Gestalt Therapy

People can develop a response-ability by maintaining a

productive contact with others while maintaining their
own identity
Reported By: Kathleen Joyce Chua
Christian Joshua Parel
Andrea Mariel S. Anastacio
Angeline B. Naron
NATURE OF HUMAN BEING:
Consisting of many varied parts which make
a unique individual
Sum of the parts is not equal to the whole.
SOURCES OF DIFFICULTY:
Vague, disintegrated, disturbed boundary between self and
others because of:
o Introjection

o Projection

o Retroflection

o Deflection

o Confluence
SOURCES OF DIFFICULTY:
Preoccupation with the future and the catastrophic
expectations of the bad things that will happen or the
wonderful things that will not.

Unfinished Business which generally involves

unexpressed feelings of the resentment, anger, hatred,
pain, anxiety, grief, guilt, abandonment.
 GOALS:
Attainment of awareness necessary to face and accept denied parts of
thinking and to get in touch with subjective experiences with reality.

Movement from the environmental to self-support through discovering

that he/she can do much more than he/she.

Enhanced capacity for responsibility.

Whole, integrated being.

MAJOR FOCUS:
Here-and-now feeling
Body symptoms and
movement messages.
Blocks to awareness
ROLE OF THE COUNSELOR/
THERAPIST
 ROLE OF THE COUNSELOR/THERAPIST:
Implement creative techniques that lead to discovering the conflict
issues.
Point out how the client escapes from the now into the past or the
future.
Encourage direct here-and-now experiencing of the struggles with
unfinished business form the past to discover conflicts and gradually
expand limits of awareness.
Help client make own interpretations, create own direct statements
and find own meaning.
Point out patterns, discover the messages behind them.
Break the impasses and move on.
Help client make the transition from external to internal support.
COUNSELOR/THERAPIST
CHARACTERISTICS
& COMPETIENCIES
COUNSELOR/THERAPIST CHARACTERISTICS
& COMPETIENCIES

Emphatic Understanding
Genuine warmth
Alertness to what is going on within himself/herself
Keen observation of changes in color, movement,
language and time usage of client.
Confidence to confront, declare observations and give
feedback.
Persuasive skills to urge client to take action.
LEADS AND RESPONSES:

Acceptance
Clarification
Restatement
Paraphrasing
Reflection of Feelings
Confrontation
Summarization
What and how questions
TECHNIQUES:
(Perls, 1969; 1973)
Techniques:
1. Top Dog/Underdog

2. Staying with the feeling

3. Dream work

4. I take responsibility for

5. Making the rounds

6. I have a secret
Techniques:
7. Playing the projection

8. Reversal Technique

9. Rehearsal game

10. Exaggeration Game

11. Here-and-now experiencing

12. Directives
Techniques:
13. Language changes

14. Empty Chair

15. Talking to the parts of oneself

Phases of the Experiencing
Cycle:
 STEPS OF FIVE PHASES OF THE EXPERIENCING
CYCLE:

1. Establishment of warm and self relationship.

2. Sensation awareness
3. Mobilizations
4. Contact
5. Resolution/Closure
6. Withdrawal
 HISTORY TAKING:
Not congruent with here-and-now focus.
Focus on the past only when client brings it up and discussed in the
present tense.

PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSESSMENT:
Considered material
Non-psychometric assessment ongoing through the session
THANK YOU!!!!
Be who you are and say what you feel because
those who mind dont matter and those who
matter dont mind.
Dr. Seuss