Piotr Mierkowski

I am a Gestalt Psychotherapist (MA, UKCP Reg.) with over 30 years' experience, now in private practice in Bedford and online.

I work with adults and couples from diverse cultures, race and sexualities. Areas of my clinical expertise include relationships, life transitions, creativity, sexuality, love and loss. I work primarily in English but sessions can also be held in Polish.

I offer brief therapy when appropriate but I tend to work longer term to facilitate deep and lasting change. Clients can choose to see me for psychotherapy and counselling on the open-ended basis or book a set number of sessions. I have particularly extensive experience of working therapeutically with clients facing existential concerns and searching for meaning in their lives, exploring their place in society and their identity, seeking to increase their self-understanding and understanding of the world around them. I work regularly with gender and sexual minority clients, and those who are also part of another minority because of their skin colour, ethnicity, religion, language, and all those who transgress any category. I offer regular appointments online.

I also offer clinical supervision, facilitate groups and training to therapists and allied professions in the UK and abroad.

I offer an initial consultation to all prospective clients. It is an opportunity to meet in person without obligation to commit to regular sessions. The fee for the initial consultation is same as for any other session.

I see the first meeting to be a form of mutual assessment - clients can find out more about the process of therapy and how I work, and, equally, it enables me as a therapist to learn about their issues and needs, and what they are looking for in the therapist.

If you wish to book an initial appointment or inquire about my availability and fees contact me on my phone 07779 506 412, leaving a brief message, and I will call you back. You can also contact me by email at gestaltpsychotherapy@gmail.com.

All messages, phone calls and correspondence is treated in the strictest confidence.

I am a BACP accredited and UKCP registered psychotherapist, supervisor and international trainer with thirty years of clinical experience in the NHS, voluntary sector and private practice. My background is in psychology and neuroscience. I have considerable training in body therapy, couples therapy and many years’ experience of working with gender, sexuality and relationship diverse clients. As a graduate of the Gestalt Centre London and its former board member, I have worked in the supervisory capacity for over 15 years. I am also a Gestalt Centre visiting tutor delivering amongst others the advanced clinical seminars for students of the Practitioner Programme. In addition to my private practice in Bedford and online, I have been actively involved in the work of many different Gestalt organisations and training institutes in the UK and Poland. As a clinician working mostly in the second language, I am interested in the reverberations of cultural and linguistic cross-cultural phenomena and how they impact the therapeutic process. Amongst others I have translated the seminal text of Gestalt therapy into Polish.