The Gestalt Approach to Couples Therapy

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=90 BGCOLOR="#006699" TEXT="#080000" background="0bc085a3.jpg"> <div> <FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#FFFFFF" FACE="Arial" ><B>Gestalt Counseling & Training Institute</B></FONT><B>    </B><B> |     </B><A HREF="index.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gestalt Counseling Training Institute"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> back to  <A HREF="id48.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Counseling and Therapy"><U><B>Counseling and Therapy</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0bdd2e83.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="individuals.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Gestalt Approach to Individual Thera"><U>The Gestalt Approach to Individual Therapy</U></A></div> <div> <B>The Gestalt Approach to Couples Therapy</B></div> <div> <A HREF="groups.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Gestalt Approach to Group Therapy"><U>The Gestalt Approach to Group Therapy</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="hypnotherapy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hypnotherapy"><U>Hypnotherapy</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="bodyprocesses.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Reennactment and Psychodrama"><U>Reennactment and Psychodrama</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="women.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Just for Women!"><U>Just for Women!</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="art_therapy.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Gestalt Art Therapy"><U>Gestalt Art Therapy</U></A></div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=390 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" background="0be07073.jpg"> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="09eb0830.png" border=0 width="176" height="131" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>B</B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Times New Roman" ><I><B>eing deeply loved by someone gives you strength; loving someone deeply gives you courage.</B></I></FONT></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Gestalt-AnnArbor<B> </B>offers <I>on-going couple's therapy</I> and i<I>ntensive group therapeutic weekends</I> that will help your partnership gain the awareness necessary to propel you towards a higher dimension of conscious relating. </div> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>Couple's Therapy Sessions</U></B></I> </div> <div> Couples are invited to work one-on-one with a trained Gestalt therapist. Therapeutic sessions can vary from one to four hours per session. Weekend and evening appointments are available.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>Introductory Workshops for Couples </U></B></I></div> <div> Gestalt Therapy believes that the transcendence is most attainable when we access the power of NOW. This workshop utilizes the present moment as a stage for examining the complicated dynamics of intimate couple systems. Through objective observation of body movements, use of language and speech patterns, and their style of making contact, the couple is able to effectively explore their process of interaction as it occurs in the here and now. By becoming aware of the entrenched and often unconscious patterns that keep us immobilized, we can then develop the tools necessary for healing and change. This will lead to much deeper levels of expressions in love and spiritual intimacy. This workshop is highly participatory; one or two couples will be used as a demo couple. Other group members will practice the skills of witnessing and "presencing".</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>Intensive Gestalt Couples Retreats</U></B></I></div> <div> Couples' Therapeutic Weekends are limited to 4 couples per session. Intensive couples weekends includes 2 full days, usually Saturday and Sunday, with breaks for meals. </div> <div> Gestalt Therapy utilizes the present moment as a stage for examining the complicated dynamics of intimate couple systems<B>. </B>Through objective observation of the system's body movements, use of language and speech patterns, and their style of making contact, the therapist and the therapy group gives feedback on the process of interaction as it occurs in the here and now. You might say that the group watches how the couple "flows" or how they might be "stuck". It is the stuckness that manifests as anger, resentment, shame, hurt and guilt. By becoming aware of the entrenched and often unconscious patterns that keep us immobilized, we can then develop the tools necessary for healing and change.</div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <I><B>WHAT COUPLES ARE SAYING...</B></I> </div> <bR> <div> <I>"By utilizing the tools we learned, we have gained a new level of clarity and depth in our relationship."</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>"With a slight variation of body posture or a gentle reminder to be in the present moment, we can shift energy and move to the heart of the matter so quickly. We have found that this is where our deepest intimacy occurs."</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>"My husband and I were very impressed and felt very moved and honored to be active participants in the group healing process."</I></div> <bR> <div> <I>"I felt a huge block before our weekend experience. Now, our conversations and concerns are safely and freely discuss. I am now enjoying a relationship that previously seemed to have prevented me from being real." </I></div> <bR> <div> <I>"Sheree's style of facilitation is powerful and gentle, subtle yet effective. We left the weekend with a deeper level of commitment."</I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>