Feb 28, 2025 | gestalt therapy, psychotherapy
When the principles of gestalt therapy are brought into a group setting, the potential for transformation increases exponentially. The present-centered approach of gestalt is akin to a relational meditation, which allows for a client’s delusions, misbeliefs, and...
Feb 27, 2025 | gestalt therapy, psychotherapy
Gestalt therapy is a body-based approach to counseling that offers mindful attunement to the here and now. As the first approach to counseling that honored the wisdom of the inner mind-body connection, gestalt is a highly intuitive system of psychotherapy. Recognizing...
Feb 25, 2025 | gestalt therapy
Gestalt therapy is a mindfulness-based, transpersonal therapy theory that is based in holism, where we honor the wholeness of a client and do not try to reduce them down into distinct “parts.” As we stay in the present moment, here and now with a client, we attune to...
Feb 24, 2025 | gestalt therapy
by Harmony Kwiker | Blog Finding your wording and language as a gestalt therapist can take some time. Discovering how to allow your authentic engagement, awake awareness, and present moment centeredness to be reflected in the words you use is a process of trial and...
Feb 18, 2025 | gestalt therapy, transpersonal counseling
by Harmony Kwiker | Blog As human beings, therapists have feelings and thoughts while sitting with clients. Sometimes those thoughts and feelings seem personal. When a therapist puts their feelings onto a client, the therapist is experiencing countertransference. In...
Feb 11, 2025 | gestalt therapy, nervous system, psychotherapy, transpersonal counseling
Our nervous system is made up of a profoundly intricate network of nerves that carry electrical impulses to various cells, tissues, and organs throughout the body. The way we receive and process information from the environment influences how we feel in our...