Juha Takanen – Gestalt Therapy in Helsinki
Gestalt therapist
Juha Takanen is a Gestalt therapist based in Helsinki, Finland. They offer Gestalt Therapy (3 years of experience). Topics include Anger Difficulties, Dealing With Anxiety, Dealing With Stress, Feeling Lost, and Marriage Or Relationship Issues. Languages: English and Finnish.
Gestalt Therapy
3 years of experience
Gestalt-terapia: Yhdistä tunteesi ja tarpeesi nyt! - Suomi
Video transcript
Hi, I'm Juha Takanen, Gestalt therapist and coach. Gestalt therapy offers a compassionate and grounded approach to life's complex moments. It helps you pause and reconnect with what you truly feel, think and need right here, right now. It's especially helpful for working with relationship difficulties and communication issues, low self-esteem and struggles with boundaries, codependency and addictive behaviours, stress and anxiety with a focus on body and emotions, existential concerns like purpose, freedom or loneliness. Gestalt therapy is not just talking, it's experiences. Together, we look at what is happening in the moment, using understanding, creativity, and environment. If you want to change your environment for yourself and others, I want to do it next for myself. My goal, as a Gestalt therapist, is to achieve your own understanding, which can lead to discovering the real you.
Gestalt therapy helps you reconnect with yourself in the present moment. It supports issues like relationships, low self-esteem, anxiety, addiction, and life purpose. Not just talk – but real experience, awareness, and change. Let’s explore the real you, together.
Videos
Introduction video
Video transcript
Hi, here is a short video about me and my approach. I was around 30 in the midst of a major life transition when I suddenly realized that I couldn't actually control everything in my life. The anxiety that surfaced unexpectedly first led me to meditation, And that really helped. Meditation has and had really much benefits in my path. But I later realized that I was using meditation as a way to escape from myself. Later I discovered Gestalt therapy, an approach that helped me to dare to move toward others and through that to find more about myself. It taught me to become aware, aware of myself, accepting what's inside in me. Instead of denying it. Piece by piece I got to know the parts of myself and at the same time I discovered new and more integrated aspects of myself. Later, through internal family systems, IFS and embodied work, my connection to myself has deepened. I have learned to recognize my at times strong protective walls that did arise and cut off contact to others. And why at some times I could dare to really show myself again. Later, through my experiences and insights, I want to support others in being seen and living more fully as they truly are. I look forward to seeing you.
Bio
My life had a sudden change when I was around 30, in the midst of a major life transition, when I suddenly realized that I couldn’t actually control everything in my life.
The anxiety that surfaced unexpectedly first led me to meditation. It had its benefits but, later I noticed that I was also using meditation as a way to escape from myself.
After years of searching, I discovered Gestalt therapy – an approach that helped me dare to move toward others and, through that, to find myself. It taught me to become aware of and accept what was truly happening inside me, instead of denying it. Piece by piece, I got to know the painful parts of myself and, at the same time, discovered new and more integrated aspects.
Later through Internal Family Systems Therapy, IFS and embodied work, my connection to myself has deepened. I have learned to recognize why at times strong protective walls did rise and cut off contact with others – and why, at other times, I could dare to show myself again.
Through my own experiences and trainings, I now want to help others become more visible and live more fully as who they truly are.
Experience
In Gestalt therapy one of the principles is the focus on here and now. The awareness of our immediate experience of present moment is the key to start learning about our experience and behaviour. When acknowledged and accepted the change can happen as it is the struggle that keeps us suffering. All our emotions, features and parts have the same mission: to keep us safe, although we don’t feel it that way. Gestalt is an integrative form of therapy and embodiment is one of the key aspects. How our body knows many times more than our mind.
This lead me to study TRE, Tension & Trauma Releasing Exercises, technique that perfectly supports Gestalt. For me the body is the way to more fulfilling living. I want to support you to get to know the real you, the authentic you living to the fullest.
I also apply Internal Systems Therapy, IFS, which is really transformational and beneficial model in helping people to get new insights.
Qualifications
Internal Family Systems Therapy Level 1 (IFS Institute) Gestalt therapist and -coach (Gestalt Institute of Scandinavia) Certified TRE provider (TRE Finland) Mindfulness studies Focusing I studies