Barbara Pompe-Gelissen - Gestalt therapist since 1996; member of the "Professional Association of Gestalt Therapists of the Netherlands", EAGT (European Association of Gestalt Therapists), EAGT-accredited supervisor. Member of the "Gestalt Development Foundation" (Netherlands). Works with all types of relationships: love relationships, family and work relationships; also a supervisor. In addition to being a Gestalt therapist, she is a mother, grandmother, wife and child, which, she says, is a great life experience; Barbara's hobbies are assembling mosaics and creative work. She completed a 6-year training program at the Gestalt School Bolt (Newall, Netherlands). Her trainers were Magda and Aye Marise. Barbara studied creative and body-oriented therapeutic work, and through working with groups she gained experience in working with groups and families, which was reinforced by training as a trainer. In Antwerp (Belgium), she took a course in relational therapy with Jan Lens (our supervisor, “Seg”) and May Mikkelsen. Gestalt therapist Seymour Carter from Esselen (California, USA) taught “sensory insights”; the skillful development of body insights. Anode Judith taught work on the energy body. She learned to work with trauma from Anode and Brandon Bays. Barbara continues to study constantly and is involved in refresher courses and intervision groups with colleagues. Her supervisor in individual client work is Ottelin Lame (Hilversum, the Netherlands), and in relational therapy her supervisors are Jan Lens and May Mikkelsen. . In addition to Gestalt practical work, Barbara worked with children at the 'Wilhelmina Children's Hospital'; she also worked with children using Gestalt therapy. She conducted creative projects in a youth penitentiary; she worked as a teacher at the 'Gestalt Practice School Bolt', where she conducted body-oriented Gestalt therapy trainings. In Gestalt therapy, she is most attracted by the phenomenon of contact and the therapeutic relationship between people, which heals. According to her, in contact a person develops himself, and when development stops, a pause is needed to discover what drives us. In this unique process, Barbara actively uses visual aids and a body-centered approach. She says that in addition to insight, a person can develop intuition.