About

 

Imagine a way of learning that involves all of you, stretches you and connects you to yourself and others!

A way of learning that is different:  learning through experiencing, doing, reflecting, feeling, sensing and connecting…

 

Gestalt Therapy Brisbane Pty Ltd (GTB) promotes the Gestalt approach to counselling, psychotherapy, professional development, supervision, community development and organisational consulting. We promote the growth and development of individuals, groups, organisations, and the community. Our aim is to enable students to build their unique therapeutic style and make use of their creative abilities as human beings.

In 2014 GTB received re-accreditation and re-registration to deliver its Master of Gestalt Therapy and Graduate Certificate in Gestalt Therapy for a period of 7 years from the Tertiary Education Quality and Standards Agency (TEQSA). GTB also received accreditation of its Master of Gestalt Therapy from its professional associations, Gestalt Australia and New Zealand (GANZ) and Psychotherapy and Counselling Federation of Australia (PACFA)

GTB also offers a number of one off professional development workshops throughout each year facilitated by both local and overseas professionals.

GTB is built on the hard work and accomplishments of the two Institutes that existed before 2008, namely, the Gestalt Association of Queensland Inc. and the Brisbane Gestalt Institute.

The Brisbane Gestalt Centre was established in 1980 by Yaro Starak, and in partnership with Maria Vogt it developed into the Brisbane Gestalt Institute (BGI).

The Gestalt Therapy and Training Centre established by Mac Hamilton offered its first program in 1991. In 1997 the Centre was formed into an Incorporated not for profit Association, the Gestalt Association of Queensland Inc. It offered higher education programs accredited by the Minister for Education Queensland from 1997, namely a Graduate Certificate and a Graduate Diploma. It received accreditation to deliver a Master program in 2004.

In 2008 the Gestalt Association of Queensland Inc and the Brisbane Gestalt Institute merged under joint ownership of Dr Greer White and Maria Vogt and created Gestalt Therapy Brisbane Pty Ltd.

Gestalt Therapy Brisbane promotes the growth and development of individuals, groups and the community.

Our aim is to enable students to develop their unique therapeutic style and make use of their creative abilities as human beings.

Transition Puzzle
Artist Bekky Buchanan

The four puzzle pieces represent the two institutes, the Brisbane Gestalt Institute and the Gestalt Association of Queensland Inc in transition, merging into one.

The blank or fertile void piece represents a fresh blank canvas for Gestalt Therapy Brisbane to form and create something new.

We are all a part of the puzzle! and of course the whole is different from the sum of its parts…