PSYCHOTHERAPY

Massimo Reale also works as a Gestalt Psychotherapist and Art Therapist and is a member of the Order of Psychologists of Tuscany.

Within the therapeutic setting, she develops individual paths for the treatment of disorders and problems related to the psychological sphere, such as anxiety, depression, phobias, trauma treatment with the support of specific Gestalt techniques and Ericksonian hypnosis.

She focuses on parenting support, personal growth, assertiveness and facilitating communication within couples, adolescents and families.

In the Gestalt orientation, much importance is given to the person’s perception of himself in relation to the reality that surrounds him. Too often, in fact, the person is trapped in narratives and behaviours that belong to the past and that are no longer useful for dealing with the reality that surrounds us ‘Here and Now’.

In order to promote a better adaptation to the “Here and Now”, he uses, in addition to Gestalt tools, the dramatisation techniques he has learnt in his long activity as an actor and the artistic mediators he has explored in the First Level Master’s Course at the Pontifical University “Antonianum” in Rome and in the Three-year School of Art Therapy directed by Oliviero Rossi.

The relaxation and hypnosis techniques I learnt at the Milton Erickson Institute in Turin are also present in my work with individuals and couples to help them get in touch with their own resources and explore how to use them for their own benefit.

The psychotherapeutic process is therefore geared towards the emergence of a new self-narrative, and the search for hitherto unknown or under-utilised resources.

Facilitating the person or couple to change and bring up-to-date their tools for dealing with today and supporting them in changing their point of view on the reality they live and have lived in their past is one of the main objectives of the work.

It is indeed important to achieve concrete changes in our lives by overcoming past traumas and learned and no longer functional patterns of behaviour, giving voice to our emotions and needs by listening to the various parts of us and making them dialogue through specific techniques of Gestalt psychotherapy, Hypnosis and through the tools of Art and creativity.