
Joseph:
I would describe myself as utilising a person-centred, therapist-led, way of working. I am very much informed by Gestalt principles of psychotherapy.
Simply put, you are responsible for showing up to best of your ability, and deciding what it is you’d like to explore with me. I, on the other hand, am responsible for really listening, asking questions, and being genuinely curious about you and your experience. I am also responsible for supporting you and being with you as you are ‘doing the work’.
If you and I are both performing our respective roles honestly, the ideal situation would be that you might begin to develop and grow in your awareness about who you are, how you relate to others, and the world around you in general. This promotes insight, and has the potential to open the door to real and meaningful change in your life.
Olga:
My primary intention as a therapist is to offer a space wherein you feel seen and heard, and with time, safe to express whatever it is that needs to be expressed or explored.
I intend to offer a space where you do not feel judged, but rather, supported in your explorations of your life, relationships, and everything that surrounds and impacts these.
I sit with curiosity about your lived experience, as you perceive it. I listen. And where appropriate, I ask questions, offer experiments, or thought-experiments, that might expand or respectfully challenge. There is an intention to all of my interventions. I am here to support you in your self-exploration.
Informed largely, but not solely, by the tenets of Gestalt psychotherapy, I intend to be with you as you explore your past and/or immediate situations, and through these explorations, expand your understanding of Self.
Where appropriate, I find the useage of parts-work to be a highly effective tool in my practice .
Within the therapeutic relationship, I position myself as a fellow human being, and draw on both evidence-based practice, as well as my own lived-experience.