Gestalt Therapy

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Gestalt Therapy
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Key Concept

• Unfinished situations
• (Split-off parts)
• move to foreground to make wholes
• Gestalts

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Goal of Counseling

• Awareness, becoming Centered
• Re-own disowned parts
• Finish unfinished business
• Integrate polarities
• Acceptance of pain
• Contact Issues
• Boundary issues
• Giving up trying to control others
• Responsibility Response Able
• Rather than reactive

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Counseling Techniques

• Focus on the Here and Now
• Phenomenological, Experiential
• Frustrate Client
• Empty Chair top dog, bottom dog
• Discussion between parts of self
• Dreams Everything is a part of the dreamer
• I language
• No Shoulds
• I ---Thou