Gestalt therapy focuses on awareness of present sensory experiences and taking responsibility for one's actions. The goal is for clients to become aware of how they interact with the world and make different choices. Change occurs when clients embrace who they are rather than trying to change. Therapists use techniques like language exercises, experiments, and dream work to help clients increase self-awareness and regulate their experiences in a way that feels right for them.

1. Practice of Gestalt Therapy
Introduction
*Gestalt therapy was founded in the 1940’s by the psychologists and
creative psychologists Frederick and Laura perls.
*Focus on immediate perceptual and sensory experience
*Goal is for the client to become aware of what he is doing and how
he is doing it rather than concentrating one the why.
*Gestalt therapy is a humanistic or existential approch to counselling
psychotherapy

2. The goal of Gestalt Therapy
• Awareness of how one is in the world enables
free choices.
• Take responsibility for how they are in the
world ,which is usually both painful and an
exciting process
• Acknowledge how they respond, what
contributes to respond and that they can take
responsibility to do things differently.

3. Theroy of change
• Gestalt therapy based on a paradoxical theory
of change by Beisser,A.(1970).
• The Gestalt theory of change maintains that
change occurs when the person become who
they are, not when they try to become who
they are not.
• Change based on the reality of human
existence

4. Dealing with unfinished business
• Unfinished business may interfere with the
person’s full contact with self, others and
around them.
• Gestalt therapy, experience is valued as more
important than simply acquiring intellectual
understanding.
• Create ability to ‘form clear figures’ and aware
of our needs in the present

5. Employing techniques in the service of
awareness
• Therapeutic core of Gestalt therpy is
increasing awareness.
• Technique is to facilitate awareness to enable
clients to find their own direction
• The client is supported to experiment with
experience that may facilitate awareness and
create to self –regulation.

6. Language exercises
• Individual clients are encouraged to convert
impersonal language to personal languge
• Clients frequently ask questions rather make
statements.
• Take responsibility rather than blaming others
or attempting to manipulate them to take
control.
• Facilitate clients to become aware of their
body sensations and name the feelings.

7. Experimentation
• Experiment with new way of approaching a
situation or experience with a view to
increasing the awareness of a wider range of
possibilities and choices.
• Transforms talking into doing, theorising into
being fully here with all one’s imagination,
energy and excitement.

8. Working with dreams
• Dreams are royal road to uncoscious(Sigmund
Freud)
• Drawing on the wide range of techniques,
encourage clients to work on a dream until
the meaning became apparent to them.

9. Conclusion
• Gestalt therapy is potentially suitable for a
wide range of client groups.
• Depending on the experience, the level of
training and the knowledge of the therapist,
helps clients to reassess their way of being in
the world.
• To be able to manage the process ,clients
need to draw on their own resources without
undue personality fragmentation.