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In Coactive Counseling, the participants are both facilitators and recipients of the counseling process. Built on equality and mutual support, Coactive Counseling empowers participants to become more active and conscious in their personal growth and emotional healing.
Coactive Counseling is founded on two basic principles. The first is best represented by the proverb: Give a person a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a person to fish and she will eat for a lifetime. The second principle is the healing power of people helping each other.
Coactive Counseling is grounded in Gestalt Therapy, a holistic approach that emphasizes the following:
- Trusting and nurturing each person’s inherent process of healing and growth
- Working with the whole person – mental, physical and emotional
- Heightening awareness and experience of one’s strengths and unused potential
- Identifying and working through self-defeating ways of thinking, feeling, acting and interacting with others.
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