About us
KAIRE TALVISTE-BAIOCCO
Gestalt Psychotherapist
KAIRE TALVISTE-BAIOCCO | Gestalt Psychotherapist Founder, leader and trainer of the EGTC |
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Education | Social Science (MA) |
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Advancedtraining |
(2019 – 2023; HCC Italy)
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Fields of works |
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What is your personal stance/
attitude in work? | Curiosity. To understand what is hidden in the first, but needs to be seen, touched, recognized, and released. |
What is the most important aspect
in Gestalt for you? | The most amazing aspect for me is the potential of Gestalt therapy. It guides people to connect with oneself to become whole again. Existentially this is the most valuable gift we can make for ourselves and what we own to ourselves to live up to our full potential. “A truly whole person has to have good guidance and also the ability to act.”
-Fritz Perls- |
Membership | EAGT, EAP, EGPÜ, EPTA |
Task at EGTC | Lecturing, Therapist, Management |
OLIVER BAIOCCO
Gestalt Therapist
OLIVER BAIOCCO | Gestalt Therapist
Founder, leader and trainer of the EGTC |
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Education | Social Science (MSc) |
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Advancedtraining |
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What is your personal stance/
attitude in work? | “Every person’s life is worth a novel” (Erving Polster). In practice, a new world emerges with each client – and I have the honour of witnessing the clients’ stories and struggles to survive and live well. In all these stories I see suffering as an attempt to achieve peace and liberation. I do not judge or give good advice, but try to fully accept how and what the client shows in his/her individuality. His/her pain and suffering, his/her “strangeness” is his/her individual way of dealing with life, a result of myriads of attempts of actions, thoughts and feelings in a wide network of relating to the world. Therefore, my work does not only focus on the individual, but at the same time includes the environment, the being-in-life. My work is strongly relational: I am connected to the client, to our biography, to our socio-cultural base – therapy is relational co-creation in a shared field. |
What is the most important aspect
in Gestalt for you? | I have recently been newly influenced by the phenomenological and field-based approach of Gestalt therapy, which has been further developed in recent years. This includes the question of who exactly I am in the practice space and what my role is. As a trained social scientist, I am quite good at analysing and rationalising. But my clients have taught me that while my mind can be very useful, it is not sufficient for the world I am in with my client. My client and I create a new space where we co-create a world, questions, understanding, perceptions and feelings. We are also together in pain, suffering, hope and despair. Without losing myself, I try to immerse myself in this new world and together with the client understand the meaning of subjective suffering and develop perspectives. |
Membership | DVG, EAGT (Member of the General Board) |
Task at EGTC | Lecturing, Therapist, Management |
KAIRE TALVISTE-BAIOCCO & OLIVER BAIOCCO
The founders of Estonian Gestalt & Training Center
We met few years ago in Milan, Italy, during an advanced international training on “Gestalt Therapy Field Approach to Development and Psychopathology”. We share the stance that as a therapist, counsellor or coach you are never finished with learning. It’s an ongoing lifelong process containing theoretical knowledge, practical skills but most importantly it’s a very personal path of reflection and self-development.
It has been an amazing experience to meet and collaborate with well-known gestalt therapists around the world.
We both come from different professional fields of work and gestalt therapy is our common ground. In that way we can build our work on a wide range of working experiences in various domains and in different positions as Gestalt theory is not only applied in psychotherapy.
“Gestalt is not an easy technique,” as Fritz Perls, the founder, said. “Gestalt is an art.” It is a way of perceiving and understanding the world, a way of living. Existential and humanistic Gestalt is deeply interested in supporting people holistically in their personal growth, being as you are, not as you should be. Only by accepting what is, we can realize how we want to be.
It sounds easy, but realizing it needs courage, commitment, and power of endurance. Based on our experience and deep commitment by supporting people, we established the first centre for gestalt education in Estonia as a meaningful next step.
We realize our common dream and vision: to create a space, a space for development, understanding, creativity, community and support.
Together with our colleagues from Estonia and abroad, we offer the opportunity to make your life richer and more intense. Living more worth it.