Next steps
After contacting me, we will arrange an appointment for a first interview. During this first meeting, we will explore your goals and discuss what type of help is best suited to your needs. If you feel comfortable and wish to continue working together, we will plan future appointments. Sessions are usually held weekly though the interval is often extended as the therapy progresses. Therapy is concluded when your goals are met or once you feel confident to continue your journey on your own.
Confidentiality
Creating a safe space where you can express yourself openly is key to psychotherapy. Anything discussed is confidential and protected by Austrian confidentiality laws.
My method
Integrative gestalt is a certified psychotherapy method well suited to a wide range of psychological, psycho-social and psycho-somatic complaints.
Integrative gestalt is a relational approach. That is, the quality of the relationship between client and therapist lies at the heart of the method as it is from meaningful and authentic connection that we emerge as individuals. Gestalt therapy is a respectful encounter with oneself and one another. The creative ways of engaging in and avoiding the encounter are a central focus.
Integrative Gestalt is phenomenological and grounded in the here and now. Gestalt therapists take the position that individuals can best learn about themselves by exploring the phenomena which emerge when interacting with others and the environment. The method is holistic and takes into consideration all facets of bodily experience including cognition and beliefs, imagination and dreams, emotions and feelings, physical sensations and muscular tension, movement and expression. Because our subjective experience is shaped by the interplay between the self and the environment, both the subjective experience and the situation of the client are given importance.
Integrative Gestalt therapy regards awareness as a central component of the healing process. By focusing on the experience of the here and now, unresolved situations and unintegrated parts of the self, such as repressed thoughts and emotions, which impact a person's well-being, can be made aware. New ways of taking responsibility for oneself can thereby be developed and a sense of wholeness and vitality restored. Whether the phenomena belong to the present, or echo out from the past, their effects are sought to be resolved in the here and now.
Gestalt therapy is experimental and creative. As gestalt therapy focuses on the here and now, therapy sessions are not confined to conversation. Sessions can be active and creative as it is in doing that we are able to make new experiences, discover ourselves, and create new possibilities. It is through active engagement with what we discover about ourselves, that we can create, sculpt and become who we are.
The method has a number of roots including psychoanalysis, existentialism, phenomenology, field theory, gestalt psychology and eastern philosophy.
Please feel free to contact me with any questions.