What is Gestalt therapy? | Types of therapy We asked BACP Accredited Member Katerina Georgiou what Gestalt therapy is and how it can help

What is Gestalt therapy?

Gestalt therapist and BACP member Katerina Georgiou presents the modality in this article.

How would you answer the questions in the article if asked today?

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How do you engage with the 'what' and 'how' over the 'why' in your practice?

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Brief Gestalt Therapy

Brief Gestalt Therapy
- Gaie Houston

Houston demonstrates how the Gestalt approach is well-suited to brief work, and outlines practical strategies that can be used by clinicians for effective brief therapy.

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📢 UKAGP Residential Retreat 2026
📍 EarthSpirit Centre, Somerset
📅 30 July – 2 August 2026

The theme this year is 'Navigating Safety and Fear in a Shifting Relational Field'.

What feeling comes up first when you hear retreat?

Booking: ukagp.org/events/

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GESTALT LITERATURE

L Jacobs explores the therapist as 'other', and how a therapist's own philosophy influences their therapeutic interventions. She considers how genuine 'relatedness' can contribute to our well-being.

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How do you get creative or incorporate movement in your practice?

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AGM and Residential Conference 2026 — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners

📢 UKAGP Residential Retreat 2026
📅 30 July – 2 August 2026
📍 Earth Spirit Centre

Tickets will be released soon! This year will be a three-night retreat at Earth Spirit in Glastonbury.

Info: www.ukagp.org.uk/agm-and-resi...

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In this 'Humans of Gestalt' dialogue, Giselle Ruzany discusses her identity through dance, motherhood, embodiment and considers her relationship with Gestalt.

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Gestalt Literature
Transcript of lecture with Lynne Jacobs

Lynne Jacobs outlines and explores core notions about the I-Thou relationship in Gestalt.

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How does this quote resonate with you? Do you feel like you're making art in your practice?

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Artist Residency — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners A week of embodied, reflective making at Malvern House, Nottingham (3-9 June 2026), offering artists and creatives time, space, and community to explore presence, awareness, and creative process withi...

📢 Presence & Process: Artist Residency
📅 3-9 June 2026
📍Malvern House, Nottingham, UK

Explore presence, awareness, and creative process in a supportive, dialogic environment.

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Gestalt Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques Gestalt therapy offers a present-focused, relational approach, central to which is the fundamental belief that the client knows the best way of adjusting to their situation. This new edition of Gestal...

Gestalt Therapy - 100 Key Points and Techniques

Dave Mann’s book is essential for trainees & qualified practitioners, providing a comprehensive guide that covers 100 key points & techniques.

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As we begin a new week and a new month, how does this land with you?

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Miriam Grace: Myth, Maturity, Mid-life and Meaning — UK Association for Gestalt Practitioners 2024 - 2025 was the sixth winter of my exploratory women’s wintering group. I use my experience as a therapist but this isn’t a therapy group. Most of the participants have had therapy in their lives ...

Miriam Grace: Myth, Maturity, Mid-life and Meaning

Psychotherapist Miriam Grace explores seasonal, aging and feminine cycles within a women’s wintering group.

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Läuterung

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In his chapter 'Gestalt Therapy Theory of Change', Yontef questions how Gestalt therapy can facilitate healing rather than deterioration in the face of inevitable change.

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What does 'trying' mean to you as a practitioner, both in your practice and outside of it?

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Humans of #Gestalt brings us interviews with Gestaltists from around the world.

Greta joins from her home in Sweden and discusses what brought her to the Gestalt world.

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Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Per… A seminal book that placed the study of human behaviour…

📚 Gestalt Therapy: Excitement and Growth in the Human Personality 📖

Perls, Hefferline & Goodman introduce the Gestalt modality, exploring how experience begins at the contact boundary and what might support or block growth.

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What does creativity mean for you? How does it show up in your practice?

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Happy new year, everyone! We want to thank our members for all their support in 2025.

We look forward to seeing what 2026 brings!

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#ChangeYourStory
#DailyTherapyThought
#GestaltTherapy
#HealingThroughAwareness
#ReflectReconnectRenew
#TherapyInWestWales
#MentalHealthAwareness
#YouAreNotAlone

#ChangeYourStory
#DailyTherapyThought
#GestaltTherapy
#HealingThroughAwareness
#ReflectReconnectRenew
#TherapyInWestWales
#MentalHealthAwareness
#YouAreNotAlone

#ChangeYourStory
#DailyTherapyThought
#GestaltTherapy
#HealingThroughAwareness
#ReflectReconnectRenew
#TherapyInWestWales
#MentalHealthAwareness
#YouAreNotAlone

Dr. Lynne Jacobs and Annie Stopford explore how Gestalt and contemporary psychoanalysis could be integrated, challenging the idea that the two approaches are incompatible.

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#ChangeYourStory
#DailyTherapyThought
#GestaltTherapy
#HealingThroughAwareness
#ReflectReconnectRenew
#TherapyInWestWales
#MentalHealthAwareness
#YouAreNotAlone

#ChangeYourStory
#DailyTherapyThought
#GestaltTherapy
#HealingThroughAwareness
#ReflectReconnectRenew
#TherapyInWestWales
#MentalHealthAwareness
#YouAreNotAlone

#ChangeYourStory
#DailyTherapyThought
#GestaltTherapy
#HealingThroughAwareness
#ReflectReconnectRenew
#TherapyInWestWales
#MentalHealthAwareness
#YouAreNotAlone

#ChangeYourStory
#DailyTherapyThought
#GestaltTherapy
#HealingThroughAwareness
#ReflectReconnectRenew
#TherapyInWestWales
#MentalHealthAwareness
#YouAreNotAlone

Our lived experiences expand the pool we draw to meet the world with greater depth and flexibility. What experiences have most shaped your practice?

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