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Marie Nellens

... is a Gestalt therapist with years of experience in guiding clients with significant emotional burdens. As a former visual artist, she believes in the power of imagination, metaphors, and visual expression. During sessions, she translates clients' stories into clarifying drawings and much more on the spot. This offers a healing way for them to look at themselves and their surroundings. Marie Nellens' approach is generous, empathetic, and innovative, as is her deep conviction that every person deserves to be seen and heard, beyond words.

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Gestalt therapy?

Gestalt therapy is based on the client's world of experience, on what is in the foreground here and now. Gestalt therapy does not view the client in isolation, but within their situation or the environment in which they live and act. In other words: the Gestalt therapist tries to help the client in their interaction with the environment, with others.

Therapist and client together seek the best possible form (gestalt) to engage in contact or relationship with the environment, with others. In doing so, they take into account the possibilities and demands of the situation or the environment in which the client lives and acts.

Gestalt therapy aims to facilitate the interaction between the person and their environment, particularly where the client currently feels less free and is stuck in old reaction patterns.

Courses

  • Student of Buddhism
  • Visual Arts at Sint-Lucas Antwerp, followed by a bachelor's degree.
  • 4-year Gestalt therapy training at IVC-Kortrijk
  • Systems therapy training, Herman Cools, 2 years
  • Fundamentals of phenomenological gestalt psychopathology Gianni Francesetti, Ipsig-Italy (specialization training on borderline, eating disorders, narcissism, depression, suicide, OCD, panic)
  • Specialization with various institutions regarding giftedness
  • Compassionate Inquiry Online 1-year therapy course - Gabor Maté
  • Working with couples - one-year relationship therapy training at School4power
  • EMDR - trauma therapy EMDR 1 at Integrativa
  • Gestalt therapy training for working with adolescents & young adults - play therapy led by Felicia Carroll U.S.A - Oaklander Foundation, Germany
  • Dialectical Behavior Therapy DBT - KU-Leuven.
  • Training 1 & 2 contextual work with schema puppets at Lerenoverleven
  • Post-academic training for professionals on high sensitivity (HSP) with Elke Van Hoof VUB-Brussels
  • Nonviolent Communication intensive training by Marshall Rosenberg
  • Group dynamics training IVC-Kortrijk
  • Mindfulness training at I-am
  • In-depth study of psychopathology DSM 5
  • I attend monthly supervision, intervision, and therapy with, among others, Herman Cools and Peter Adriaenssens.
  • I participate in monthly intervision and supervision as part of a team and continue my education.

Professional Association: NVAGT and VBEGP (Dutch Flemish Association for Gestalt Therapy and Gestalt Theory)

More inspiration from where it all began:

 Download thesis (2013-2017)

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