Certification in Gestalt Psychotherapy- Fully Accredited

Explore Gestalt therapy techniques through tailored experiments, role plays, and homework that foster self awareness and build social confidence for clients with social anxiety.

Gestalt therapists use language to promote change, emphasizing present tense awareness, using I statements to encourage ownership of words, feelings, thoughts, and actions, with collaboration through statements over questions.

Practice the empty chair technique from gestalt psychotherapy, using two chairs to enact conflicts between a person and others or between parts of the self, then switch and express feelings.

Explore the gestalt top dog and underdog technique using the empty chair to enact conflicting viewpoints, differentiate the top dog and underdog, and work toward balance through dialogue.

Gestalt dream work promotes integration by exploring projections and the meaning of each dream role. Therapists guide clients to write details and enact parts in dialogue to clarify emotions.

Gestalt therapy uses guided fantasy and imagery to boost self-awareness and resolve unresolved issues, guiding clients through slow-motion visualization to identify thoughts, emotions, and sensations.

Explore how Gestalt therapy uses the body as a communication tool, focusing on emotional location, identification, and repetition and exaggeration to enhance awareness of feelings and bodily experiences.

Build rapport to connect therapist and client, enabling active listening, empathy, and a safe, nonjudgmental environment for trust and growth.

Deliberate silence in counselling creates space for clients to share difficulties and process feelings, gaining clarity. It validates clients and lets the counselor gain insight while controlling pace and content.

Reflect back the client's words accurately, focusing on voice, feelings, and body language. Use reflection to clarify the counselor’s understanding and strengthen the bond within the client’s frame of reference.

Paraphrasing in Gestalt psychotherapy demonstrates attentive listening, validating clients by reflecting essential points, inviting accurate feedback, and letting clients hear the power of their own words to build empathy.

Explore Gestalt psychotherapy approaches to stress, anxiety, and depression, examining coping dynamics and symptoms, and applying techniques like the empty chair, fantasy, and body movement observation.

Gestalt psychotherapy identifies root causes of substance abuse with a holistic approach to addiction and reframes negative self-talk to resist drugs or alcohol.

Apply Gestalt psychotherapy to eating disorders by fostering present-moment awareness and body observation, using top dog and underdog techniques, while guiding clients toward responsibility and unconditional acceptance.

Gestalt therapy helps clients reclaim personal power through present awareness and bodily signals, using empty chair, fantasy, and visualization to relive and reprocess memories of traumatic events.