The past is yesterday and the future is tomorrow. So the reality of life is we only have today. The better a person can be present in the here & now, the more fully he is able to live. This means that real change and growth can only happen in the ‘here & now’. Fritz Perls (Gestalt Therapy) spoke about past trauma as “unfinished business”. He notes that we don’t have to ‘dig into the person’s past’ to find unresolved issues. Whatever trauma is unfinished, it is present in this moment of now. So it stands to reason that for the therapist to be to most effective, he himself should be grounded in the here & now. The live video demonstrates an example of joining and being present with an OCD client and thereby working in the here & now.
