Gestalt Therapy & Counselling in Central London

I am Piotr Mierkowski - Gestalt Psychotherapist and Counsellor. I have worked with individuals and couples in Central London since 1994. I trained at the Gestalt Centre and hold MA in Gestalt Psychotherapy from London Metropolitan University. I am acredited by BACP and registered with UKCP (UK Council for Psychotherapy).

After many years of working for the NHS, I now offer counselling and psychotherapy that is tailored to the needs of the individual in my private practice at the Gestalt Centre (EC2) in Central London, walking distance from Old Street and Liverpool Street stations.

Additionally, I offer couples therapy together with a female co-therapist in Camden Town (NW1).

My approach is Gestalt Therapy – a creative attitude towards life and personal growth with the emphasis on present experience, contact and awareness that addresses the whole person: mind/body/emotion/spirit.

I have vast experience in working with people from diverse cultures, race, social backgrounds and sexualities. Acceptance of each person in their unique reality is inherent in my practice.

As Gestalt psychotherapist, I see my task as being to facilitate personal development and improve relating. I work in collaboration with my clients to increase awareness of their strengths as well as identifying blocks to change, growth and fulfilling relationships. I offer short term counselling when appropriate but I tend to work longer term to facilitate deep and lasting change.

My clients include individuals who are seeking safe and confidential space to clarify and explore more specific issues and distress, like: relationship difficulties, depression, anger, bereavement and loss, anxiety and panic attacks, sexual concerns and compulsive behaviour.

I have considerable experience in providing counselling and psychotherapy to individuals with enduring mental health difficulties and those seeking help on the advice of their GP or psychiatrist for debilitating complaints, including anxiety states, depressive illness, psychosomatic and stress related symptoms.

I work regularly with artists, counselling and psychotherapy trainees, as well as individuals who want to define their identity, find more satisfying and creative ways of expression, and those who are searching for meaning in their lives.

I am dedicated to a dialogical approach that in my view best addresses human nature – "in its ground of connectedness and its figure of separateness". My interest lies in the exploration of the person's relationship with self and other, and in enhancing their relational ability.

I work primarily in English but sessions can also be held in Polish. For information in Polish, please click here.