Gestalt Birmingham
Counselling & Psychotherapy Supervision and Training
IN BIRMINGHAM CITY CENTRE, KINGS HEATH AND ONLINE
About
Gestalt Therapy
Interconnectedness
Honest & Non-Hierarchical
Life Changing
Creative, Explorative, Compassionate
Gestalt Therapy a successful and well-evidenced humanistic and holistic approach to human living that developed in the mid 20th Century. Used within the NHS and with a large presence internationally, it takes the form of a respectful and graded engagement between client and therapist to sustain working at depth and developing the relational connection that is the basis of healing and development, growth and change.
How Gestalt Makes A Difference
Gestalt therapy is a powerful process approach to transforming the unfinished issues of the past, acknowledging losses and supporting living in the present with resourcefulness and resilience.
When Gestalt can help
Gestalt Therapy is effective both at times of crisis and when it’s become apparent that old patterns and habits are hampering living with satisfaction in the present.
Bereavement, moving home, illness, becoming a parent, starting a new job.
Compulsive or addictive behaviour, depression, stress, panic attacks, anxiety, relationship problems, fertility issues, discrimination, sexual issues/sexuality.
Coming to terms with childhood events, trauma, abuse, abandonment.
Issues of identity, belonging, diversity, meaning of life.
For psychotherapy and counselling trainees, needing ongoing therapy as a part of their training requirements.
About Gestalt Supervision
Our approach
Our supervision approach is broadly similar having both been trained with the same organisation, CSTD. We bring experience in the voluntary and public sector, from education settings, NHS Primary Care, the University sector and from our personal journeys in life.
Whilst you may have a preference as to who you work with, and we do have our own individual styles, we frequently refer people requesting supervision to each other based on our availability and specific experience.
Methodology
We find it important and useful to employ the ‘7-eyed model’ (Hawkins and Shohet ,2004) which is compatible with Gestalt theory and humanistic approaches. This supports a process approach to exploring the co-created relational fields of the client, therapist and supervisor as well as the work context.
This is a process model of supervision which enables a shift in focus as and when necessary in the awareness-raising activity which, for us, is at the heart of supervision. This approach allows for curiosity and builds trust in the working relationship between supervisee and supervisor.
We seek to ground interventions in our embodied experience and support supervisees in doing the same. Our experiences of meditation and mindfulness teaching are further supports for catching the inner experience as we work
We like to work creatively with, for example using metaphors, images or creative materials to help model some aspect of the therapeutic work being considered.
Supervision with Trainees
We encourage appropriate openness and vulnerability by being transparent to our own process and by building a working alliance with supervisees, encouraging him or her to voice their experience in the relationship. Our experience is that in this way, over time, trainee supervisees learn to trust their own phenomenology, experience less shame and bring their experience forward with curiosity.
The support aspect of supervision often needs to be figural, but we also encourage trainee supervisees to use their personal therapy where this is necessary. We listen to recordings, suggest appropriate reading and support academic assignments as necessary.
Workshops & Training
TBC
Get in touch
All enquires are usually answered within 24 hours, and all contact is strictly confidential and uses secure phone and email services.
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