Gestalt therapy training provides clinicians of any orientation with a valuable perspective, and tools to sharpen their clinical work. As increased demands on mental health practitioners require more diversity, flexibility, and creativity, a diverse, flexible and creative therapeutic model is essential.

Gestalt therapy concepts can be applied in a variety of settings, and are equally useful in long and short-term therapeutic work. Humanistic and holistic, based on a model of health rather than pathology, Gestalt therapy brings a fresh, much needed perspective to the current climate in mental health.

Widely misunderstood as a technique based approach, the theory and method of Gestalt therapy remain vital today, fifty years after its development. With roots in psychoanalysis, dialogic existentialism, and phenomenology, it can encompass insights from the current psychoanalytic theories such as self psychology and intersubjectivity theory, while the uniquely process-oriented and relationship based approach distinguish it as one of the original relational models.