ELISABETH HELENE SÆTHER (1959)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

First and foremost, I want to work with “my own unfinished busuness” and find out what it is that makes us so vulnerable to trauma and what it is that makes it often take so long before we focus on what has affected us.

It took me many years before I realized that I also was traumatized, had unfinished gestalts, fixed gestalts or traumas. And a life I didn’t quite recognize as mine ((: Through my work with myself, I have experienced how this early influence in my life has influenced the life I have lived, the choices I have made and how I have stopped myself, judged myself and really not known who I have been!

For the most part, I have lived in my creative adjustment and survival strategies - and that’s ok! That’s why I am here today and starting, bit by bit, slowly but surely - to live the life I want to live.

I am by no means finished, I also go to therapy regularly - so that I also experience this in my own body! Therefore I can teach this to gestalt therapists with their own clinical practice. I love my job as a supervisor for therapists, students and as a supervisor for those who want to experience and explore the FIELD SUPPORT model.

EDUCATION:
Otherwise I am a qualified teacher. I have a five-year coaching education in addition to a supervisor education in dream work. Studied Psychosynthesis (transpersonal psychology) for two years at the Norwegian Institute for Psychosynthesis and transferred to a four-year Gestalt therapy education at the Norwegian Gestalt Institute College, where I also worked as a substitute teacher and supervisor for 7 years. I have taken both continuing education and supervisor education for Gestalt therapists and I am an approved supervisor MNGF (member of the EAGT trough NGF) and supervise other Gestalt therapists. I have also looked into several trauma modalities, but I have landed on the Gestalt method, "my way".

For the last years I have also worked as a teacher at the Gestalt Institute in Krakow and have my own continuing education at the institute where qualified Gestalt therapists/ and other modality learn to work with the field support method. I also work in Hungary with continuing education and supervition and hypervition of Gestalt therapists and supervisors together with Gestalt colleague Rieka Horosz.