Vegard Nilsen

I offer individual therapy in my clinic at Grünerløkka in Oslo, and also digitally if desired.

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Conversational therapy can be an important support for you when you need someone to talk to, are stuck, or when you are seeking personal development, growth, or simply a change in your life. Going to therapy already means that you are taking your mental health seriously. By asking for help when you need it, you also take responsibility for yourself.

Clients come to therapy with various challenges in life: unprocessed painful experiences, anxiety, worries, grief, low mood, exhaustion, depression, difficult relationships, conflicts, low self-esteem, little joy in life, stuck patterns and emotional pain.

I hope that going to therapy with me will feel both safe and developmental.

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In Gestalt therapy, we work with all you – with your thoughts, your feelings and your body. The Gestalt therapist does not believe in forcing change and meets you on your own terms, without interpreting or judging. The emphasis is on making you aware of your own feelings, reactions and actions so that you can see yourself and your choices more clearly. This awareness is created through conversation and experiments.

One of the most important tools in Gestalt therapy is the therapist himself. The therapist is not objective or neutral, but subjective and involved in an I - You relationship with the client.

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Gestalt therapy was developed within the psychotherapeutic treatment tradition and is a form of therapy that emphasizes human abilities and possibilities rather than focusing on illness and deficiencies.

It is a direction within humanistic psychology and is based on existential-humanistic philosophy, phenomenology and Gestalt psychology. Today, Gestalt therapy appears as a well-developed theoretical and therapeutic model that has incorporated and further developed many central elements within both humanistic psychology, psychoanalysis and cognitive therapy. Existentialism emphasizes human freedom and thus its responsibility for its possibilities and choices. Gestalt therapy is simply explained as awareness training and exploration of choices. The feelings and thoughts that we are not aware of, always affect us. The feelings and thoughts that we are aware of, on the other hand, we have the opportunity to do something about.

One of the basic ideas in Gestalt therapy is that each person is responsible for their own choices and actions within the limitations of their surroundings. Gestalt therapy has developed methods to make people aware of their own feelings, reactions and actions so that they can more clearly recognize and see themselves and their choices. This awareness is created through conversation, experiments and role-playing. The methods are also used to process previous, unfinished experiences (which are called unfinished gestalts), crises and in self-development.

Gestalt therapy is not an easy or quick "cure". It can be painful and hurtful to relive previous episodes in life, recognize yourself where you are in life, see your own limitations and make choices. It can also be enriching, meaningful and inspiring.