Gestalt Therapy Australia

Finding time for therapy during the week isn’t always easy.

ConnectGround offers low-cost counselling on Saturdays, with appointments available in person or via Telehealth.

✅ $55 per session
✅ Saturdays, 9:30 am–12:30 pm
✅ Weekly, ongoing therapy with no session limit
✅ In person at 622 Lygon Street, Carlton North
✅ Telehealth available
✅ No GP referral needed

Whether you’re going through a difficult time, looking to understand patterns in your life, or simply wanting some space to reflect, our Saturday clinic offers an affordable option for ongoing support.

Find out more or enquire about a session:
https://www.connectground.com.au/become-a-client

ConnectGround - Psychotherapy and counselling We offer short term counselling or long term psychotherapy and do not limit the number of sessions you can receive.

Working with dreams doesn’t require having all the answers.

This Saturday, join Rhys Price-Robertson for Working with Dreams: A Day of Practice and Play, an experiential workshop exploring how dreams can be approached with curiosity, creativity and openness in therapeutic practice.

The day offers an opportunity to build confidence working with dream material through a mix of practice, reflection and play.

📅 Saturday 22 August
📍 Parkville, Melbourne

There’s still time to join us.

👉 Learn more and book:

Working with dreams: A day of practice and play Explore embodied, experiential dreamwork in a playful, practical workshop for beginners and experienced therapists alike.

Supporting Gestalt supervision in our community

Following our recent post about training and developing Gestalt supervisors, we wanted to highlight another part of the picture: helping practitioners find them.

The VAGP Register includes a dedicated Find a Gestalt Supervisor directory, bringing together experienced practitioners offering clinical supervision.

Explore the supervisor register:
https://www.vagp.com.au/find-a-gestalt-supervisor

Ready to take the next step into supervision?

Join Leanne O’Shea and Sally Coates for our next supervision training program, starting this November.

This 5-day, PACFA-accredited program is designed for counsellors, psychotherapists, social workers, coaches and other helping professionals with at least five years of clinical experience.

The program offers a practical and experiential way to develop your supervision practice, with opportunities to practise, reflect, receive feedback and learn alongside other experienced practitioners.

📅 18–20 November 2026 & 18–19 March 2027
📍 Gestalt Centre Training Campus, Parkville

Places are intentionally limited to support a rich, interactive learning experience.

Learn more and register:

Become a Gestalt supervisor A contemporary approach to philosophy, practice and responsibility in therapy supervision. For therapists with 5+ years experience.

If you're looking to deepen your understanding of trauma, we'd like to share this online professional development opportunity from Relational Change.

The Certificate in Contemporary Trauma Practice: Mind, Body and Relationship is now available to practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. Grounded in a relational field perspective, the programme is designed to build confidence, skills and understanding in working with trauma, particularly complex trauma, through relational, embodied and experiential approaches.

The training is led by Miriam Taylor, whose work brings together trauma, neuroscience, Gestalt and the body.

Find out more:

Trauma Training | Relational Change Five Modules: Starting 26 February 2027, Online We are delighted to be offering this online training to practitioners in Australia and New Zealand. This training has been running in the UK since 2015 and has now been run 8 times. The course will consist of five two day modules, with each day running...

Professional communities thrive when they're visible.

The VAGP Register is helping to raise the profile of Gestalt therapy by providing a trusted public directory of registered practitioners. As more therapists and supervisors join the register, it becomes an increasingly valuable resource for both the profession and the wider community.

If you haven't explored it yet, you can browse the register here: https://www.vagp.com.au/find-a-gestalt-therapist

Have you ever left a therapy session feeling as though nothing had shifted?

Most therapists know what it's like to encounter an impasse. The work seems to stall. The same conversations repeat. Both therapist and client can begin to feel stuck.

But what if impasse isn't something to overcome?

In Gestalt therapy, these moments often hold some of the richest possibilities for awareness, contact and change.

Join Tom Trikojus and Nicole Van Os for Impasse and Ending, a practical workshop exploring how to work creatively with therapeutic impasses, endings, grief and relationship transitions.

📅 Friday 21 August
📍 Parkville, Melbourne

Places are still available.

Impasse and ending: To stay or to go? Supporting choice, grief and new beginnings.

The Heat Between Us | Relational Change Living and travelling across the UK and Europe over the past month, I found myself planning each day around the heat. Closing the blinds before leaving the house. Opening windows late in the evening. Making sure there was always cold water in the fridge.

Some moments in therapy resist easy answers.
A client who can't decide whether to stay or leave a relationship.
A couple caught in the same painful pattern.
Someone grieving an ending while still hoping things might be different.
These moments can leave therapists feeling stuck too.
Impasse and Ending explores how Gestalt therapy helps us work with these challenging thresholds—not by rushing towards solutions, but by staying with complexity and trusting what can emerge when we don't move too quickly.
Through teaching, clinical discussion and experiential exercises, Tom Trikojus and Nicole van Os will share practical wisdom drawn from many years of working with individuals and couples.
If you work therapeutically with relationships, grief or major life transitions, we'd love you to join us.
📅 Friday 21 August
📍 Parkville, Melbourne
🔗 Register here: https://www.gestalttherapyaustralia.com.au/.../1987281166465

AI is changing the world around us and psychotherapy is no exception.

VAGP is hosting an interactive evening on this very question: Reimagining Gestalt therapy in an age of AI, with Rhys Price-Robertson and Lina Patel, on Monday 20 July. Together they'll explore how AI may influence psychotherapy, where it might (or might not) belong in clinical practice, and how Gestalt therapy can respond to a fast-changing landscape.

Spots are limited — register here:

Reimagining Gestalt therapy in an age of AI