Gestalt Therapy Professional Practice Toolkit
Gestalt interventions you can bring into session right away, with guidance on when and how to use them.
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Free tools you can bring into your work with clients tomorrow, and articles on what Gestalt looks like in session today. Open to clinicians in the U.S. and abroad.
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Tools you can use tomorrow.
5-Minute Inner Child Check-In Script
A short check-in to try with your clients, or on yourself first.
Get the scriptThe Insight-Action Gap
For the clients who understand their patterns perfectly but still can’t change them.
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Gestalt in practice
More than techniques: a way into the here and now.
Gestalt helps clients go beyond talking about their patterns to actually experiencing them, right here, in the room. When a client stays with what they feel in the present, in their body, their emotions and the relationship with you, the work reaches the root of the pattern instead of circling around it. That’s what creates change that’s organic and lasting, because it comes from the client’s own experience, not from advice or insight alone.
In session01
From explaining to experiencing
“What’s happening for you right now?”
The client stops justifying the feeling and starts describing it, right here.
In session02
From the story to the body
“Where do you feel that in your body?”
We notice where it lives, the tight chest or the held breath, and point it out. The goal is awareness, and sitting with it.
In session03
From resistance to protection
“What is this part protecting you from?”
Defenses become information to honor and explore, not walls to push through.
In session04
From the past to the present
“What would you say to them, right now?”
We don’t go back to the past. We bring the past into the present, where unfinished business can finally be resolved.
In session05
From technique to experiment
“Would you be willing to try something?”
There’s no script to follow. Each intervention is created in the moment, for the client in front of you. The empty chair and guided fantasy are just two of many ways in.
In session06
From insight to integration
“What’s different for you now?”
Change that comes from the client’s own experience, not from advice, is the kind that lasts.
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What is Gestalt therapy?
In this short video, I explain what Gestalt therapy is and how it works in session.
Read the article: What is Gestalt Therapy?
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From the blog
Writing on the work, and the clinician doing it.
Articles on Gestalt in practice, the cases that get stuck, and what this work asks of us as therapists. Some are written with clients in mind, so feel free to share them with yours.
The Unfinished Conversation: What Was Never Said
Some conversations linger long after the words stop.
Read moreProfessional Gestalt Group Consultation
There’s a very specific kind of frustration that most therapists know well, even if they do not always say it out loud.
Read moreWhen Therapists Need Therapy
There’s a moment many therapists don’t talk about openly.
Read moreWhy Imposter Syndrome in Therapists Requires More Than Insight
Imposter syndrome shows up in therapy rooms a lot more than people expect, even for clinicians who have been at it for years, have solid training, and consistently see clients improve.
Read moreTherapist Mirror Moment: Why Therapists Can Only Guide Clients as Deep as They’ve Gone Themselves
You can’t guide someone into places you refuse to enter.
Read more5 Signs of Therapist Burnout (And What to Do About It)
I’m going to say something I didn’t used to say out loud.
Read moreGrief Without Funeral: No Goodbye or Closure
The pandemic took plenty from all of us.
Read moreBeyond Catharsis: The Empty Chair Technique for True Resolution
The Empty Chair technique in Gestalt Therapy can move clients from simply recognizing their unhealthy patterns to truly transforming them.
Read moreWhat is Gestalt Therapy?
During my clinical psychology internship in Peru, I experienced a turning point that reshaped everything I thought I knew about therapeutic change.
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