Pablo Mendez Huergo

This is a psycho-humanistic therapy aimed at uncovering our most authentic “way of being” by bringing awareness to our most automatic behaviors, thoughts, and emotions. It’s an integral and holistic approach, as it sees the person as a whole—body, emotion, and mind. **Core principles:** - **Here and now:** Gestalt therapy focuses on how what is happening manifests in the present moment, emphasizing the relationship between therapist and client. - **Awareness:** Within this relationship, moments of awareness emerge—especially through nonverbal and emotional “language”—helping the person gradually understand how they have built their character and personality. - **Responsibility:** Clients are encouraged to take personal responsibility for their actions, choices, and experiences. The aim is to avoid projecting responsibility onto others and instead take control of one’s own life. - **Contact:** The therapy observes how people make and break contact with their environment and with others. This contact cycle includes the phases of sensation, figure (focus of attention), and withdrawal. Understanding this cycle helps people recognize their relational patterns and explore new ways of connecting. --- **How will we do this?** **STEP 1** We’ll seek to understand what’s happening to you—how your suffering or blockage has a logical meaning. What you're going through happens for a reason and has purpose. Understanding is the first step toward calm. That’s why this first phase relates to the **MIND**. **STEP 2** As we begin to understand it, we’ll give space to what it triggers—to the pain it causes and the difficulty it brings. This second phase involves **EMOTION**. **STEP 3** Once we’ve understood and allowed the previously blocked emotion, we have more freedom and confidence to move toward what we truly want. In this final phase, we focus on intentional **BODY**-based action.