My T does Gestaly therapy and I'm not sure it's the best for me. Correction, I am sure it is not the best for me, but right now I don't have other options plus don't want to leave and start agin from the beginning.
I think it helps though, but it is a bit too chaotic, jumping from topic to topic, and I feel I'm getting lost. It seems to have a lot of emphasis on me being a responsible adult and I sometimes just to be a child there...Or need some guidance, I don't know.
Otherwise I like the freedom in it, in comparison with CBT for example where all we did were exercises.
There is this element of trying to keep everything in the present moment, and sometimes I hate that because I want to talk about my childhood but I feel I shouldn't, I don't know. He doesn't say I shuldn't, I can talk about anything, but still.
I think there is potential, but I miss some kind of structure and connection, like I'd like my T to ask me about what I told him last time, but he almost never does. Like if I start talking about an issue at the end of the session, next time he won't ask about it. It's like amnesia therapy. I guess this is the present-moment focus thing...
And very often I only warm up towards the end, so then I open up but it ends too fast.