Gestalt
Gestalt therapy focuses on the immediate here and now and explores how the past affects and influences how you’re feeling in this moment rather than how you felt back then. Its focus is to raise your immediate awareness of how you are, while giving you flexibility to experiment with different ways of responding. Gestalt is based on the principle that everyone is a whole – made up of mind, body and soul – and draws on the philosophical idea that the whole is other than the sum of its parts. It emphasises that to fully understand people you have to look at their current situation as they experience it.
We might focus on where you feel certain emotions in your body, or on giving voice to physical sensations in the body to reveal more understanding of underlying emotional experiences. It can be a supportive therapy if you grew up with a lot of rules around authority. It's a liberating approach in that it doesn't place more moral value on one emotion than another i.e it’s ok to explore anger, envy, rage, etc without judgment, all emotions are considered valid and important, and in fact these can guide us to a deeper understanding and freedom.
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