The aim of Gestalt therapy is to trigger man’s potential for development and empower his or her beneficial functioning in their environment by
increasing their awareness of the self, their desires, needs, emotions, as well as of what interrupts contact with their surroundings.
The healing factor in Gestalt therapy is the client’s contact with the therapist, a relationship based on trust.
Gestalt approach is:
phenomenological, as it concentrates on how reality is perceived and experienced,
existential, as it assumes the fact that one is constantly in the process of formation,
relational, as it is based on the client- therapist relationship,
experiential, as it is based on the client’s experience in therapy session,
holistic, as it does not fragment client’s experience, but treats it as a whole