Question

Conversation between a counsellor and a client having trauma using gestalt therapy

Answer 1

Definition

Gestalt therapy is a complex psychological system that stresses the development of client self-awareness and personal responsibility.

Purpose

The goal of Gestalt therapy is to raise clients' awareness regarding how they function in their environment (with family, at work, school, friends). The focus of therapy is more on what is happening (the moment-to-moment process) than what is being discussed (the content). Awareness is being alert to what are the most important events in clients' lives and their environment with full sensorimotor, emotional, cognitive, and energy support. Support is defined as anything that makes contact with or withdrawal from with the environment possible, including energy, body support, breathing, information, concern for others,