Gestalt Therapy, Counselling, Mediation
Canberra ACT
'There are two primary choices in life:
to accept conditions as they exist, or to accept the responsibility for changing them.'
Denis Waitley
"The Gestalt therapist does not regard a client as "an object to be manipulated into health" but as a subject possessing intrinsic dignity and value. This profoundly affects the attitude with which a Gestalt therapist meets a client: her clear intention is one of being-with the client in ways which will permit him to learn about himself, to experiment creatively with his experiences, and to acquire habits of wholeness. She does not come to the meeting with a fixed agenda, but rather attends and supports the client as he discovers how he wants to-be-in-the-world." Sylvia Crocker.
My areas of special interest & expertise include these services
I offer
- Art Therapy
- Dreamwork
- Psychotherapy
- Relationship Therapy
- Sandplay and Symbol Work
Service
- Sexuality Counselling
- Recovery Support work
Concerns or issues that you may have & that I enjoy working with
- Abuse
- Addiction
- Alcohol abuse
- Anger and anger management
- Anxiety
- Are you dying? Choose how to die with openess, acceptance and integrity
- Bereavement
- Codependency
- Compulsive Behaviours
- Creative blocks
- Drug dependency
- Gender identity
- Grief & loss
- Intimacy
- Relationship
- Sexuality
- Shame
- Trauma
Kind
- Alternative Relationships
- Clinical Supervision
- Counselling for Therapists
- Couples Counselling
- Families (individual and group)
- Gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, queer and heterosexual
- Group Work
- Individual Therapy
- Life Coaching
- Marriage Therapy
- Personal Development
- Poly relationships
- Therapists
- Traditional
- 12 Step/ Recovery
Practice
- Gestalt Psychotherapy
- Professional short and long term counselling
Therapy Options in Canberra ACT.
- Office visits
- Home visits
- After hours
- Week ends
- Web or skype visits
- Walk and talk environmental sessions. Around Mt Ainslie, Canberra or on one of Cairns beautiful rainforest, lake, beach or river trails. Therapy of this nature has added dimensions of addressing exercise, embodied experience of connecting on a relational level with myself and the environment. It assists in connecting with your senses and making sense of yourself.
GANZ + PACFA member.
ABN 1692 1863991
Medicare provider number: 1317621F
My office is in Canberra ACT .
What is Gestalt? (GANZ website definition)
Gestalt therapy is a growth-oriented, contextual and relational approach to working with people. The Gestalt approach embraces a person's physical, psychological, intellectual, emotional, interpersonal and spiritual experience in a holistic way. Each of these interconnected aspects of living is considered inseparable from a person's environment, history and culture.
A Well Lived Life
From a Gestalt perspective a well-lived life is grounded in a person's awareness of how they live their life and conduct their relationships, in the present, within their life space. From this perspective, Gestalt therapy seeks to promote a person's awareness, support creative choice and encourage responsibility in a person's effort to realise a meaningful and fulfilling life.
Main philosophical underpinnings
Gestalt is based on the following approaches:
1. An existential approach:
- It is grounded in the here and now
- It emphasizes that each person is responsible for his or her own destiny
2. A phenomenological approach:
- It focuses on the client's perception of reality
- Aims to increase awareness both of self and of interconnectedness with others
- It works with the 'what is'; change results from being more fully oneself
3. A dialogical approach:
- Clients explore what and how they are thinking, feeling and doing with the therapist as an active participant in the process
4. A holistic approach:
- The wider field is taken into account; past present and future, the individual, family and culture.
- There is an emphasis on unification, re-owning all parts of self.
5. An experimental approach:
- Gestalt is not just a talk therapy; action is seen as important and clients are encouraged to try out new ways of being
- Experiments are always aimed at exploration, discovery and awareness; experiential learning is the aim rather than achieving preset outcomes
