Gestalt Therapy
Learn Gestalt Therapy techniques to improve your mental health and empower clients. This comprehensive course covers theory, techniques, and practical exercises. Suitable for mental health professionals, psychology students, and individuals seeking personal growth. Earn an accredited certificate upon completion.
What you’ll learn
- Gestalt psychotherapy
- Counselling and therapy skills
- Empowering clients to develop support and resources to improve their lives
- Gestalt’s model of problems, personal experience and change
- Gestalt therapy techniques
- Applying Gestalt to a range of problems including anxiety, depression, relationships and more
Gestalt Therapy is a form of counselling focused on a person’s here-and-now experience. By helping people engage with their experience, their feelings, and the people around them, Gestalt Therapy empowers clients to find solutions and solve emotional problems.
This course is suitable for professionals looking to add Gestalt psychotherapy to their repertoire, psychology students looking to learn the Gestalt counselling model, or anyone looking to apply Gestalt techniques to improve their wellbeing.
What we will cover on the course:
What Gestalt Therapy is and how it works
Step-by-step how to do Gestalt Therapy
How to understand a client’s problems in the context of their situation
Why we withdraw from our feelings and other people, and what to do about it
Gestalt techniques including awareness, experiments, unfinished business and chairwork
Building a strong therapeutic relationship with clients
We will start with a complete introduction to Gestalt theory, including all of the core principles: contact, creative adjustment, awareness, paradoxical theory of change and unfinished business. We’ll cover field theory (understanding a client’s situation), how we become disconnected from our experience (interruptions to contact) before moving on to breaking down each technique used in Gestalt Therapy, building a relationship with the client and step-by-step what therapy looks like.
We’ll then apply Gestalt Therapy to a range of problems including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship problems, substance use and more so you can see examples of how to use Gestalt Therapy to help clients.
The course comes with a comprehensive handbook as well as practical exercises to allow you to try out Gestalt techniques for yourself. On completing the course, you will earn a certificate accredited by the International Association of Therapists.
Who this course is for:
- Mental health professionals looking to introduce Gestalt Therapy
- Psychology students looking to learn the Gestalt Therapy model
- Individuals looking to improve their own mental health
