For gestalt therapy and body-oriented trauma therapy
Gestalt therapy is a therapy to which experience and contact are central. As you can only experience the here and now, we will focus on the present. That enables you to get in touch with your emotions. I will focus on self-support and making choices that align with who you are.
The body-oriented trauma therapy focuses on ‘frozen energy’ inside your body that is a result of events that were overwhelming. It is a soft approach that uses focus and felt sense as the entrance to the body. Following bit by bit what the body needs to unload (fight and flight response) is a healing process for the body and mind.
Both therapies are for everyone who wants to work at personal growth, for men and women, for heterosexuals and homosexuals, for young and old and for people born here and elsewhere. The choice for therapy is a choice to invest in yourself.
Some possible themes:
- not knowing what you want
- stress and burn-out
- sexual violence
- traumatic events
- sexual identity
- coming out
- discrimination
- depression and loneliness
- anger and agony
- difficulty with making choices
- relation- or work problems
- unresolved mourning
My background as Gestalt Therapist and Trauma Therapist
My name is Madeleine Maurick (1954). I have been trained in social work, political science, gestalt therapy and trauma therapy (Somatic Experiencing). My interest has always been divided into two: the psychological process (what stimulates and frustrates people) and the international political process, in particular human rights, gay rights and trauma relief in Africa.
If you would like to have an intake to discuss the possibilities, don’t hesitate to contact me. I am not a native speaker, but I am pretty comfortable speaking English.
Practical info
Gestaltpraktijk Amsterdam
Brouwersgracht 675
1015 GJ Amsterdam
Email: info@gestaltpraktijkamsterdam.nl
Phone: 06 1293 0124
A session is 1 hour and costs € 90. You can check your own health insurance for the possibility of refunding part of the costs. Most insurances do refund Gestalt Therapy under ‘Alternative Health’.