Counseling is one area where mental and emotional problems can be addressed. However, it can also be a supportive tool to pursue the need for personal development and spiritual growth.
My counselling approach – based on Yvonne Maurer’s Körperzentrierte Psychologische Beratung IKP – is holistic. I consider and work with the six dimensions that a human being experiences:
Together we explore your inner and outer world. In doing so, possible connections are made conscious. Depending on the situation, they are recreated, which forms the prerequisite for being able to experience new things – and existing ones are unraveled if a disadvantageous fixation on a certain topic has solidified over time.
The method is:
This integrative psychotherapy method belongs to humanistic psychology and originated from the Gestalt approach.
The basic assumption of Gestalt psychology is that people perceive complex stimulus patterns as meaningfully grouped wholes or shapes, rather than breaking them down into individual components. In simpler terms, human perception takes place holistically through all accessible senses and is organized into shapes. This approach emphasizes that the whole is more than the sum of its parts and that the perception of objects and scenes is guided by intrinsic principles of organization, such as proximity, similarity, and closure.
In Gestalt therapy in particular, the focus is on the here and now, awareness, and the holistic view of the individual in their environment.