Alain Besse, Gestalt practitioner, sees adults and adolescents in individual and couple psychotherapy at his practice. He intervenes in institutions as a supervisor or mediator.

• Trained with the École Parisienne de Gestalt (www.gestalt.asso.fr)
• Member of the Société Suisse Romande de Gestalt-thérapie
• Accredited ASCA member (reimbursed by complementary insurance companies)
• Pratician-trainer certified  with CEFOC in Geneva, he has been supervising trainees for 20 years. He intervenes in institutions for team supervision.
• Specialized educator trained in Clinical Curative Pedagogy at the University of Fribourg, he has worked for 13 years with difficult adolescents and 7 years with children in psychotherapeutic boarding schools.

Affective

• You really want to change your lifestyle, your work, your pace, to get away from stress
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• You've decided to take another place in your life, another more rewarding role
• You want to make better use of your aggressiveness
• You want to stop being a victim of others
• You no longer want to feel alone
• You no longer want to feel shy, self-effacing, lonely
• Insomnia, anxiety, anxieties
• You want to transform them into creativity, energy
• You want to say goodbye to a loved one

Couple

• You want to transform your sexuality, blossom, experience a real relationship
• You no longer want to feel betrayed, abused, dissatisfied, but loved and respected
• You no longer wish to feel so often angry with your spouse, but to love serenely

Education

• You want to reflect on your family behaviors and choices without always feeling guilty
• You want a better relationship with your teenagers, your children, your parents ...
   

Gestalt therapy - practical information

• Creation

Originating from the humanist and existential currents, Gestalt therapy was created in 1951 by Frederick Perls (1893-1970), German neuro-psychoanalyst  Laura Perls (1905-1990), German doctor of psychology and psychoanalyst and Paul Goodman (1911-1972), philosopher and writer.

Gestalt therapy results from the meeting of several currents of thought: psychoanalytical approaches (S. Freud, W. Reich, O. Rank),Gestalt-theory or psychology of form, phenomenology, holism, existentialism, humanism ...

• How?

Integrated into an individualized therapeutic relationship in which the therapist invests himself personally, change comes from experimenting with new behaviors discovered here and now in a relationship of trust where the quality of contactis privileged.

The client is active and responsible (and not a passive "patient"). He visits his bodily sensations, desires, fantasies, emotions, past and desired future and gives them a dynamic form aimed at transforming his existence. He is master on board and decides himself, more and more, on the desired direction. There is no "normality" to achieve or predetermined goal. Gestalt therapy respects the journey and specificity of each individual.

The therapeutic work will involve bodily, emotional, affective and mental exploration, and will rely much more on the"how" than on the "why".

• For whom?

Gestalt therapy is particularly recommended for people seeking épanouissement, a better understanding of themselves, people going through a difficult period (bereavement, loneliness, separation), those experiencing family difficulties, educational difficulties, professional problems such as harassment, unemployment, or to those suffering from anxiety, mood disorders (aggressiveness, irritability, depression), psychosomatic physical problems (back pain, migraines, digestive problems), eating disorders, to depressed people or encountering sexual difficulties.

a_besse@hotmail.com
www.psychotherapie-geneve.com

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