Gestalt Psychotherapy is a holistic therapy that sees you,rather than the therapist,as the expert on yourself. The therapist works to help you become more aware of yourself and how you manage your feelings and experience rather than offering advice and telling you how to change.A Gestalt therapist aims to help you learn 'how to think' about your difficulties rather than 'what to think'. Gestalt aims to help you become aware of how your patterns of thoughts,feelings and behaviour developed in the past as a result of your past experiences. It regards these as a 'creative aadjustment' or, put another way, the best that you could do at the time given the circumstances. It does not regard these as a sign that there is something wrong with you but aims to help you decide whether you want to keep these patterns or whether and how you want to change them. Patterns of feeling,behaviour and relating that you developed in one part of your life may no longer be appropriate or helpful in your current life. For example,maybe you don't need to be as anxious and frightened as you were when you were a child because many things have changed.
