Translated from German, the word ‘Gestalt’ implies ‘wholeness’, or if used as a verb, ‘to make whole’.

Gestalt psychotherapy provides a space for a holistic exploration of the client’s experience in the moment, authentic living, and human relating.

Gestalt psychotherapy has a ‘here and now’ focus on the clients’ awareness of their world and relationships with others. Simultaneously, Gestalt psychotherapy is sensitive to the ways past experience, and hopes and fears for the future, may be organising the current experience.

Gestalt psychotherapy promotes self-awareness and holds that therapeutic change occurs through an authentic meeting with another. 

Gestalt psychotherapy offers the opportunity for a healing experience through a meeting and a dialogue between the client and the therapist.

Source: Gestalt Therapy Australia