David Forrest
Gestaltuk

Interruptions to Openness of Experiences Ideally we would all be operating in the ‘peachy’ segment.There are a lot of situations that inhibi

it is not the their death that causes pain, rather the attempt to sustain them. The pain is the attachment to was has gone

Many ideas about suicide contain part truths and part understandings. Suicide smashes through any pretension we may have that life is easy

over the past several decades there has been more writing on gestalt theory and practice, existing research rarely includes a sound design

Relational Awareness training notes from 2012/2014 for Postgraduate Diploma studies

What is required is to be reachable and reliable. Through this the person may recognise and know you.

Early 2003 assignment of the value of research

Growth and Change Training Notes. The training relates to UKCP Postgraduate Master programme of study for Integrative Psychotherapy

we consider the self as the function of contacting the actual transient present. three chief partial systems, ego, id, and personality,

I'm not sure I titled this. Written in 2013, finishing sentiments with my client completing therapy. Death does not die ...

Poem: When. the backdrop to this poem was, originally, the Jack Vettriano painting Dance Me To The End Of Love.

Early Affect Confusion: online with Dr Richard Erskine

By Marye O’Reilly-Knapp Theory and Methods of Integrative Psychotherapy ABSTRACT This article revisits aspects of the theory and methods...

Each generation has its unique and changing dimensions from the one before.

I think of eating, therapeutically, as a desire for satisfaction, a satisfaction bodily held and experienced from nourishment.

Taking my hand is unconditional, for when you are ready I will not let go till you feel safe and secure I will not leave you until you go

Through all my work there is an appreciation for my client; appreciation for being invited into their world

I am presented with an array of difficulties from young people these days. I can feel helpless at times to restore or resolve the burden of worry and concern expressed. And I know the restoration and resolution will come from the individual and the helplessness is part of the sharing circumstances. Depression is the not-happiness; is the hoping-less; is that which is un-reachable. So I remain reachable, and willing, ready, and available

This workshop came out of requests to include various aspects of therapeutic practice, particularly disclosure.

Everyone has ways to describe their experiencie These may be rich, creative and imagery full or dull and interest

The intentionality of assertiveness is different from aggression. With assertiveness the intention is the person’s own needs to be forward

Process Oriented Testimony is a phrase I came up to convey a sense of the journey, and testimony.

Handout for Intimacy and Love in Therapy workshop - number 2: for discussion and reference in the workshop