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Oliver Baiocco

Gestalt and Body Therapist · Counselor & Coach · Training Therapist · Supervisor in Training

Oliver Baiocco

Master of Arts in Social Sciences (Dipl.-Sozialwiss.)

Gestalt psychotherapist, coach and body therapist

With 30 years of professional experience in the social sector, he has worked in a wide range of roles, including senior leadership positions within social organizations.

He currently works as an EAP Counselor at one of Germany’s

longest-established EAP institutes.

In parallel, he maintains a private practice in Germany and Estonia.


Face-to-face sessions in Cologne and Tallinn (Estonia),

with online sessions also available.

Sessions are offered in English and German.

Professional Affiliations:

Co-founder of the EGTC

Member of the DVG

Member of the EAGT and the NOGT Chamber

Gestalt Therapy, Counselling & Coaching

for individuals, couples and groups

The demands of everyday life and the professional world have steadily increased in recent years. This raises important questions: How can we respond to these demands and changes? What do we need in order to navigate them? And where are our limits?

  • What is changing in my life?
  • What demands does this place on me?
  • What are my wishes and aspirations?
  • What is my vision for the future?
  • What obstacles may be standing in my way?
  • What resources and strengths do I have available to me?

I am happy to support you in the following areas, among others:

  • My career – exploring my current situation, future prospects and possible next steps
  • Where are my limits, and what is my potential? – understanding my boundaries and discovering new possibilities
  • Finding greater satisfaction and self-acceptance in everyday life – Not always, but more often.”
  • Clarity about my own needs and the first steps towards meeting them –“I want to…”
  • “I’ve had enough.” – recognising my limits and learning to express them in a healthy and appropriate way
  • “What I’ve always wanted to do.” – exploring inner obstacles, fears and those “tired animals” that sometimes hold us back
  • “What do I do now?” – navigating doubts, difficult decisions and what comes next when things become serious
  • “A closed book?” – couples counselling around friendship, relationships, intimacy and love

The humanistic approach is recognised as a relevant factor in effectiveness:

"Mindfulness exercises and a focus on the here and now require the involvement and experience of the body. Focusing on emotions and emotion regulation lead to the perception of autonomous physical processes and non-verbal behaviour. Overall, cognitive behavioural therapy is currently becoming increasingly ‘humanistic’ and emphasising aspects of immediate experience. Experience and being in the world imply that one is aware of the body with and through which one ‘experiences’."

Tschacher, W; Storch, M.: Embodiment and Body Psychotherapy. In: Künzler, A. et al. (Eds.): Concentrated Psychotherapy in Dialogue. 2009 (p. 162)

About me

My path to Gestalt therapy and psychosocial counselling was a long one. After training as a machinist and then working in a steel mill, I decided to change things in my life and, at the age of 24, I obtained my high school certificate. I then studied political science, economics and Italian in Duisburg and Bologna, graduating with a degree in social sciences.

In my professional activities as a project manager and in various management positions, I have been continuously involved in counselling and learning since 1992, working as a consultant and speaker. I am continuously expanding my qualifications in this field through ongoing training and furthereducation.

My consultation work is deeply influenced by the Gestalt approach, an educational and therapeutic method for personality development devised

by German psychoanalysts Fritz and Lore Perls and American intellectual Paul

Goodmann, which is a central branch of the humanistic school of psychotherapy.

Education/further training

  • Social sciences at the University of Duisburg and the University of Bologna (Italy)

  • Gestalt Therapy Training for Supervisors 2025-2027 (Prague/Milan) - G. Francesetti, M. Gecele, S. Dudova & J. Roubal

  • Multiphase dialogical-humanistic trauma therapy - Munich Institute for Trauma Therapy (MIT), Prof. Dr. Willi Butollo & team (2024)

  • Phenomenology in therapeutic, educational and counselling practice
  1. Fundamental concepts of embodiment and intersubjectivity (2023);
  2. Phenomenological psychopathology (2024). - Prof. Dr. Dr. Thomas Fuchs (Heidelberg). Seminar for Gestalt Therapy, Gestalt Counselling and Gestalt Phenomenology KIG (Switzerland)

  • Partner school as couples therapy in integrative practice - (R. Sanders & R. Lissy-Honegger) (2021-2022). In cooperation with the EAG (European Academy for Biopsychosocial Health, Nature Therapies and Creativity Promotion, Hückeswagen)


  • Postgraduate International Training – A Gestalt Therapy Field Approach to Development and Psychopathology. International Advanced Training Programme 2019-2023, Istituto di Gestalt HCC Italy srl, Italy. (M. Spagnuolo-Lobb, J. Kepper, B. Müller, C.V. Bandìn, M. Taylor, J. Roubal, A. Narzisi & L. Jacobs)

  • Integrative Body Therapy - One-year continuing education programme at FPI-EAG, Hückeswagen (H. Petzold, I. Orth & M. Rosenkranz)

  • Gestalt therapy - Five-year advanced training course at the Kontakte Institute, Herzogenrath (A. Vollmer, I. Rawe, F. Schierenberg & L. Firneburg)

  •       Coaching in organisations - One-year further training at the Remscheid Academy (K. Richter)

  • Profile coaching and Gestalt coaching - One-year advanced training course at the Kontakte Institute, Herzogenrath

  • Mediation - Further training at Forum Demokratie, Düsseldorf

  • Psychosocial counselling - Two-year further training course at the FernUniversität Hagen and DGVT

  • Role-play pedagogy and scenic group procedures - Two-year further training course at the German Society for Role-Playing Pedagogy and Scenic Group Methods (DGRS)
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