Introduction

This book shows Christian counselors, psychotherapists, psychologists, pastors, pastoral counselors, and others what gestalt therapy is like. The author of the book believes that gestalt therapy is a wonderful way of working with people that allows them to be authentic and to grow. As a gestalt therapist and a Christian, the author has found the praxis of gestalt therapy helpful in doing what really amounts to pastoral counseling. He has written stories that harmonize with the fact that gestalt therapy is really about a way of life, a style of living. The book is not just about therapy; it’s about growth, about being alive, about being a living thing. Gesalt therapy is not just a clinical modality; many people find themselves living and relating to others using what they have learned in gestalt therapy.