Gestalt Therapists in Frisco, TX
Each person is unique and so is what they come in with. Therapy is not a one-size-fits-all process. In fact, I pull from different treatment protocols to find what best fits you. This isn't a place where I tell you what to do or give advice, but a place where I join in with you in your process and we collaborate together to meet your needs. My goal is for therapy to be as efficient as possible, working through what we need to each session and maximizing a felt connection by undoing aloneness.
Each person is unique and so is what they come in with. Therapy is not a one-size-fits-all process. In fact, I pull from different treatment protocols to find what best fits you. This isn't a place where I tell you what to do or give advice, but a place where I join in with you in your process and we collaborate together to meet your needs. My goal is for therapy to be as efficient as possible, working through what we need to each session and maximizing a felt connection by undoing aloneness.
My main types of therapy are CBT, Solution Focused, Gestalt, Humanistic, Gottman Method, and person centered.
Ruben's practice is comprised of Play Therapy, Couples Counseling, Anger Resolution Therapy, Insomnia Treatment, and Individual therapy for a variety of issues. Our lives can pull us in many directions. It is during these times that we can feel out of sorts. I provide a supportive environment that fosters growth and encouragement, that can help you get your life back in balance. (EVENING AND SATURDAY MORNING APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE). ONLINE THERAPY SESSIONS AVAILABLE FOR ANY RESIDENTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS !
My main types of therapy are CBT, Solution Focused, Gestalt, Humanistic, Gottman Method, and person centered.
Ruben's practice is comprised of Play Therapy, Couples Counseling, Anger Resolution Therapy, Insomnia Treatment, and Individual therapy for a variety of issues. Our lives can pull us in many directions. It is during these times that we can feel out of sorts. I provide a supportive environment that fosters growth and encouragement, that can help you get your life back in balance. (EVENING AND SATURDAY MORNING APPOINTMENTS AVAILABLE). ONLINE THERAPY SESSIONS AVAILABLE FOR ANY RESIDENTS IN THE STATE OF TEXAS !
Sometimes life and things get to be "a bit too much." We all deal with things differently. My focus is helping clients chart a path towards greater wellbeing and fulfillment, so that they can ultimately live a happy and healthy life that matters. This means an individualized treatment plan and goals which we will collaborate together. My work is insight driven. I am passionate about helping others develop deeper understanding and acceptance for themselves, the world and the experiences which we encounter.
Sometimes life and things get to be "a bit too much." We all deal with things differently. My focus is helping clients chart a path towards greater wellbeing and fulfillment, so that they can ultimately live a happy and healthy life that matters. This means an individualized treatment plan and goals which we will collaborate together. My work is insight driven. I am passionate about helping others develop deeper understanding and acceptance for themselves, the world and the experiences which we encounter.
I believe that every person has the capabilities and qualities needed to achieve and keep happiness in their lives, they just sometimes have a hard time getting there on their own. That's where I come in! In our sessions we will work on coping skills and mechanisms using DBT, CBT, and more in order to ground ourselves and regulate our emotions in this crazy world. I accept kids, preteens, teens, young adults, and older struggling with anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma, addiction, and more.
I believe that every person has the capabilities and qualities needed to achieve and keep happiness in their lives, they just sometimes have a hard time getting there on their own. That's where I come in! In our sessions we will work on coping skills and mechanisms using DBT, CBT, and more in order to ground ourselves and regulate our emotions in this crazy world. I accept kids, preteens, teens, young adults, and older struggling with anxiety, depression, life transitions, trauma, addiction, and more.
I work with clients who feel trapped, stagnant, frustrated, and fearful in their current circumstances. If you are looking for relief from a painful and frustrating relationship or situation, I can help you identify barriers keeping you from transitioning into your best possible life.
I work with clients who feel trapped, stagnant, frustrated, and fearful in their current circumstances. If you are looking for relief from a painful and frustrating relationship or situation, I can help you identify barriers keeping you from transitioning into your best possible life.
I believe that counseling has the potential to help a person unlock his/her ultimate potential. I utilize a humanistic approach to therapy that seeks to help a person integrate mind and body, in an effort to achieve wholeness. However, I believe the power of the therapeutic relationship is quintessential for success with clients. My priority is to help clients feel safe and open in order to explore past and/or current issues.
I believe that counseling has the potential to help a person unlock his/her ultimate potential. I utilize a humanistic approach to therapy that seeks to help a person integrate mind and body, in an effort to achieve wholeness. However, I believe the power of the therapeutic relationship is quintessential for success with clients. My priority is to help clients feel safe and open in order to explore past and/or current issues.
