Gestalt Institute (Instituto de Gestalt)
Advanced Certificate - GESTAL WORK WITH CHILDREN AND ADOLESCENTS
Mexico City, Mexico
Advanced Certificate
DURATION
LANGUAGES
Spanish
PACE
APPLICATION DEADLINE
EARLIEST START DATE
Jul 2027
STUDY FORMAT
Key Summary
About: The Advanced Certificate in Gestalt Work with Children and Adolescents offered by The Gestalt Institute focuses on Humanistic Psychology and Gestalt Psychotherapy. It trains practitioners to support personal growth, integrate difficult experiences, and improve self-understanding, self-esteem, and emotional health in children and adolescents. The programme emphasizes experiential methods, developmental awareness, and therapeutic relationship skills for work with families, schools, and community settings.
Career Outcomes: Graduates can pursue roles in clinical practice, school-based support, counselling, and community mental health. Typical pathways include child and adolescent therapist, school counsellor, family therapist, mental health clinician, and developmental support worker, or private practice.
The process of personal growth or psychotherapy has been extended to children and adolescents for its wide benefits. Being able to integrate the difficult experiences that the person lives in these stages allows the individual to grow with a better understanding of himself, the world in which he lives, a better self-esteem and emotional health. Gestalt Psychotherapy has proven to be an extraordinarily beneficial and natural approach for working with both children and adolescents.
