Individual Therapy

The task of individual therapy –

• to work out your psychological problems and track changes in personality, develop stability in topics that are painful for you.
• to determine the range of topics with which the specialist will not be able to work, because he is vulnerable.
• individual therapy during training reinforces the theory.

Individual therapy is an essential part of the training and work of a Gestalt therapist.

Any person has the vital right to choose the therapist with whom he wants to undergo individual therapy according to his desire and taste.

But, since here we are talking about individual therapy as a prerequisite for the qualitative fulfillment by the participant of the Gestalt Therapy Training Program of the requirements of the training Program, then there are some recommendations and restrictions in choosing a therapist for individual therapy.

Only certified Gestalt therapists practicing from the institute can be recommended:

• MIGIS accredited trainers,
• assistants of the Programs in case they have a certificate for the II stage,
• Certified Gestalt Therapists who have completed or are studying III stage.

The list of recommended therapists is reviewed once a year. https://migis.ua/en/rekomendovannye-terapevty

General provisions on individual therapy and the rules for its accounting:

1. The requirement for certification is that the participant of the Program has completed at least 90 hours of individual therapy with a recommended therapist, of which at least 70 hours during the course of the training program (see also *Conditions for accounting hours of individual therapy)
2. You can work all the necessary hours for certification with one therapist, or you can change the recommended therapists during the training - the hours will count. But at least one of the therapists with whom the therapy was, it is necessary to undergo continuous long-term therapy of 40 sessions.
3. Pre-program individual therapy is considered to be therapy that began with the client (prospective student) at any time prior to the start of the program, but ended or continues in the year of commencement of study. Those. if the client underwent therapy from 2018 to 2021, and the program began in 2023, this therapy is not taken into account either in norms or in excess of them.
4. Prior to the start of the program, the client was treated by a recommended therapist or a certified therapist (stage II), who is not recommended and the number of such hours is more than 20, then all hours above the data will also go to the Certificate - in excess of the norm, but 20 hours will be counted towards the mandatory 90 hours .
5. Prior to the start of the program, the client was treated by a therapist who was not certified for stage II (trained or completed training at stage 2 without certification) and the number of such hours is more than 20, then only 20 hours passed before the start of training will be taken into account in the norms and in the Certificate, i.e. e. over hours are not counted.Only individual therapy in the gestalt direction counts towards the standards for certification and above them.

*Conditions for accounting hours of individual therapy:

1. If the Program participant did not receive personal therapy prior to the start of training, then hours of work only with the recommended therapist will be counted towards certification.
2. If the Program participant received personal therapy from a recommended therapist before the start of training, then 20 hours will be credited to him in the mandatory 90 hours.

Example 1: A client completed 50 hours of personal therapy with a recommended therapist prior to training. 20 hours will count towards the standard. And at the end of the training, it will indicate the passage of 90 hours of mandatory + 30 hours (50-20), which were before the start of training = 120 hours

2.1. If a client comes to the training program of another trainer/assistant on the recommendation of his therapist (began to undergo therapy with him before the start of training), then:

• recommended therapist

can continue to work with his client, whom he invited to the training Program of another trainer (assistant) and beyond (hours of therapy during the program will be counted towards the total number of required hours).

• certified for stage II therapist who is not recommended

may continue to work with his client whom he has called into another trainer/assistant training program and beyond (therapy hours will be counted towards the total number of required hours) if he regularly takes supervision from the supervisors of the Institute.

• non-Certified Level 2 Therapist (trained or completed Level 2 without certification)

it is possible to credit no more than 30 hours of individual therapy for a client whom he invited to the training program of another trainer/assistant completed during the first year of training, if he regularly takes supervision from the supervisors of the Institute.

Example 1

accounting hours for a non-certified therapist:

Prior to the start of the training, the client went through 15 sessions and continued to work with the therapist further, in the learning process.

15 hours (before the start of training) + 30* (during the first year of study) = 45 hours credited to the client

* you can work more hours. but only 30 counts.

Example 2

accounting hours for a non-certified therapist:

Prior to the start of the training, the client went through 30 sessions and continued to work with the therapist further, in the learning process.

The client is credited with 20 hours (before the start of training) + 30* (during the first year of study) = 50 hours credited

* you can work more hours. but only 30 counts.

2.2. If the client comes to the training program of his therapist (regardless of the position of the therapist in the program: trainer/assistant), then:

- therapy with this client must be completed within 12 sessions, as a transitional period from the position of therapist to trainers / assistants.

These 12 hours of therapy, as well as 20 before the start of the program, will be included in the client's mandatory norms.

The trainer/assistant: is obliged to inform his client about these conditions before the start of training, and the client - to decide in what relationship he wants to stay with this specialist: i personal therapy or go into a training program.

It is possible for the therapist to continue to work with the client for more than 12 hours during the training, but without offsetting the norms if the Program Manager agrees to this. However, at any time during the training program, the program leader has the right to insist on termination of such therapeutic relationship between the client/student and the therapist/trainer/assistant. I draw your attention to the fact that such consent must be obtained before the start of the program, and the client must be informed about these conditions and must also agree.

In order for the hours passed before the start of training in the Program to be credited, it is necessary:

• independently indicate the number of hours passed and the full name of the therapist in the participant's questionnaire, which he fills out at the first seminar of the training Program,
• if the therapy was with a recommended or another (see * "Conditions for Accounting Individual Therapy Hours") therapist, then the student or therapist, at the request of the student, transmits data on the hours of individual therapy passed to the MIGIS office manager in the first month of the start of training, no later than six months from the start of training.

In order for therapy hours to be counted, the therapist must notify the office of the MIGIS manager and transmit monthly data on such therapy (client and number of sessions).

Exceptions: if the therapist is from another institution, then the data on the hours are transmitted upon completion of such therapy (or upon certification of the student) in the form of a certificate from the therapist, which states:

• Name of the therapist who received personal therapy;
• data about his gestalt education;
• number of hours of therapy before the start of training in the program;
• period of time.