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Even though I stated that CBT was my favorite therapy, I feel as a therapist I would be much more suited for Gestalt Therapy. I think when you choose what type of therapy you want to practice you have to consider which one fits your personality and how you interact with other people. The essential idea in gestalt therapy is to have an individual be “whole”; to experience his/her life fully. I would pick this type of therapy because I like that it acknowledges that the past can influence how a person may react presently toward a situation. For example, if a partner cheated on you in the past, in future relationships you may be much less trusting and cause rifts in those relationships. Gestalt therapy seeks to help you not only become honest with those feelings, but deal with them in the present. It doesn’t seek to try and time warp to the past and deal with these issues, but bring them to forefront along with how you’re currently feeling. The maya is the illusionary version of us. It’s the thoughts, behaviors, and self-concepts that we use to portray ourselves to others, even though it’s not our real selves. I agree with that idea just from being around others. You can always hear someone state that someone is being “phony” or “two-faced”. But gestalt therapy helps give a basis behind that. I think as a therapist, it’s good to take an active approach to your clients. I like that in the gestalt approach you can frustrate the patient by confronting what they are trying to avoid. I think that some of the other therapies such as person-centered, want you to be too indulgent to the client. By that I mean they want you to be supportive to the point where getting to all the problems a client may be experiencing become the ultimate ch... ... middle of paper ... ...At first I honestly thought psychologist and psychiatrists just talked to patients or just let they ramble on. Then taking other courses I thought psychologist just did a lot of experiments to explain about the brain and why people did things. Then taking this course helped me realize that psychologists have methods and different concepts to how to approach a patient. This course influenced how I’m probably going to interact with my patients when I’m a recreational therapist. This course honestly helps you think about the reasoning people think and do things in different situations. While I will not be trained per say to help an individual overcome these symptoms, if I can better understand the reasoning behind them I can provide a better service to the individual. After all, the client is the most important thing in treatment. Without the client we have nothing.

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