Michelle Bland
Otakaro Healing Arts Fitzgerald Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch
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Otakaro Healing Arts Fitzgerald Avenue, Linwood, Christchurch
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Private Gestalt Therapy/Psychotherapy Practice - Professional one-on-one therapy and Relationship Counselling services. Individual therapy - I specialise in working with depression and suicide, and life purpose. Relationship Counselling - my focus is creating the conditions for deep listening and fuller understanding between two people. To bring back the love to relationships.
2 customer reviews
Madeleine Voice
Therapist
Michelle was amazing! She was very warm and easy to talk to. And she listened and helped me work through issues with understanding and empathy.
Hilary
I recommend Michelle with all my heart!
Gestalt Therapy
Gestalt therapy is a warm, gentle and invitational way of exploring your lived world through building self-awareness of the ways you engage with your life. It is a therapeutic model that seeks to unfold the natural and innate wisdom embedded in every human being.
Through a strong focus on the 'here-and-now', Gestalt therapy uses what is known as 'the experiment' to explore what is happening, how this is happening, and 'trying on' new responses to the world in real time in the safety of the therapeutic environment .
As a practice, Gestalt therapy is interested in a person's experience and where a person may feel stuck with older patterns of responding. The Gestalt therapist seeks to create conditions for spontaneity (through 'the experiment') which has the potential to lead to personal evolution and transformation.
Contact: michelle.bland1@gmail.com
Fees: Please see my other services for details
Individual Therapy
My aim is to provide a healthy and grounded environment to support you to see who you are and to resource you through times of difficulty. I am a Gestalt therapist who also engages with role play, sand play, and dream work to create the conditions for self-awareness and self-expansion.
Contact: michelle.bland1@gmail.com
Fees: $110 per 1 hour session (Please ask about my sliding scale for financial hardship)
Relationship Counselling
Some of my most satisfying work is in sitting with a couple as they begin to truely see and hear each other, as if for the first time.
As a Relationship Therapist/Counsellor I am interested in supporting couples and family members toward a more connected and loving relationship with themselves and each other.
I use Gestalt therapy as a base to maintain presence in the 'here-and-now' so that there is firm ground to sift through what people can experience as the 'blame game'. Other processes I use include: the language of Non Violent Communication (NVC) - a means to unfold the deeper unexpressed feelings and needs that can often lay underneath anger, resentment, and difficulty; and, Psychodrama - as a tool to support each individual toward a willing understanding of the other's world without giving up themselves in doing so.
I believe that when we can REALLY listen to one another AND ourselves...like really listen...there is a greater opportunity for understanding and compassion. Which then opens the potential for deeper, more satisfying, and more loving relationships.
Contact: michelle.bland1@gmail.com
Fees: $150 per 1.5 hour session (Please ask about my sliding scale for financial hardship)
