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My psychotherapeutic work is grounded in Gestalt Therapy, a relational and phenomenological approach developed within humanistic and existential psychology.
Gestalt Therapy understands psychological difficulties not as isolated symptoms within an individual, but as patterns that emerge in the ongoing relationship between a person and their environment.
The focus of the work is on present experience, how thoughts, emotions, bodily sensations, and behaviour organise in real situations, and how meaning is constructed moment by moment.
Change is supported by increasing awareness of what is happening here and now, particularly in how a person relates to themselves, to others, and to the wider context.
This includes attention to bodily experience, emotional processes, implicit expectations, and relational dynamics as they appear in the therapeutic relationship.
Rather than applying techniques or interpretations, Gestalt Therapy emphasises dialogue, field theory, and response-ability, allowing new possibilities for action to emerge through lived experience.
My coaching work is guided by an integrative framework that extends the Gestalt foundation by offering a structured way of mapping how lifestyle, environment, bodily regulation, interpretation, and purpose shape experience over time.
This supports meaning-making in how people remain regulated, make sense of experience, and act effectively
My coaching work is guided by an integrative framework that extends the Gestalt foundation by offering a structured way of mapping how lifestyle, environment, bodily regulation, interpretation, and purpose shape experience over time.
This supports meaning-making in how people remain regulated, make sense of experience, and act effectively over time.
At its core, this framework is concerned with how meaning is formed through the interaction of body, mind, daily life, relationships, and purpose.
Rather than treating wellbeing, resilience, or performance as isolated outcomes, it focuses on the conditions that make these possible.
This framework informs all my coaching, executive, and organisational work.
Stress and resilience arise from the same underlying factors. They differ not in kind, but in configuration, flexibility, and coherence.
When these factors are sufficiently aligned and resourced, people remain adaptive, reflective, and capable of learning.
When they become rigid, depleted, or contradictory, stress accumulates and functionin
Stress and resilience arise from the same underlying factors. They differ not in kind, but in configuration, flexibility, and coherence.
When these factors are sufficiently aligned and resourced, people remain adaptive, reflective, and capable of learning.
When they become rigid, depleted, or contradictory, stress accumulates and functioning deteriorates.
The aim of the work is to restore coherence across these factors.
Human functioning can be understood across four interacting layers. These layers are always active and mutually influential.
Ground (Foundations)
The material, relational, and organisational conditions of daily life.
This includes rhythms, resources, workload, role clarity, and relational context.
Inference (Interpretation)
How bodily signals
Human functioning can be understood across four interacting layers. These layers are always active and mutually influential.
Ground (Foundations)
The material, relational, and organisational conditions of daily life.
This includes rhythms, resources, workload, role clarity, and relational context.
Inference (Interpretation)
How bodily signals and mental models shape perception, evaluation, and meaning.
This includes patterns of attention, interpretation, and emotional appraisal.
Orientation (Purpose)
What provides direction, value, and motivational coherence.
This includes goals, priorities, and personal or organisational values.
Action (Response-Ability)
How people respond, adapt, and recover in practice. This includes behavioural choices, boundaries, and learning from experience. Change in any layer affects the whole system.
Within this structure, five domains are particularly influential in shaping regulation and meaning.
Lifestyle
Sleep, recovery, nutrition, movement, work rhythms, and daily routines.
Environment
Resources, role clarity, power dynamics, culture, and relational safety.
Body
Breathing patterns, posture, muscular tone, and interoceptive awareness.
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Within this structure, five domains are particularly influential in shaping regulation and meaning.
Lifestyle
Sleep, recovery, nutrition, movement, work rhythms, and daily routines.
Environment
Resources, role clarity, power dynamics, culture, and relational safety.
Body
Breathing patterns, posture, muscular tone, and interoceptive awareness.
Mindset
Assumptions, narratives, expectations, and interpretive habits.
Purpose
Values, direction, motivation, and sense of coherence.
These domains are assessed and worked with in relation to one another, not in isolation.
Within this framework:
Stress is understood as a contextual, relational, and psychophysiological process arising from tension between expected stability and expected change.
It reflects a configuration in which foundations are strained, interpretation becomes rigid, orientation narrows, and action loses coherence.
Resilience is understood as
Within this framework:
Stress is understood as a contextual, relational, and psychophysiological process arising from tension between expected stability and expected change.
It reflects a configuration in which foundations are strained, interpretation becomes rigid, orientation narrows, and action loses coherence.
Resilience is understood as the ongoing capacity to remain regulated, make sense of experience, stay oriented by what matters, and respond adaptively while recovering and learning over time.
It reflects a configuration in which foundations support regulation, interpretation remains flexible, orientation provides stability, and action remains proportionate and recoverable.
This framework is applied across different forms of work.
It is used to:
It informs the use of:
This framework is applied across different forms of work.
It is used to:
It informs the use of:
Tools and methods are interpreted within this broader meaning-making context, rather than applied mechanically.
Boundaries and Professional Use
This framework is a professional sense-making structure used within relational, ethical, and context-sensitive work.
It is not a diagnostic system nor a self-help method.
Its detailed application is developed collaboratively with clients and adapted to specific situations.
Why This Matters
Many approaches focus on isolated skills, symptoms, or behaviours.
This framework focuses on the conditions that allow people and organisations to function well over time.
By working with meaning, regulation, and context together, it supports:
Working With This Framework
This framework informs my professional work.
It provides a consistent way of understanding individual experience, leadership challenges, and organisational dynamics, while remaining flexible enough to adapt to context. Specific methods are selected according to need, rather than applied as fixed programmes.
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