Hi Angela and welcome

The answer to your question probably requires more a thesis lenght answer to do it justice yet in brief there is a lovely cross over between Motivatonal Interviewing and the work done in Drug and Alcohol on Stages of Change Model, and the way Gestalt therapists attend to the dialogue between them and the people they work with, and the use of Erv and Miriam Polsters process map, entitled the Contact Episode.

I think there was a bit of this written about in the archives here if you want to search and also go to the free ejournal at Gestalt Global listed here.

Brian