This is the story of Richard Price—a co-founder of Esalen and an early student of Fritz Perls—who took Gestalt therapy beyond the therapy room and into everyday life. After surviving a breakdown and the violence of forced psychiatric treatment, Price turned toward a different kind of healing. One rooted in awareness. In choice. In the body. In now.
The practice he developed—Gestalt Awareness Practice—isn’t about fixing or analysing. It’s about sensing what’s here, and meeting it with curiosity. It’s slow, relational, and non-pathologising. Especially resonant if you’ve ever felt over-processed, misdiagnosed, or boxed in. “No analysis. No cohesion. No fixing. No second guessing. Just awareness.”
