Hacina Guezoul
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About me
Low Cost Gestalt Personal Growth & Development Group (10 consecutive weeks)
Collaboration between the Gestalt Centre, London and the Centre For Better Health, London
Location: The Centre for Better Health (CBH), 1A Darnley Road London E9, 6QH
Dates: Every Thursday 5:30pm - 7:30pm; Starts 15 May 2025 and Ends 17 July 2025
About You
Do you sometimes feel forgotten or unseen? Do you struggle to communicate your feelings with others? Do you often find it hard to connect with others? Would you like to explore in a safe environment your social anxiety issues?
A Gestalt group typically consists of around 12 participants and offers its members the opportunity to explore personal issues with the support and participation of people also interested in understanding themselves and the vicissitudes of their lives.
By participating in a Gestalt Personal Growth and Development group you may find opportunities to explore these issues and more in a supported space, such as: fostering your capacity to be imaginative; developing a greater awareness of how you relate to yourself and others; discovering patterns you have developed for dealing with your life and decide if these are working for you; working with what are sometimes experienced as 'difficult emotions' including fear, vulnerability, anxiousness, anger and sadness; learning ways of giving and receiving clear comments about yourself and others; developing your self-awareness by regularly meeting over 10 weeks with the same group of people.
Personal Growth and Development groups are a safe, supportive space which offer an opportunity for you to explore personal issues alongside other people who also want to understand themselves better.
About me and my Therapy Practice
I’m an experienced qualified Gestalt counsellor in BACP-accredited practice with experience in both the voluntary sector and private practice. I teach counselling in a college in Brighton where I facilitate Personal Development Training Groups. I’ve been skilling up training as an individual and group psychotherapist on the UKCP accredited programme at the London Gestalt Centre which I’m now on the final stage after completing an MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy from London Metropolitan University.
Group Facilitators
I’ll be co-facilitating this group as a senior trainee psychotherapist with another senior trainee colleague. We will be supervised by a senior member of the Gestalt Centre throughout the 10 weeks’ group.
Training, qualifications & experience
- Psychotherapy Practitioner Diploma, Gestalt Individual Group Psychotherapy (ongoing)
- MA Gestalt Therapy Theory (Merit)
- PG Dip, Gestalt Psychotherapy
- BACP-Accredited Diploma in Counselling
- Certificate in Humanistic Counselling
- The Foundation Course: Awareness in Bereavement Care
- Samaritan Helpline Training
Member organisations
school Registered / Accredited
Being registered/accredited with a professional body means an individual must have achieved a substantial level of training and experience approved by their member organisation.
BACP is one of the UK’s leading professional bodies for counselling and psychotherapy with around 60,000 members. The Association has several different categories of membership, including Student Member, Individual Member, Registered Member MBACP, Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Accred) and Senior Registered Accredited Member MBACP (Snr Acccred). Registered and accredited members are listed on the BACP Register, which shows that they have demonstrated BACP’s recommended standards for training, proficiency and ethical practice. The BACP Register was the first register of psychological therapists to be accredited by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA). Accredited and senior accredited membership are voluntary categories for members who choose to undertake a rigorous application and assessment process to demonstrate additional standards around practice, training and supervision. Individual members will have completed an appropriate counselling or psychotherapy course and started to practise, but they won’t appear on the BACP Register until they've demonstrated that they meet the standards for registration. Student members are still in the process of completing their training. All members are bound by the BACP Ethical Framework and a Professional Conduct Procedure.
Accredited register membership
The Accredited Register Scheme was set up in 2013 by the Department of Health (DoH) as a way to recognise organisations that hold voluntary registers which meet certain standards. These standards are set by the Professional Standards Authority (PSA).
This therapist has indicated that they belong to an Accredited Register.
Areas of counselling I deal with
Therapies offered
Fees
Additional information
Full Cost: £130
Visit Centre for Better Health website and click register for a course: www.centreforbetterhealth.org.uk/therapeutic-support-group
Funded places are available for City and Hackney Wellbeing Network members, contact your main Wellbeing Network contact to enrol
When I work
This Low Cost Personal Growth & Development Group is every Thursday 5:30pm - 7:30pm; It starts 15 May 2025 and ends 17 July 2025 (10 weeks)
Further information
The first session
During your first session, the co-facilitators introduce themselves and usually set some brief guidelines (e.g.: confidentiality, sharing the speaking time, etc.) to create the favourable conditions for an explorative environment.
The co-facilitators also invite participants to introduce themselves. Participants are encouraged to be curious about their experiences, thoughts, and feelings. Listening to others can be a valuable and insightful experience.
What is Gestalt?
Gestalt theory is concerned with the whole person, encouraging a balance between body, feeling, intellect and imagination. It is a relational approach.
The gestalt approach in psychotherapy understands people as being inextricably linked with their environments, both affected by and affecting the context in which a person lives.
Here and now, experiments, creativity, imagination, fragmentation, and integration are concepts linked with the theory and practice of Gestalt.
Gestalt sessions are typically lively, creative, interactive and experimental – and always focused on the Here and Now.
