Lifeworks · Est. 1987 · Dr Steve Vinay Gunther
Live more
authentically.
Four decades of Gestalt therapy, coaching, and training — a quiet, relational practice for people, couples, and practitioners who want their inner life and outer work to belong to each other.
- Languages
- 20
- Case studies
- 200+
- Years
- 40
Ways to work together
Five doorways.
One conversation
at a time.
Choose the door that fits where you are. Each opens into the same relational ground — awareness, dialogue, the body, the field you live in.
- 01
Personal therapy
One-to-one Gestalt work — for the patterns that no longer fit, and the life that wants in.
- 02
Career coaching
Career Decision Coaching™ — clarity for the work that is actually yours to do.
- 03
Couples & supervision
Relational work with couples, and supervision for practitioners building their craft.
- 04
Workshops
Themed groups: The Unvirtues, Constellations, Power, Spirituality & Psychotherapy.
- 05
Professional training
Short courses through four-year certificate programs in contemporary relational Gestalt.
The orientation
Relational, contemporary,
in the here and now.
Awareness, with kindness
We begin with what is — and meet it with curiosity rather than correction. Support and challenge in balance.
Dialogue, not technique
The conversation is the work. The facilitator is an active participant, not a neutral mirror.
A systemic eye
Patterns belong to fields, not only to people. Family, culture, body, history — all of it counts.
Body & experiment
Change happens through new experience. We make space to try, sense, and discover something different.
In practice
Demonstration sessions.
Recorded therapy sessions — an honest look at what relational Gestalt actually does in the room.
A natural empath — vibrating with joy
A 40-minute demonstration session.
I and Thou — touching pain and anger
40 minutes on contact, presence, and grief.
Case-study blogs
Fifteen years of
written practice,
in twenty languages.
A long-running archive of Gestalt case studies — translated and maintained as a resource for practitioners, students, and curious readers around the world. These blogs predate this site and continue under their original addresses.
From the writing desk
The Woman in your life.
A man’s guide to happy relationship.
An honest, generous book for men who want to love well — drawn from four decades of sitting with couples, families, and the long, ordinary work of becoming a partner worth being.
Not a list of techniques. A way of paying attention.
Read more about the bookVoices from the work
From clients, students, and colleagues — across years and continents.
“Four years of training with Steve was life-changing. I learnt so much about myself — how I am in the world, how I am with clients, and how to be present with anyone, in any situation.”
“I have known Steve for eighteen years, as Gestalt teacher and therapist. A person of great integrity, wisdom, sincerity and care.”
“Contactful, empathic, intuitive — fully tuned in to whatever I brought. I recommend his work without hesitation.”
“Steve 的教导平实而透露出很高的修为与爱的分享。工作坊中结合的个案处理，让我对格式塔的核心理论与处理技术有了清晰系统的认识。”
Begin a conversation.
For therapy, coaching, supervision, training, or simply to ask a question — write a few lines about where you are and what you are looking for. Every enquiry receives a personal reply.