Hello everyone! I’ll tell you about my personal experience of working with a psychologist. Like most of my colleagues, I came to therapy for support, so to speak, to treat my cockroaches. How did I get to this point? support from family and friends, depression, burnout, apathy. I thought, decided and weighed for a very long time. Do I need a psychologist, maybe I can cope somehow on my own? Stereotypical thinking created additional barriers. “Those who have gone crazy need a psychologist,” I thought. In the end, I decided to try my luck. I started not with personal therapy, as many do, but with group therapy. I was too scared and incomprehensible to work one-on-one, and no one could explain the whole point to me, I was so undeveloped. Group therapy within the framework of the Gestalt approach turned out to be exactly the resource that I so badly needed. I was pretty good with empathy, but with self-sensitivity, everything was just terrible. Through working in a group, through the responses of other people, I slowly felt myself. It was only after a year of classes that I was finally able to understand the importance of personal therapy. But not everything was so simple, for some time I went to a psychologist, but my internal resistance to change was too strong, so I quit. I continued to go to the group. After a while, I realized that I had already changed a little, that I had already begun to understand myself better. I decided to go to training. I was educated as a psychologist at the Voronezh State Pedagogical University, and at the same time studied at the Gestalt Institute (MGI). I started going to a psychologist because... this is the main requirement that must be met for further work with people. Now I myself conduct receptions, build my practical activities, and at the same time continue to study. If you have decided to change your life for the better or are in thought, I will tell you something about my vision of this work. Gestalt therapy, for me, is a laboratory of relationships. Nobody teaches us how to properly establish and build reliable, trusting relationships. Since childhood, we are given a “map” that our grandfathers and great-grandfathers used; these coordinates have long been outdated and have become obsolete, but they shove them at us and also demand that we strictly adhere to these data. In Gestalt, we learn to throw away what is given to us doesn’t fit, we learn to add new data to our “map”, boldly swim forward and discover new objects, expand our horizons. When internal navigation systems are set up, then it becomes easier to live and enjoy life. Well, in conclusion. Who is a Gestalt therapist, you ask. I will answer you: a “gestalt therapist” is an assistant, a support, a guide, a support. PS Time heals if you are treated and not turn a blind eye to the disease.