I work well with clients from all walks of life who have identified that something is not working for them and they would like to enhance their "tool set." While I am able to work with a wide range of issues, the most common that tend to present themselves are related to changes in life, anxiety, or depression. I believe that each person tries to do the best they can with what they have. Sometimes what we have is not quite enough for a problem and we need to learn a more effective way of dealing with issues. It is not in my ability to change a person, I only help them change themselves to the degree they are willing.
I work well with clients from all walks of life who have identified that something is not working for them and they would like to enhance their "tool set." While I am able to work with a wide range of issues, the most common that tend to present themselves are related to changes in life, anxiety, or depression. I believe that each person tries to do the best they can with what they have. Sometimes what we have is not quite enough for a problem and we need to learn a more effective way of dealing with issues. It is not in my ability to change a person, I only help them change themselves to the degree they are willing.
I am an EMDR and Neurofeedback-trained Licensed Professional Counselor. I have experience working with individuals, families, teens, and adolescents. I am bilingual in English and Arabic. My approach in therapy is existential and person-centered oriented. I like to take my time to listen and challenge a client’s thoughts so that we can expand on self-awareness.
I am also a board-approved supervisor for therapists working towards independent licensure.
I am an EMDR and Neurofeedback-trained Licensed Professional Counselor. I have experience working with individuals, families, teens, and adolescents. I am bilingual in English and Arabic. My approach in therapy is existential and person-centered oriented. I like to take my time to listen and challenge a client’s thoughts so that we can expand on self-awareness.
I am also a board-approved supervisor for therapists working towards independent licensure.
Is your relationship stuck in a cycle of conflict? Are you often agitated, overwhelmed, or depressed? Is ongoing tension making it hard to like each other? Therapy is a safe space to gain insights and skills. You can build tools for healthier communication and managing your emotions. If you have trouble expressing your feelings, enforcing boundaries, or regulating your emotions in disagreements, therapy can help you live better. Learn techniques to navigate conflict, enhance communication, identify and break unhealthy patterns, and build empathy. You can have a more compassionate, supportive, and understanding relationship.
Is your relationship stuck in a cycle of conflict? Are you often agitated, overwhelmed, or depressed? Is ongoing tension making it hard to like each other? Therapy is a safe space to gain insights and skills. You can build tools for healthier communication and managing your emotions. If you have trouble expressing your feelings, enforcing boundaries, or regulating your emotions in disagreements, therapy can help you live better. Learn techniques to navigate conflict, enhance communication, identify and break unhealthy patterns, and build empathy. You can have a more compassionate, supportive, and understanding relationship.
Lack confidence? Struggle with anxiety? What happens when you encounter pressure to perform? Do you get overwhelmed? Stressed? Feel confused on how to make changes? Coping with addictive behavior?
I am here to help! Through a short assessment process, we identify your innate mental wiring to prepare, predict, and even prevent when you struggle. This simple process leads to customized life/mental skills training to create consistent high performance in your sport or career path.
And, yes, parents, I can help you draw the best out of your athlete.
Lack confidence? Struggle with anxiety? What happens when you encounter pressure to perform? Do you get overwhelmed? Stressed? Feel confused on how to make changes? Coping with addictive behavior?
I am here to help! Through a short assessment process, we identify your innate mental wiring to prepare, predict, and even prevent when you struggle. This simple process leads to customized life/mental skills training to create consistent high performance in your sport or career path.
And, yes, parents, I can help you draw the best out of your athlete.
Positive Approach Counseling PLLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, MS, LPC, EMDR-C, DBT-C
2 Endorsed
Frisco, TX 75034
Immediate in person or telehealth available. Teenagers, Couples, Adults, TraumaWhen you feel you can’t achieve anything, your first reaction is to stay away from people. Then it becomes worse, goals you had before become impossible and the idea of loved ones could do better without you start to surface. Your mind tells you that the situation is hopeless and you are worthless. You drift to past experiences where you cringe physically and are filled with regret. Life becomes extremely boring due to you letting your fear control your life. Meeting new people and having new experiences doesn’t happen. You think you’re better off alone.
Immediate in person or telehealth available. Teenagers, Couples, Adults, TraumaWhen you feel you can’t achieve anything, your first reaction is to stay away from people. Then it becomes worse, goals you had before become impossible and the idea of loved ones could do better without you start to surface. Your mind tells you that the situation is hopeless and you are worthless. You drift to past experiences where you cringe physically and are filled with regret. Life becomes extremely boring due to you letting your fear control your life. Meeting new people and having new experiences doesn’t happen. You think you’re better off alone.
