What is Gestalt Therapy?

What is Gestalt Therapy?
Gestalt therapy is a form of humanistic psychotherapy developed in the 1940s by Fritz and Laura Perls.
It integrates influences from psychoanalysis, body awareness, existential philosophy, and field theory.

At its core is the here and now:
Rather than striving to become who we “should” be, we turn toward what is present right now — thoughts, feelings, body sensations, and inner images.

Key elements of Gestalt therapy include:

• Contact: We grow and heal by meeting ourselves, others, and our environment.
• Wholeness: Body, mind, and emotions are seen as inseparable.
• Phenomenology: Instead of analyzing or interpreting, we explore how experience unfolds in the present moment.
• Self-responsibility: We learn to take our own experience seriously and expand our capacity to choose.

Gestalt therapy invites you to gently take off masks, make new contact experiences, and discover your inner resources.
My practice is designed to feel welcoming and safe — including for people who perceive and process the world differently, such as neurodivergent adults.
Gestalt work is not about “fixing” what’s broken; it’s an invitation to live more fully, authentically, and with greater agency.