Gestalt Therapy is about coming home to your core self
Gestalt is a talk-based psychotherapy that centres agency in the present moment. It helps you notice how you are living, relating, and responding right now, so new possibilities can emerge. It’s deeply relational and asks you to notice what’s unfolding in your inner and outer world through your thoughts, feelings, sensations, and relational patterns. It honours the way people are shaped by their environments, cultures, relationships, identities, sexualities and bodies. It understands that we don’t exist in isolation, but in ongoing relation with others, our environment, our histories, and the world around us. 

With the understanding that ‘the body keeps the score’, Gestalt therapy also gently attends to sensation, breath, posture, and emotional residue, often revealing what words alone can’t reach. It also recognises that the body remembers. Through somatic inquiry, Gestalt Therapy listens for what may be held beneath, hidden in old stories and memories - instead allowing them to be integrated and transformed. 

How many sessions should I commit to?

Sometimes a single therapy session can help resolve an immediate issue that’s keeping you stuck. At other times, three to five sessions may be needed to work with deeper relational patterns or long-held trauma. There is no quick fix for understanding a lifetime of experiences, which is why committing to a block of sessions often offers the most meaningful and lasting progress.

What is Eco Therapy?

Gestalt Therapy has gained considerable traction with Eco Therapy, where a client can choose to be held by nature and experience the support of the land. In addition to studio based sessions, Eco Therapy (held outdoors), is also an option upon special request.

Ecotherapy is a therapeutic approach that recognises the healing relationship between humans and the natural world. It invites people to reconnect with nature and contemplate the interconnectedness we all share with the land, the elements and its creatures. By engaging with natural environments, ecotherapy can reduce stress, anxiety, and depression, while increasing serotonin levels resulting in feelings of calm and a deeper connection to ones lifeforce and wellbeing. It helps regulate the nervous system, restore a sense of balance, and remind people they are part of something larger than themselves. Ecotherapy is often used as an adjunct to regular therapy as a way to shake things up, introducing nature as the third participant in the healing triad, (the client, therapist, and nature) and especially helpful for those feeling overwhelmed, disconnected, or stuck in cycles of rumination.