Stress and trauma can resurface at any time, causing individuals to feel overwhelmed, numb, and ashamed. Alison is honored to help her clients reclaim safety, strength, and resilience throughout their healing journey. Alison can help with, trauma, PTSD, family conflict, addiction, anxiety, behavioral issues, codependency, coping skills, depression, grief, life transitions, mood disorders, parenting, relationship issues, self esteem, self-harming, stress, suicidal ideation, sexual abuse, LGBTQIA+ issues and more. Alison’s approach with clients of all ages is based on building trust, fostering empowerment, and nurturing resilience.
Stress and trauma can resurface at any time, causing individuals to feel overwhelmed, numb, and ashamed. Alison is honored to help her clients reclaim safety, strength, and resilience throughout their healing journey. Alison can help with, trauma, PTSD, family conflict, addiction, anxiety, behavioral issues, codependency, coping skills, depression, grief, life transitions, mood disorders, parenting, relationship issues, self esteem, self-harming, stress, suicidal ideation, sexual abuse, LGBTQIA+ issues and more. Alison’s approach with clients of all ages is based on building trust, fostering empowerment, and nurturing resilience.
Are you a business owner or professional in Frisco, TX thriving in your career but struggling in your personal life or relationships? You’re accomplished, driven, and successful at work—but your personal life doesn’t feel as steady or fulfilling. I specialize in helping high-achieving professionals and entrepreneurs navigate these challenges with both clarity and confidence. I also work with adults 18+ struggling with anxiety or depression.
You don't have to sacrifice your well-being for success. If you’re ready to make meaningful changes, I’m here to support you in Frisco, Texas and virtually across the state.
Are you a business owner or professional in Frisco, TX thriving in your career but struggling in your personal life or relationships? You’re accomplished, driven, and successful at work—but your personal life doesn’t feel as steady or fulfilling. I specialize in helping high-achieving professionals and entrepreneurs navigate these challenges with both clarity and confidence. I also work with adults 18+ struggling with anxiety or depression.
You don't have to sacrifice your well-being for success. If you’re ready to make meaningful changes, I’m here to support you in Frisco, Texas and virtually across the state.
I believe that everyone has a right to live the life that they desire; however, life does not always work out as we hope. We cannot predict the events that will happen to us or how they will impact our lives. However, we can choose how we will respond to those events. As a therapist, I have the opportunity to be a partner as you work to improve your life. I believe that education, practical application, evidence-based techniques, and a focus on measurable outcomes are the fastest ways to achieve the client’s goals. I think that therapy should be as brief as necessary, with a primary focus on helping the client achieve their goals.
I believe that everyone has a right to live the life that they desire; however, life does not always work out as we hope. We cannot predict the events that will happen to us or how they will impact our lives. However, we can choose how we will respond to those events. As a therapist, I have the opportunity to be a partner as you work to improve your life. I believe that education, practical application, evidence-based techniques, and a focus on measurable outcomes are the fastest ways to achieve the client’s goals. I think that therapy should be as brief as necessary, with a primary focus on helping the client achieve their goals.
My approach to counseling combines Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Reality, and Gestalt theories.
I'm passionate about serving the dually diagnosed population; those with a mental health diagnosis who are also struggling with addiction. My unique educational background enables me to provide a truly individualized approach to recovery by combining art and science.
My approach to counseling combines Solution Focused, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Reality, and Gestalt theories.
I'm passionate about serving the dually diagnosed population; those with a mental health diagnosis who are also struggling with addiction. My unique educational background enables me to provide a truly individualized approach to recovery by combining art and science.
My client-centered approach integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gestalt, IFS, and EMDR theories to foster growth and resilience.
Sometimes the weight of everything becomes too much to carry. Then you feel invisible, unmotivated, or disconnected from the person you know you can be. If you're struggling to set boundaries, craving more meaningful connections, or carrying grief and trauma that never quite healed, I want you to know that change is possible, and you don't have to figure it out alone. My work is not to fix you, because you are not broken. It is to sit with you, understand you, and help you rediscover your Self, strength and wisdom that have always lived within you.
My client-centered approach integrates Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Gestalt, IFS, and EMDR theories to foster growth and resilience.
Sometimes the weight of everything becomes too much to carry. Then you feel invisible, unmotivated, or disconnected from the person you know you can be. If you're struggling to set boundaries, craving more meaningful connections, or carrying grief and trauma that never quite healed, I want you to know that change is possible, and you don't have to figure it out alone. My work is not to fix you, because you are not broken. It is to sit with you, understand you, and help you rediscover your Self, strength and wisdom that have always lived within you.
My approach to counseling combines Solution Focused, Reality, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Gestalt theories.
I'm passionate about serving the dually diagnosed population; those with a mental health diagnosis who are also struggling with addiction as well as ADHD and relationship issues. My unique educational background and work experience gives me the knowledge and skills to advocate for those who are unable to advocate for themselves.
