Today I would like to dwell in a little more detail on one of the most important problems of modern psychotherapy. We will talk about the ecology of psychotherapy for mental trauma and the prevention of professional burnout of a psychotherapist. This topic seems all the more relevant to me in connection with the above-discussed idea of ​​psychotherapy as a process that supports experience. Questions naturally arise: “What happens during therapy with the experience of the therapist himself?”, “Does the therapist have the right to experience the events of his own life during therapy?” I am convinced that in this case we are talking not so much about rights as about necessity. In my opinion, the most important tool for a therapist’s professional work is his own process of experiencing. It is the freedom of the therapist in his experience of the current context of life that is the leading therapeutic factor that determines the success of therapy. First, the therapist's handling of his own self-phenomena is, in a sense, a model for the client. Secondly, only a therapist who is free in his experiences, through his creative dynamics and, consequently, high sensitivity to the current situation, can facilitate self-dynamics in contact. Thus, everything described above regarding the process of experiencing and self-dynamics is equally relevant to the therapist, including both the presence of mental trauma and the process of revitalization. So, the therapist is also at risk of mental trauma, moreover, as the experience of conducting professional training programs for Gestalt therapists shows, many of the most successful students have many of their own quite deep mental traumas. I think that interest in others and in oneself is largely motivated by therapists’ own traumas, and it is precisely this factor (curiosity in the life of another person and one’s own) that largely determines success in our profession. Of course, the therapist's therapeutic tool is not so much trauma as the psychic scars and scars left behind by them. So, what happens to the therapist's life during the therapy process? Being present in contact with a client is also an event in the therapist's life. Therefore it also needs to be experienced. At some point in time, the lives of two people become intertwined and shared. In the process of therapy, I experience the event of the meeting, and by supporting the process of experiencing the client, in a sense, we can say that I am also experiencing his life. Of course, in this case, there is a danger of focusing only on the client’s experience, ignoring oneself, turning, in the words of one of my long and successful colleagues, into “an apparatus for servicing other people’s lives.” The way out of this situation is, on the one hand, sensitivity to one’s life during therapy, which manifests itself as responses to contact with the client, and on the other, an ecological attitude towards one’s life outside of therapy. The latter involves maintaining the fullness of the experience of life events and, as a result, satisfaction with life. In both cases we are talking about the pregnant correlation of experiencing processes. The impasse in therapy and the burnout of the therapist are derived from the therapist ignoring his own process of experiencing. A dynamic field implies constant dynamics of figure and ground. Creative adaptation presupposes the potential for background phenomena to emerge as figures. In other words, to prevent burnout in the process of therapeutic work, the therapist should be attentive to his own process of experiencing, and for this sometimes he should place it in the figure, if not of the therapeutic process, then of his own awareness. On the other hand, “burying” experiences of events related to life outside of work in the background of one’s professional life deprives the therapist of the resources necessary, including for therapy. Moreover, ignoring the experience of one’s life binds.