THERAPY SESSIONS

"...I'M AFRAID TO BE SEEN..."

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This is how I answer the question about the most common issue I work with in therapy sessions. The fear of being seen... A type of social anxiety whose epicenter is the troubling question: What will others think?

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The fear of being seen is a lack of self-love, a lack of self-trust. It’s the phrases that often echo in one’s mind: "I’m not good enough, I’m uninteresting to anyone, everyone around me has achieved so much, while I..."

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The fear of being seen is a childhood-carried belief that: "People like me are uninteresting to the world, they achieve nothing, they’re of no use..."

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Because of this, a person chooses to hide, thinking: "If they see me, I’ll embarrass myself again and be rejected again."

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Time passes, years go by, and life just doesn’t happen...

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Or maybe it’s better to remember and internalize your uniqueness and have the courage to live Your life, not the life that Others expect from you?

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The essence lies in choices...

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In therapy sessions, I use Gestalt therapy principles.

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What is Gestalt therapy?

Gestalt therapy is one of the main branches of psychotherapy, emerging in the mid-20th century. Its founder was the physician/psychiatrist Frederick "Fritz" Perls. Gestalt therapy is a method that combines existentialism, Eastern wisdom and practices, a phenomenological approach, and dialogue-based therapy.

 

Gestalt therapy is about contact. It’s about the relationship with oneself, with others, and with the environment. It’s a quality relationship. It’s a full relationship experienced in the present moment. It’s a creative, embodied, felt, verbalized, and relationally grounded life. These are principles that help a person live their life with mind, heart, and body.

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The main goal of Gestalt therapy is to develop awareness. When we cultivate awareness, we feel ourselves more, we notice others. We see ourselves in relation to people, recognize our own and others’ needs and behavioral patterns.

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By increasing a person’s awareness and attentiveness, a Gestalt therapist helps them get to know themselves, understand what is happening in their life, and most importantly—realize how they themselves contribute to it.

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By getting to know themselves, their environment, and their relationships with it, their met and unmet needs, their behavior, thoughts, emotions, and feelings, and by understanding their role in it all, a person gains clarity. This becomes the starting point for their new life.

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Gestalt therapy, with its predominant holistic view of a person as a whole, is oriented toward:

• self-discovery and the restoration of true identity, rejecting what has been imposed (e.g., personality-limiting stereotypes) and accepting (integrating) previously rejected parts of the self;

• awareness of one’s sensations, emotions, feelings, behavior, and needs;

• being "here and now," freeing oneself from being stuck in the past or drifting into the future, forgetting to live in this very moment, in this very place;

• open, meaningful contact with oneself and the environment;

• taking responsibility for one’s own life.

Gestalt therapy is much more than just a technique or method. It is an ongoing process that can be useful for many people in various situations. The main goal of this therapy is to restore a person’s self-awareness, their connection with the world, and to help shape a fuller, more harmonious life.

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Gestalt therapy is therapy for free people.

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