Keyword: Gestalt therapy

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Unfinished Business and Gestalt Therapy January 13, 2010

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Unresolved childhood patterns drive adult behavior, and Gestalt therapy offers tools to name them. Armand DiMele walks through core Gestalt concepts including retroflection, deflection, confluence, and projection, showing how each keeps people stuck in the same drama. The episode opens with a heartfelt reflection on the Haiti earthquake.

Finding Your Balance with Gestalt Therapy January 12, 2010

Host: Armand DiMele
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

True balance comes from within, not from relationships, pills, or endless talk therapy. Armand DiMele introduces Gestalt therapy’s core ideas, including dream analysis and the here-and-now philosophy, while fielding calls from listeners stuck in old patterns and questioning whether antidepressants are actually working.

Sex Therapy and Intimacy with Dr. Judy Kuriansky January 5, 2006

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Judy Kuriansky, Stephanie D'Ambra
Category: Love & Romantic Relationships, Sexuality & Desire

Passion, technique, and emotional honesty are all part of good sex, argues Dr. Judy Kuriansky, a veteran sex therapist and protege of Masters and Johnson. She and Armand DiMele, joined by Stephanie D’Ambra, LCSW, debate Schnarch’s raw-desire model against Kuriansky’s view that intimacy is a skill built through practice, gestalt techniques, and her three A’s: acceptance, acknowledgment, and appreciation.

Breaking Free From Fixed Roles November 29, 2005

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Gladys Santopal, Sherry Oren King
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

When we cling to a fixed idea of who we are, something in the mind can sabotage us, as with a kicker who missed three field goals in front of his cheering family. Armand and two Gestalt therapists, Sherry Oren King and Gladys Santopal, explore how rigid self-concepts block authentic living and what awareness, inner reliance, and stopping the urge to change others can actually do.

Finding Your Voice with Naz Hussaini Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Naz Hussaini, Ora Yemini Morrison, Stephanie D'Ambra
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Identity & The Self

The voice as a gateway to the self: Gestalt therapist and musician Naz Hussaini demonstrates live in the studio how sound bypasses words to surface buried emotions. Armand DiMele, Ora Yemini-Morrison LCSW, and Stephanie D’Ambra LCSW all participate, revealing how tone, breath, and resonance expose fear, grief, and joy that language alone cannot reach.

Heartwarming Workshops with Dolly Shulman Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dolly Shulman
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Dolly Shulman, a Philadelphia psychotherapist who lost her mother at age six, shares how that early grief became the foundation of her lifelong work. Armand DiMele walks through her heartwarming workshops, where participants reconnect with childhood feelings, release buried emotions, and rediscover their inner essence.

Emotional Fitness with Dr. Vivian Wolsk Undated

Host: Armand DiMeleGuests: Dr. Vivian Wolsk
Category: Emotions & Inner Life, Personal Growth & Change

Most people are not emotionally ill, just emotionally out of shape. Armand DiMele and Dr. Vivian Wolsk, Executive Director of the Gestalt Center for Psychotherapy and Training, explore emotional fitness, the body’s role in identifying feelings, the empty chair technique, and why negative programming feels so compelling.