GESTALT Coaching

The client is regarded from the start to be functioning as a whole, healthy, and resourceful entity with respect to environmental conditions. This attitude differentiates the activity of coaching from that of “therapy,” which traditionally construes the client to be in some manner deficient and in need of regulated remediation.

As a Gestalt coach I bring the gift of an integrated presence to the coaching encounter, where behaviour and use of self are aligned with core values and full access to emotional life. 

Gestalt coaching therefore emphasises bringing into awareness those habitual behavioural or ideational patterns that interfere with clients’ inherent capacity to meet their needs and achieve their desired goals. Without awareness, no effective action can be conceived, articulated, or taken. 

As an agent of awareness, the Gestalt coach encourages clients to pay attention to and thereby acknowledge what is true and real for them in the moment, whether emotional, ideational, or physical. 

Clients’ immediate experience is perceived as the primary opportunity for exploration, for learning, and for taking new action towards new goals.

As your coach I will help you to improve the ways you scan your internal and external environments, gather data, and make sense of that data in order to expand choices and engage in productive actions.

Experiments interrupt habitual perceptual or behavioural patterns and invite opportunity. As your coach I create “safe emergencies” that enable expanded possibilities and new choices.

Gestalt approach uses whatever occurs in the moment as the existential ground for coach and client to explore and experiment with.