Gestalt Psychotherapy, founded by Fritz Perls, is a present-oriented therapy that emphasizes
personal responsibility and focuses on the individual’s experience in the present moment. Unlike
many psychotherapeutic approaches, the therapist is not an “expert” prescribing scripted
treatments. Instead, the therapist helps clients understanding how their repetitive ways of
thinking, feeling, sensing, and communicating are getting in the way of what they want in life.
As clients become more aware of what they are experiencing in the moment, they can more
easily meet their needs, authentically relate, resolve past conflicts, unmask, and developed
relationships based on love.
What Does Gestalt Psychotherapy Address? How Is It Beneficial?
Gestalt Psychotherapy can address all adaptations, better known as “disorders,” in the DSM-5, to
the human condition. It is particularly helpful for people experiencing anxiety, dread, executive
function challenges, loneliness, separateness, loneliness, autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and other
manifestations of neurodivergence. Frequently, people who are creative and spiritually curious
tend to benefit from Gestalt Psychotherapy because they are seeking solutions beyond the mind.
Simply put, such folks can have the preexisting scaffolding to more readily embody their
emergent feelings, sensations, and needs.
Gestalt Psychotherapy is for anyone invested in healing themselves in the present moment.
Together, we will facilitate awareness of what you are doing to meet your needs through
experiments. Such experiments are designed to move from one possibility of meeting your
needs to many.
