Miguel Islas
Gestalt Therapy as a practice of the present and the human relationship
Therapy is not a doctor’s office or a physical space, but the creation of a unique relationship where a person can find the support and accompanying in another person, who is trained and prepared to accompany and support in moments of emotional, relational, corporal or psychological difficulties, in order to find together the solution that is not easily accessible by being alone or with the usual supports.
The problems we go through, although we live them in our own flesh, are not generated in isolation, they emerge in relational fields. Therefore, gestalt therapy provides a safe relational space where you can recreate past experiences and explore functional healing possibilities for the painful moments that are experienced.
For the Gestalt therapist, the individual who gets into the session room is not a "sick person" but a human being who suffers and becomes the painful voice that shows environments and relational forms that have become dysfunctional.
The therapist offers his experience, his listening and, above all, his human presence not only to walk beside the patient, who suffers and endures, but also to accompany the human being who questions himself and seeks answers to his existential and daily questions of personal or relational importance.
Gestalt Therapy focuses on the experience, present in each session of the process. In each session we assess each aspect of the experience by not only focusing on the "why" but on the "how", in other words, we assess the experience as it is felt in the body right here right now, and without losing the relational contexts where all experiences are created. You must believe in the constant updating possibility that inhabits each human being.
Contemporary Gestalt Therapy conceives that the human experience is integrated by diverse dimensions, meaning, the corporeal, the emotional, the spiritual, the psychological, the relational and the situational aspect, for that reason we work on all these facets without privileging only one, but allowing the process to invite us to walk along them as convergent paths that lead us in one way and another to the personal and relational well-being.
PSYCHOTHERAPIST IN SOMATIC DEVELOPMENT
GESTALT PSYCHOTHERAPIST
SOMATIC MOVEMENT EDUCATOR