Transpersonal Therapy Blog
Therapist Office Essentials: The Best Chairs and Comfort Gear for Long Days
by Harmony Kwiker, LPC, ACS The Best Therapy Chair In the early days of my practice, I picked my therapy chairs based on what looked nice and fit my budget. But long days of sitting with clients quickly took a toll on my neck and lower back. I learned the hard way...
Established in the Self: Ayurveda and the Healing Power of Presence
by Nichole Jones, MA, LPC Ayurveda is one of the oldest systems of health and self-understanding from India (Lad, 2002). The word means "the science of life": ayur means life and veda means knowledge. It is a framework for understanding your own tendencies and...
Identifying Contact Boundary Disturbances in a Gestalt Therapy Session
by Harmony Kwiker In Gestalt case conceptualization, understanding contact boundary disturbances shifts your perspective from what a client is suffering from to how they are actively interrupting their own vitality and relationships. Instead of reducing a client to a...
How Contact Boundary Disturbances Live Within One Incomplete Situation
by Harmony Kwiker Within Gestalt therapy, human experience is understood as a living process of sensation, awareness, contact, response, and integration (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951). Needs emerge from the background of experience, move into awareness, seek...
Working with Confluence: Contact Boundary Disturbances and Differentiation in Gestalt Therapy
by Harmony Kwiker Contact boundary disturbances within Gestalt therapy describe the habitual ways a person organizes closeness, vulnerability, differentiation, and relationship at the boundary between self and environment (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951). The...
Working with Retroflection: Contact Boundary Disturbances and Turning Energy Against the Self
by Harmony Kwiker Contact boundary disturbances within Gestalt therapy describe the habitual ways a person organizes closeness, protection, vulnerability, and relationship at the boundary between self and environment (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951). The...
Working with Projection: Contact Boundary Disturbances and Reclaiming the Disowned Self
by Harmony Kwiker The contact boundary is the living edge where self meets other, where experience is exchanged, and where we sense both our separateness and our connection. Healthy contact allows for movement, responsiveness, and awareness. Contact boundary...
Working with Introjection: Contact Boundary Disturbances and the Return to Self
by Harmony Kwiker Within Gestalt therapy, contact boundary disturbances describe the ways contact is interrupted, shaped, or organized at the boundary between self and environment (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951). These disturbances are adaptive processes that...
Working with Deflection: Contact Boundary Disturbances in Gestalt Therapy
by Harmony Kwiker Within Gestalt therapy, contact boundary disturbances describe the ways contact is interrupted, shaped, or organized at the boundary between self and environment (Perls, Hefferline, & Goodman, 1951). These disturbances are adaptive processes that...
What Are Contact Boundary Disturbances in Gestalt Therapy?
In Gestalt therapy, contact is the living process of meeting what is here. It is how we experience ourselves, how we experience another, and how we participate in the relational field. Contact is not simply being in proximity to someone. It is not conversation alone....
How to Heal Your Attachment System
by Harmony Kwiker When we choose to be in relationship, whether we are conscious of it or not, we are entering into something sacred. We are stepping into a living field where our nervous system meets another’s. And in that meeting, we are shaping one another. We are...
Embodied Therapy Techniques for Trauma Recovery (for Practitioners)
by Harmony Kwiker Embodied therapy invites us to work with what is happening in real time, within the body, where trauma is actively held and reorganized. Rather Embodied therapy invites us to meet trauma where it is actively organized, within the body, within the...