Gestalt Therapy

What Happens in a Gestalt Session

Gestalt sessions are alive. They move. Rather than following a linear narrative from past to present, we work with whatever is most present for you in the room. That might be a feeling in your body. A way you're holding yourself. Something that just shifted in your energy when you mentioned a particular person or memory.

I might invite you to speak directly to someone who isn't in the room, to try saying something out loud that you've never said, or to simply stay with a feeling that usually gets bypassed. These aren't tricks or techniques. They're ways of helping you have a real experience rather than just talking about one.

This work integrates naturally with somatic therapy, because the body is always part of the present moment. I draw from both in sessions when that's where the aliveness is.

The Patterns That Keep Showing Up

Most of what brings people to therapy isn't a single event. It's a pattern. The same argument in different relationships. The same shutdown at moments of vulnerability. The same way of disappearing when things get real. Gestalt therapy is particularly good at making those patterns visible, not as problems to be solved, but as information about how you've learned to navigate the world.

Unfinished business is a Gestalt concept that describes the experiences we never fully processed, conversations that never happened, feelings that got interrupted, losses that were never fully grieved. They don't disappear. They show up in the present, often in ways we don't immediately recognize.

The work is to bring them into awareness, not to rehash them endlessly, but to finally complete what was left incomplete. That's when something actually shifts.

who i work with

I work with adults who are tired of analyzing themselves without anything actually shifting. People who can describe their patterns with precision and still find themselves repeating them. Gestalt tends to resonate with those who want therapy that's alive and present rather than retrospective, and who are ready to look honestly at how they show up rather than just why.

I've worked with artists and creatives who think in patterns and need an approach that can keep pace with them, and with adults whose relational histories show up clearly in how they engage in the room. My practice is trauma-informed, justice-centered, sex-positive, shame-free, and proudly LGBTQIA+ affirming.