Books

We offer the following books/ebooks for sale:

eBooks:

NEW!! The Substance-Abuse Counselor: Family-of-Origin Influences on Personal Growth and Therapeutic Effectiveness

This eBook explores Strengths, Hindrances, and Personal/professional Growth Potential of the more than 40 – 60% Addiction Professionals who are self-identified Adult Children of Alcoholics/Chemically Dependent parents in addition to the many clinicians who are themselves in recovery. While each individual has unique values, research has identified characteristics and specific traits the ACOA brings to the counseling profession. The text provides examples of various self-perceived roles and preferred choice for therapeutic approaches as well as staff communication and interaction. The text offers many practical suggestions/interventions to raise client and staff awareness, and to facilitate support for professional development and excellence. This eBook is essential reading for supervisor, instructors, and staff.

Price $27

Creating the Good Life - Finishing Unfinished Business Important Implications for Therapy and Coaching

The topic of this eBook describes how hanging on to old experiences and painful memories from the past tend to prevent the creation of a happy and satisfying life in the ongoing present. When reading Creating the Good Life, individual readers and professionals alike will become acquainted with many approaches that will support the undoing and healing of painful memories. There are also suggestions for bringing about forgiveness and creating a life of freedom and joy that had not been conceived possible.

Read what others say about this eBook

Price $17

Addiction Resistance Forgiveness And Treatment

The seven chapters of this popular eBook provide a stunning glimpse of how a positive addiction treatment approach using a Gestalt perspective can transform an individual's life to freedom. This eBook explains the process of contributing family of origin factors prior to the onset of substance abuse contributing to full addiction and eventual recovery.

Read what others say about this eBook

Price $25

Multi-Phasic Transformation Process

An internationally published and translated version of this eBook provides a detailed and unique treatment progression for addictions from onset to recovery. Illustrations of the flow of experience charts of the Gestalt Experience Cycle and clinical examples provide all clinicians with a process and profound perspective of a holistic and humanistic addiction treatment from a Gestalt Therapy perspective.

Read what others say about this eBook

Price $20

Synthesis of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Therapeutic Community Treatment for Addiction/Mental Health Troubled Clients: A Gestalt Therapy Perspective

This evidence based acclaimed text provides every clinician with an in-depth synthesized exploration for a Residential Addiction Treatment setting. The reader will become acquainted with DBT, Gestalt, Affect, and Attachment theories. The eBook includes a section containing many relevant worksheets for the treatment team, clients, and groups alike.

Read what others say about this eBook

Price $30

DVD:

Synthesis of Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Therapeutic Community Treatment for Addiction/Mental Health Troubled Clients: A Gestalt Therapy Perspective

This 1hr-45 minute DVD video provides a synthesis of Linehan’s Dialectical Behavior Therapy and Addiction treatment in a therapeutic Addiction/Mental Health community. The video is a condensation of a 30-hr workshop for clinicians of one of the largest addiction treatment agencies in the US. The theory presented in the video offers salient points presented in the expanded Manual/Workbook (sold separately) of the same name and is equally applicable to addiction and mental health treatment in any kind of setting. Individual, family or group therapy will be greatly enhanced by live demonstration and use of theory-specific skills of this synthesized material.

Read what others say about this DVD

Price $30

Free eBook Signup
“Resistance: a neglected positive force in therapy”

Your will also receive a FREE subscription to our Gestalting Your Day newsletter delivered right to your inbox monthly

We respect your email privacy.

Special Announcements

Are you a Coach or Addiction Professional who wants to have greater impact working with your Addiction-Recovering clients?

Join us for a FREE call, "Beyond Recovery Coaching Class"

Working with clients who are attempting to recover successfully from a large variety of addictive habits requires a great deal of education or if in recovery themselves, an uncanny ability to think creatively to become fully engaged and present with the client’s way of being in the world. This free class will introduce you to some proven practices to enable you to flex your creative thinking muscles and with your clients, enjoy amazing progress.

Class will be held January 19, 2012 at 12pm ET

Gestalt Therapy

Gestalt therapy is a holistic, creative therapy emphasizing health rather than pathology. We restore the individual to emotional health, raise awareness to present experience, explore the whole body-mind-(dis)connection and restore healthy interdependent functioning with the environment.

Gestalt Coaching

We assist you to create a value-based life that truly works for you, one that holds the potential to unleash energy and excitement, creating possibilities toward fulfilling your potential. You will learn necessary skills and have unwavering support in this process of becoming.

Gestalt Training

Taking Gestalt training will provide you with professional confidence, learn tools and nuanced applications of a holistic Gestalt theory, and create organic, lasting change in your client. Taught by Helga Matzko in small training groups to enhance in-depth learning and growth.