Dr. Leena Petersen
Counsellor
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About me
After several years of living, researching and teaching in mainly London and Jerusalem, I moved to Germany and graduated in Gestalt Therapy at the internationally recognised Hamburg Institute for Gestalt oriented Training (HIGW). I attended further training in Integrative Trauma Therapy at the Munich Institute for Trauma Therapy (MITT) and also in Gestalt Dance Therapy on the basis of Anna Halprin's life/art process (touching ground Berlin).
I am training therapist and trainer at the HIGW and member of the editorial board of the German-speaking journal Gestalttherapie – Forum für Gestaltperspektiven .
I offer Gestalt therapy and counseling for individuals, couples and groups in German and English, and bilingually (German-English) in the context of couples therapy. Next to my practice, I worked as gestalt therapist in social psychiatry for several years. As a trauma therapist, I offer my services also to the Network for Traumatised Refugees in Lower Saxony (NTFN), based in Lüneburg.
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Approach
Gestalt Therapy represents an internationally recognised approach within Humanistic Psychotherapy.
Gestalt Therapy explores the diversity of human beings and their uniqueness within the context of their relationships and social environment. Gestalt Therapy supports personal change and development.
New Perspectives
Sometimes in life, our ability to deal with certain situations can be impaired, causing us to stagnate in certain patterns or programs of behaviour. In Gestalt Therapy, we reflect or mirror the client’s current life situation in order to understand the whole spectrum of related life experiences that the client has had, paying attention to the social dimension of these experiences. This process aims to understand what has come to a standstill in the client’s life, and to bring it into motion once again.
