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FROM HELEN MCWILLIAM

Helen McWilliam has a private psychotherapy and supervision practice, and facilitates Gestalt art experience workshops. Helen’s professional qualifications include a Bachelor of Social Science and a Masters of Gestalt Therapy. Through the articles below, Helen shares her knowledge and own experience in Gestalt therapy and philosophy, as well as her love of art, family and community.

Field theory in Gestalt therapy by Helen McWilliam

Field Theory in Gestalt Therapy: We are never separate

We are never separate from the world around us. This article explores how Gestalt therapy’s Field Theory reveals that we are never separate from the world around us, showing how healing arises in relationship with people, place, and moment.

Spirit in Gestalt Therapy

From Presence to Spirit: Gestalt Therapy and the Sacred in Everyday Life

Introduction While spirituality is not a specific methodology in Gestalt therapy, it emerges organically through presence, awareness, and relationship. Gestalt therapy honours the human being as a whole—body, mind, emotions, and spirit. It is through this holistic lens that spirit becomes present: not as something transcendent or abstract, but as something intimate, embodied, and woven […]