Gestalt therapy, as its founding father Fritz Perls said, “is too good to be resorted to only in case of illness or abnormalities,” he also called it “therapy for healthy people.” The modern Gestalt approach is used in working with families and couples, in individual therapy and counseling, in group therapy, and in working with organizations. It is available to all people. The very name “gestalt” is translated from German as “image”, “integrity”. Gestalt therapists consider human behavior in the context of a person’s life, in the context of his environment (the body and the environment that nourishes it). Gestalt therapy helps a person restore contact with the environment. In other words, the focus is on understanding needs and ways to satisfy them. In a person’s life, it happens that not all needs can be satisfied, for example, people are afraid to show their anger, fantasizing that it will destroy the relationship; someone swallows resentment, not daring to fight back; someone is sure that it is necessary to always be in tension, because in childhood he was shamed for not being collected, etc. Sometimes a person forgets about them, but unmanifested feelings and emotions, unfinished situations continue to live in a person and can arise in the most unexpected situations. For example: a client in elementary school was shamed by the teacher in front of the whole class because she (the client) was glad that a classmate gave her a gift. The client then experienced intense shame. In adult life, the client does not accept gifts from men because she is afraid to experience intense shame again. The task of the Gestalt therapist is not to solve the client’s problems, to move him somewhere where he is not, but rather to help the person understand HOW he is satisfied the world in which he lives, become interested in the fact of the creation of this world and try to understand what is happening to him at this moment in his life, what is his attitude towards it. This does not mean that the therapist knows more than the client; rather, on the contrary, it is the world that the client builds, which means he is more competent in it. And the Gestalt therapist should rather help the client discover himself in his life. J. Zinker highlighted the following statements about the usefulness of Gestalt therapy: Gestalt therapy teaches one to be aware of one’s needs and develops ways to satisfy them on one’s own, without infringing on the rights of others; With the help of Gestalt therapy, a person moves towards more complete contact with one’s feelings; learns to see, hear, smell, taste, touch, i.e. enjoy all aspects of his being; A person learns to accept responsibility for his actions and their consequences; Feels comfortable in the awareness of his fantasies and their expression; Gestalt therapy is often called action therapy; in it, it is not so much the analysis of actions and the dialogue between the therapist and the client that is important, but rather the feeling here and now, the living of experience in the current time. Gestalt therapists often suggest replaying a situation from the past, realizing it now and seeing what is not possible to see when you tell it. It’s the same as when I talk about beautiful nature in colors, I can remember how good it was for me there, rejoice at my experience, but it’s a completely different thing when I’m in it, see it, smell it, hear birds singing, experience the range various feelings and emotions. I would like to complete my article with a modern version of the famous Gestalt prayer, which was given to us by F. Perls and later revised by H. Bukay: “...It is I who am responsible for moving away from what hurts me. I am responsible for protecting myself from those who harm me. I am responsible for paying attention to what happens to me and assessing my part in what is happening. I must recognize the resonance that my action has. what happened to me happened, I have to do what I do. I'm not saying that I can control everything that happens to me - no, but I am responsible for everything that happens to me.."