Gestalt Therapy is an approach to mental wellness that helps people resolve past conflicts and become more present. When you go beyond the past, you can find peace in the present and enrich your interactions with the environment around you.
It is about facilitating clients to integrate themselves as whole persons, in align with the body, mind and emotions and in congruence with the outer world. Thus, help restore balance in their environment.
Awareness: Awareness is one of the most important elements in Gestalt Therapy as it is seen as a “hallmark of the healthy person and a goal of treatment” (Seligman, 2006). When individuals are “aware”, they are able to self-regulate in their environment. People can lack awareness because of preoccupation with one’s past, fantasies, flaws and strengths that the individual becomes unaware of the whole picture and low self-esteem.
There are three ways people may achieve awareness through therapy:
Here and now: This is the individual living in and being conscious at the present moment rather than worrying about the past or the future.
The therapist’s role is to assist clients in developing their own self-awareness of how they are in the present moment. This will therefore allow them to rectify issues affecting his or her life. A psychologically healthy person is someone who is self-regulating through the changes in life and has developed a sense of “wholeness” between mind and body.
Use of verbal and non-verbal communication: In fact, the nonverbal communication is seen to provide more information about the real essence of the person. A Gestalt Therapist also focuses on the client’s body language such as the client’s posture, movements, gestures, voice, and hesitations as the body language is considered to be reflective of what the client is going through at that point in time.
Empty Chair Technique: The empty chair technique is a “method of facilitating the role-taking dialogue between the patient and others or between parts of the patient’s personality. In the process, emotions and conflicts are evoked, impasses may be brought about and resolved, and awareness and integration of polarities may develop — polarities or splits within the patient, between the patient and other persons, or between the patients’ wants and the social norms and it’s resolved through the dialogues.
Issues that can be addressed are:
Dr Sharmila Dhobale is Certified Gestalt and NLP Therapist in Mumbai from Anil Thomas Gestalt and Anil Thomas NLP
She is also Qualified in REBT, Family Constellation, Transpersonal Regression, and Inner Child Work Therapist in Mumbai. She is also a Clinical hypnotherapist in Mumbai. She has been conducting workshops on various subjects of her forte since 30 years in the corporate, educational, and public sectors addressing their physical, mental, and emotional issues. She incorporates all the knowledge and experience of diverse fields and the scientific approach of Spirituality and Metaphysics for the benefit of her client’s lives’ while creating stability and astonishing growth.
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