Barbara Pompe-Gelissen has been a Gestalt therapist since 1996. She is a member of the Professional Association of Gestalt Therapists in the Netherlands and the European Association for Gestalt Therapy (EAGT), and is an EAGT-accredited supervisor. She is also a member of the Gestalt Development Foundation in the Netherlands.

Barbara works with all types of relationships, including romantic relationships, family relationships, and workplace relationships. She also works as a supervisor.

She completed a six-year training program at Gestalt School Bolt in Nieuwerkerk, the Netherlands. Her trainers were Magda and Aye Maris. She studied creative and body-oriented therapeutic approaches and gained extensive experience working with groups, as well as with families, which was further developed through training in trainer education.

In Antwerp, Belgium, she completed a relational therapy course with Jan Lense, her supervisor at SEGI, and Mei Mikkelsen. Gestalt therapist Seymour Carter from Esalen, California, taught her sensory awareness and the refined development of bodily awareness. Anodea Judith taught her energy-based bodywork. She also studied trauma work with Anodea Judith and Brandon Bays.

Barbara continues her professional development on an ongoing basis, participating in advanced training courses and intervision groups with colleagues. Her supervisor for individual client work is Otelin Lame in Hilversum, the Netherlands, while Jan Lense and Mei Mikkelsen supervise her work in relational therapy.

In addition to her Gestalt therapy practice, Barbara has worked with children at Wilhelmina Children's Hospital and has also provided Gestalt therapy to children. She has conducted creative projects in a juvenile detention facility. At Gestalt Practice School Bolt, she worked as a teacher, delivering training in body-oriented Gestalt therapy.

Barbara describes being a mother, grandmother, wife, and daughter as one of her greatest life experiences. Her hobbies include mosaic-making and creative work.

What interests Barbara most about Gestalt therapy is the phenomenon of contact and the therapeutic relationship between people as a healing process. In her view, people develop themselves through contact, and when development comes to a halt, a pause is needed to discover what drives us.

In this unique process, Barbara actively uses visual tools and a body-oriented approach. She believes that, beyond insight, people can also develop intuition.