Besse Alain (Genève)

Alain Besse, Gestalt-practitioner, sees adults and adolescents in individual and couple psychotherapy at his practice. He also works in institutions as a supervisor or mediator.

• Trained at the École Parisienne de Gestalt (www.gestalt.asso.fr)
• Member of the Société Suisse Romande de Gestalt-thérapie
• ASCA-accredited member (reimbursed by complementary insurance companies)
• Certified practitioner-trainer with CEFOC in Geneva, he has been supervising trainees for 20 years. He also provides team supervision in institutions.
• A specialized educator trained in Clinical Curative Pedagogy at the University of Fribourg, he has worked for 13 years with difficult adolescents and 7 years with children in psychotherapeutic boarding schools.

Affective

• You really want to change your lifestyle, your work, your rhythm, to get away from stress
• You've decided to take on a new, more rewarding role in your life
• You want to make better use of your aggressiveness
• You want to stop being a victim of others
• You no longer want to feel alone
• You no longer want to feel shy, self-effacing or lonely
• Insomnia, anguish, anxiety
• You want to transform them into creativity and energy
• You want to say goodbye to a loved one

Couple

• You want to transform your sexuality, to blossom, to experience a real relationship
• You no longer want to feel betrayed, abused or dissatisfied, but loved and respected.
• You no longer wish to feel angry with your partner so often, but to love serenely.

Education

• You want to reflect on your behavior and family choices without always feeling guilty.
• You want a better relationship with your teenagers, your children, your parents...

Gestalt therapy - practical information

• Creation

Stemming from the humanist and existential current, Gestalt therapy was created in 1951 by Frederick Perls (1893-1970), a German neuro-psychoanalyst, Laura Perls (1905-1990), a German doctor of psychology and psychoanalyst, and Paul Goodman (1911-1972), a philosopher and writer.

Gestalt therapy is the result of the meeting of several currents of thought: psychoanalytical approaches (S. Freud, W. Reich, O. Rank), Gestalt theory or psychology of form, phenomenology, holism, existentialism, humanism...

• How can we help?

As part of an individualized therapeutic relationship in which the therapist is personally involved, change comes from experimenting with new behaviors discovered here and now in a relationship of trust where the quality of contact is privileged.

The client is active and responsible (not a passive "patient"). He visits his bodily sensations, his desires, his fantasies, his emotions, his past and his desired future, and gives them a dynamic form aimed at transforming his existence. He's in control, and increasingly decides for himself where he wants to go. There is no "normality" to be achieved or predetermined goal. Gestalt therapy respects each individual's path and specificity.

Therapeutic work involves physical, emotional, affective and mental exploration, and is based much more on the "how" than on the "why".

• Who is it for?

Gestalt therapy is particularly recommended for people seeking self-fulfillment and a better understanding of themselves, for those going through a difficult period (bereavement, loneliness, separation), those experiencing family or educational difficulties, professional problems such as harassment, unemployment, or those suffering from anxiety, mood disorders (aggression, irritability, depression), psychosomatic physical problems (backache, migraines, digestive problems), eating disorders, depression or sexual difficulties.

a_besse@hotmail.com www.psychotherapie-geneve.com

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