Marcin Rzeszutek
“Modern man lives under the illusion that he knows what he wants – while he actually wants what he is supposed to want.”
Erich Fromm
My qualifications
I am a Gestalt psychotherapist and psychologist who combines clinical practice with scientific research. I graduated from the School of Trainers and Psychotherapists at the Gestalt Institute (IG) in Krakow. I am also a professor at the Faculty of Psychology at the University of Warsaw, head of the Trauma Research Laboratory, where I conduct research and teaching in the area of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). I have a Gestalt psychotherapist certificate issued by IG, the European Certificate of Gestalt Psychotherapy (EAGT) and the European Certificate of Psychotherapy (ECP), which allows me to practice psychotherapy in most European Union countries. I gained clinical experience, among others: on two internships at the Independent Provincial Complex of Public Psychiatric Health Care Facilities in Warsaw at ul. Nowowiejska 27 and at the Association for Families in Warsaw. I have also been cooperating with the Gestalt Institute in Krakow for many years. Striving for continuous professional development and improvement of my psychotherapeutic qualifications, I regularly supervise my work and participate in various trainings, workshops and conferences for psychotherapists and psychologists.
What psychotherapy means to me
For me, psychotherapy is primarily an experience leading to a deeper understanding of myself and my life. In particular, it is a process in which the psychotherapist accompanies you in searching for your life path, engaging his attention, knowledge and emotions. I respect your individuality, your unique way of experiencing yourself and the world. That’s why he doesn’t advise, doesn’t impose his own vision of the world and doesn’t give simple recipes for happiness – which is especially important in today’s world increasingly dominated by “pop-psychology” and a lot of pseudoscientific nonsense. The psychotherapist knows the scope of his/her competences, but also takes care of their continuous development, i.e. he does not speak on every topic (see “celebrity therapists”), participates in training for psychotherapists and regularly supervises his work.
How I work
In my work, I use various methods derived from Gestalt psychotherapy, which is one of the leading approaches in the humanistic-existential trend. Gestalt psychotherapy was created by combining numerous psychological and philosophical concepts, including psychoanalysis, existentialism, Zen Buddhism and body work. Moreover, this trend also has its sources in academic psychology. All aspects of our functioning are organized into figures (Gestalts): behaviors, emotions, thoughts, needs, etc. Unfinished figures (“unfinished situations/unresolved problems from the past”) sometimes weigh on us throughout our lives. During Gestalt psychotherapy, we have the opportunity to close them and start a new, more self-aware and creative life. As a result, this allows a person to return to the often abandoned path of his/her authentic development, in which he/she will realize what he/she really wants and what results from who he/she really is.
Offer
Short- and long-term individual psychotherapy, also in English. Additionally, I conduct training therapy for students of the IG School of Trainers and Psychotherapists and other Gestalt schools in Poland.