1. Mary Rose S. Leynes II-21 BSE STA
COUNSELING TECHNIQUES
Technique Proponent/s Description Goals
Existential Therapy Rollo May
James Bugental
Irving Yalom
Victor Frankl
Emphasizes a keen respect
of the person.
Invitation to the clients to
recognize the ways in
which they are not living
full, authentic lives.
To enable an
individual to accept
the freedom and
responsibility that
goes along with
action.
Person-centered
Therapy
Carl Rogers Focuses on the client’s
responsibility and capacity
to discover ways to more
fully encounter reality.
It aims toward a
greater degree of
independence and
integration of the
individual
Rational Emotive
Behavior Therapy
Albert Ellis Based on the assumption
that people have the
capacity to act in either
rational or irrational
manner.
To reduce or
eliminate irrational
behavior.
Behavior Therapy Arnold Lazarus Based on the principles of
the scientific method.
Clients are expected to be
active by engaging in
specific actions to deal with
their problems.
To create new
conditions for learning
on the assumption
that learning can
ameliorate problem
behaviors.
Gestalt Counseling Frederic Perls To assist the client toward
self integration and toward
learning to utilize his
energy in appropriate ways
to grow, develop and
actualize.
Client must learn to
take responsibility for
themselves.
To change the outlook
in life , self
expression, and
assimilation and the
ability to extend
awareness to the
verbal level.
Psychoanalytic
Therapy
Sigmund Freud According to
psychoanalytic view, the
personality is consists of
three systems: id, ego and
super ego
To treat the emotional
illness in the way one
thinks.
Reality Therapy William Glasser Is a problem-solving
method that works well with
people who are
experiencing problems they
want help solving, as well
as those who are having
problems and appear to not
It provides an
excellent model for
helping individuals
solve their own
problems objectively
and serve as the ideal
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Feminist Therapy Jean Baker
Miller
Carolyn Zerbe
Enns
Oliva M. Espin
Laura S. Brown
Gender free, flexible,
interactionist and life span
oriented.
A transformation for
both the individual
client and society as a
whole.
Aims to replace the
current patriarchy.
Family Systems
Therapy
Murray Boner Based in the assumption
that client cannot be
completely understand
apart from his family.
To improve family
functioning.