Goal of Gestalt Therapy

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The ultimate aim of Gestalt therapy is to assist the client in restoring (or discovering) his/her own natural ability to self-regulate as an organism and have successful and fulfilling contact with others (environmental others), as well as with disowned aspects of oneself (internal others). That allows one to be able to cope creatively with the events of one’s life and to pursue those goals which seem good and desirable to oneself. Through awareness of and experimentation with bodily sensations, emotional responses, desires, and cognitive assumptions, your range of choices about how you live their lives, especially how you engage with others and themselves, will be enhanced. The question of foremost interest is HOW a person is creating his/her life in a certain way not WHY they came to be as they are. Accepting someone’s experiential validity is key rather than manipulating occurrences and outcome.