My approach to counseling combines Solution Focused, Reality, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, and Gestalt theories.
I'm passionate about serving the dually diagnosed population; those with a mental health diagnosis who are also struggling with addiction as well as ADHD and relationship issues. My unique educational background and work experience gives me the knowledge and skills to advocate for those who are unable to advocate for themselves.
Seeking help takes courage. It means acknowledging that we don’t always have all the answers and that sometimes we need support in navigating life’s challenges. If you’re struggling with sexual concerns, behavioral addiction, developmental trauma related to abuse or neglect, or other issues affecting your mental and emotional well-being, you’re in the right place. It would be an honor to walk alongside you on your journey toward healing.
Seeking help takes courage. It means acknowledging that we don’t always have all the answers and that sometimes we need support in navigating life’s challenges. If you’re struggling with sexual concerns, behavioral addiction, developmental trauma related to abuse or neglect, or other issues affecting your mental and emotional well-being, you’re in the right place. It would be an honor to walk alongside you on your journey toward healing.
Imagine facing the world with a sense of confidence and peace instead of fear or shame. Imagine looking at your partner and being filled with feelings of love, gratitude, and excitement. Imagine waking up to feel freed from your past and free to live your future! During periods of struggle, we can feel isolated and directionless in our experience and not where to turn or what to do. As a human, I understand suffering. As a therapist, my intention is to honor every part of your humanness and walk alongside you on the path towards wellness.
Imagine facing the world with a sense of confidence and peace instead of fear or shame. Imagine looking at your partner and being filled with feelings of love, gratitude, and excitement. Imagine waking up to feel freed from your past and free to live your future! During periods of struggle, we can feel isolated and directionless in our experience and not where to turn or what to do. As a human, I understand suffering. As a therapist, my intention is to honor every part of your humanness and walk alongside you on the path towards wellness.
Through their work at The Heart of Counseling and Wellness, clients learn ways to break negative behavioral patterns, gain healthy coping tools, and receive psychoeducation on mental health. My main focus is intergenerational trauma. I work with my clients to gain an understanding of what happened to them and how it affects how they show up today. My goal is to walk with each client to get to the heart of what brings them through my door. I believe that with support and empowerment, individuals can have fulfilling and healthy lives.
Through their work at The Heart of Counseling and Wellness, clients learn ways to break negative behavioral patterns, gain healthy coping tools, and receive psychoeducation on mental health. My main focus is intergenerational trauma. I work with my clients to gain an understanding of what happened to them and how it affects how they show up today. My goal is to walk with each client to get to the heart of what brings them through my door. I believe that with support and empowerment, individuals can have fulfilling and healthy lives.
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Gestalt Therapists
What is gestalt therapy?
Gestalt therapy is based on the idea that to address unresolved negative feelings, emotions must be not only discussed but also actively expressed in the present moment. The term is from a German word meaning “whole,” and gestalt therapists believe that people should be considered whole entities made up of mind, body, and emotions. Gestalt sessions are rooted in the notion that a client’s total self must be discovered, explored, and confronted, so that they can take greater responsibility for themselves and their behavior, learn to satisfy their own needs while still respecting the needs of others, and reconnect with feelings they might otherwise deny.
How does gestalt therapy work?
Gestalt therapy sessions do not just involve talking with a therapist. Clients may take part in role-playing, re-enactment, or artistic exercises like drawing and painting, with the goal of becoming more aware of negative thought patterns that limit happiness. One common gestalt exercise is “the empty chair,” in which a client sits across from an empty chair representing a partner, relative, boss, or a part of themselves—and, with the therapist’s encouragement, improvises a dialog with it. The intention is to bring the emotions raised by past conflicts into the present and work through them in the moment.
How long does gestalt therapy last?
As with most forms of talk therapy, there is no set duration or end point for gestalt therapy; people who believe that they are making progress typically continue until they feel they’ve addressed the issues that had been holding them back. New patients should understand that it may take some time to become comfortable with gestalt exercises but once they do, they should expect sessions to extend for a number of months, typically spanning at least 12 sessions.
Does gestalt therapy work?
Gestalt therapy has generally been found to be as effective as other forms of talk therapy in helping people living with anxiety, depression, phobias, bipolar disorder, and substance use disorders, as well as helping individuals reduce conflict in relationships. Gestalt techniques, on their own or in combination with other therapies, can also be effective in managing physical ailments including ulcerative colitis, migraines, and back spasms. It should be noted that some people may have trouble adapting to gestalt therapy’s lack of formal structure or to a therapist’s close observations of their body language and emotions; others may struggle to commit to techniques that feel unnatural, like the empty chair exercise.