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Chrysalis Online Course

Certificate in Gestalt Therapy

Quality Checked Certificate enabling you to take the first step in your counselling career

Gestalt Therapy is a truly valuable approach in developing self-awareness and personal growth. It offers a model of how we interact with ourselves and our environment. Gestalt raises our awareness of being present in the moment and of being “In Contact”. It is for many a revelation in how we can practice therapy.

This course introduces you to all the key aspects of Gestalt therapy, including its links to Humanistic principles, the concept of Figure and Ground, Contact between Self and Environment, the phases of the Cycle of Awareness, and Interruptions to Contact. And you learn key experiments and techniques developed by Gestalt therapists such as the Empty Chair technique, Self-Awareness exercises and the Gestalt method of Dream Analysis.

You don’t need any previous experience to take this course for your own development and interest. Or, if you are training to be, or are qualified as, a Counsellor or Psychotherapist, this course is valuable Continuing Professional Development to add to your existing knowledge and skills.

This course is recognised and Quality Checked by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society which holds an Accredited Register, recognised by the Professional Standards Authority.

What to Expect

  • Certification
  • The work
  • Time to Complete
  • Your own tutor

This course introduces you to all the key aspects of Gestalt therapy, including its links to Humanistic principles, the concept of Figure and Ground, Contact between Self and Environment, the phases of the Cycle of Awareness, and Interruptions to Contact. And you learn key experiments and techniques developed by Gestalt therapists such as the Empty Chair technique, Self-Awareness exercises and the Gestalt method of Dream Analysis.

Upon completion of the course, you will achieve:

  • Chrysalis Online Certificate (Cert. CNS.) Quality Checked by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society
  • Guaranteed face-to-face interview if you wish to proceed with our Chrysalis Level 5 Professional Diploma in Psychotherapeutic Counselling Practice which offers a route to the Accredited Register

Our online courses are self-directed learning. You can read the materials directly from the platform and download/ print them if you wish. A small number of multiple choice questions and assignments are to be completed by you. Your answers can either be submitted directly onto the platform or you can upload Microsoft Word documents.

Each Module has a section of multiple choice questions for you to answer and an assignment to submit. You need to complete both in full and submit for marking. Once your work is marked and passed, you will receive your results and the next Module will be opened for you. Successful completion and passing of all Modules will enable you to download your Certificate.

All our courses indicate the minimum time you would need to complete them. The main thing to remember though, is that you can take as long as you like to complete your studies *

* Terms and Conditions Apply.

Your submitted work will be allocated to one of our expert markers who are specialists in our course subjects. You will receive feedback on your submissions and you may ask for further advice about your feedback if you need to so that you have all the support you need to achieve success.

Quality Checked

Recognised Qualification

Recognised & Quality Checked by the National Counselling and Psychotherapy Society (NCPS)

Online Course

Certificate in Gestalt Therapy

Course Syllabus

  • 1

    Module 1

    Knowing a definition of Gestalt

    Understanding the importance for the individual to have full contact with themselves and the environment

    Understanding the concept of Figure and Ground

    Understanding Humanistic theory of personal growth and meeting of needs

    Knowing about the Cycle of Awareness

  • 2

    Module 2

    Knowing about the influences on Gestalt Therapy

    Understanding the concept of ‘growth disorder’ and ‘dis-ease’

    Understanding the idea of Unfinished Business

    Knowing about Urge to Repeat 

    Knowing the boundary disturbances to the Cycle of Awareness

  • 3

    Module 3

    Know about the work of the trained Gestalt therapist

    Understand the importance of Sensation Focus

    Know about the awareness continuum

    Know about Gestalt experiments

    Know about the Two Chair technique

    Know about the Gestalt approach to dreams

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