The Therapeutic Process

1. Submitted to:
Prof. Agnes Montalbo
Rizal Technological University
Submitted by:
Asuncion, Arvin V.

2. Therapeutic Goals
 Helping Clients face anxiety and
engage in action with a purpose of
creating a worthy existence.
 Assist Clients in moving toward
authenticity and learning to recognize
when they are deceiving themselves.

3. Therapeutic Goals
To teach clients to listen to what they
already know about themselves, even
though they may not be attending to
what they know.

4. Bugental’s
Three Main Task Of Therapy.
To help clients redefine
themselves and their
world in ways that foster
greater genuineness of
contact with life.

5. Bugental’s
Three Main Task Of Therapy.
To support Client in
confronting anxieties
that they so long
sought to avoid.

6. Bugental’s
Three Main Task Of Therapy.
To assist clients in recognizing that they are not fully
present in the therapy process itself and in seeing
how this pattern may limit them outside of therapy.

7. Successful therapy!
When Clients come to realize that they are able to
make changes In their way of being in the world.

8. Therapist’s Function and
Role
 To deal with clients who have a limited
awareness of themselves also known as
Restricted Existence.

9. Therapist’s Function and
Role
 To help clients to gain new
understandings and options from their
subjective world.
 To invite clients to accept personal
responsibilities.

10. Therapist’s Function and
Role
Once a client is aware
of factors in their past
and stifling modes of
their present
existence, they can
begin to accept
responsibility for
changing their future.

11. Reminder for the
Existential Therapist
There is no one right way to do therapy,
and certainly no rigid doctrine for
existentially rooted techniques.
What is crucial is that you create your own
authentic way of being attuned to your
clients.
– Russell (2007)

12. Client’s Experience In Therapy
Merely deciding to
enter psycho
therapy is itself a
frightening prospect
to most people.

13. Client’s Experience In Therapy
Clients are challenged to take responsibility
for how they Now choose to be in their world.
But
Effective therapy does not stop with
awareness itself !

14. Client’s Experience In Therapy
Clients receives encouragements from
the therapist to take action on the basis of
the insights they developed through the
therapeutic process.

15. Client’s Experience In Therapy
Being a Client in Existential therapy is
Confronting ultimate concerns rather
than coping with immediate problems

16. The therapeutic alliance is
a powerful joining of
forces which energizes
and supports the long,
difficult and frequently
painful work of life
changing psychotherapy.

17. Therapy is a journey taken by therapist
and client that delves deeply into the world
as perceived and experienced by the
client.
This type of quest demands that the
therapist should also be in contact with
their own phenomenological world.

18. The Core of the therapeutic relationship is
RESPECT
It implies faith in the client's potential to
cope authentically with their problems and
in their ability to discover alternative ways
of being.

19. If the therapist keep themselves hidden
during the sessions, clients will also
remain guarded and persistent in their
inauthentic ways.

20. Reminder
Do not be so concerned with the content of
what you say but be aware of the distance
between you and your client.

22. Thank You !
For Listening 