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Skills in Gestalt Counselling & Psychotherapy

Fifth Edition
May 2026 | 344 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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A practical guide to the skills and techniques of the gestalt approach used at each stage of the therapeutic process, from the therapeutic relationship, assessment and treatment considerations, to managing risk, resourcing the client and ending therapy. Underpinned throughout by key gestalt principles and an awareness of difference and diversity, and features including case examples and suggested activities and reflective exercises.

Updated in its Fifth Edition, it includes:
  • New content on difference and power and virtual therapy
  • New chapters on the change process, the concept of polarities, neurodiversity, the erotic, therapist self-disclosure and stuckness in therapy.
This book is a must-read for trainees on gestalt, humanistic and integrative counselling and psychotherapy courses, and for qualified practitioners needing an accessible introduction to gestalt skills in practice.
 
Part One: Gestalt Therapy in Practice
 
1. The Important First Steps
 
2. Phenomenology and Field Theory
 
3. Awareness
 
4. The Change Process
 
5. The Therapeutic Relationship
 
6. Making Contact
 
7. Polarities
 
8. Therapist Self-Disclosure
 
9. Assessment and Diagnosis
 
10. Assessment and Management of Risk
 
11. Treatment Considerations
 
12. Strengthening Support
 
13. Shame
 
14. Difference and Power
 
15. Neurodiversity
 
16. Experimenting
 
17. Unfinished Business
 
18. Transference and Counter-transference
 
19. The Erotic in Therapy
 
20. Embodied Process
 
21. Working with Dreams
 
22. When you feel stuck
 
23. Ethical Dilemmas
 
24. Ending the Journey
 
Part Two: Specialised Areas of Practice
 
25. Resourcing the Client
 
26. Depression and Anxiety
 
27. Trauma Part 1: Assessing and Stabilizing
 
28. Trauma Part 2: Processing and Integrating
 
29. Brief Therapy
 
30. Working Virtually30
 
31. Spirituality in Counselling
 
32. The Reflective Practioner – Research and Gestalt

Phil Joyce

Phil Joyce is a UKCP registered psychotherapist and a BACP senior accredited supervisor in private practice. He works in West London as a trainer, supervisor, psychotherapist and consultant  He was formerly an approved psychiatric social worker in London and has considerable experience of multidisciplinary teams in mental health. He has been a primary tutor on the MSc course in Gestalt Psychotherapy at Metanoia Institute for over 15 years, and has given many gestalt presentations at international conferences over the last 15 years during that time. He specializes in trauma treatment and is an accredited EMDR Supervisor and Consultant.... More About Author

Charlotte Sills

Charlotte Sills is a UKCP registered integrative psychotherapist in private practice and a supervisor, coach, trainer and consultant in a variety of settings. She has been working in the field of psychological therapies since 1979 and is a BACP senior accredited supervisor and a Teaching and Supervising Transactional Analyst. Until 2007 she was also part of the Leadership Team at Metanoia Institute. One of her strong interests is in the interface between therapy and coaching and she is a member of faculty of the Masters in Executive Coaching and Professor of Coaching at Ashridge Hult Business School, UK. More About Author