How to Use Transformational Chairwork Therapy (Empty Chair Technique)

In this video I explain how move on from someone in your past using transformational chairwork, also known as the empty chair technique. Chairwork is a powerful psychological method from psychodrama and made famous via the Gestalt school of psychotherapy. Chairwork therapy has been adopted by a wide range of psychological models including schema therapy and cognitive behavioural therapy, also known as CBT. The psychologist Scott Kellogg is making a lot of advancements in this area.

Chairwork enables you to engage with people in your past, present and future. You can can speak to a deceased parent, a childhood friend an even an unborn child. You can also talks to parts of yourself, so if you have OCD they can imagine your OCD in the empty chair and talk it. If you have depression they can put the depression in the empty chair and talk to it. By giving a voice to the other person or part of the self you can develop a deeper and more empathic understanding of yourself and the issue thats holding you back. This leads to a greater integration of feelings and healing at a much deeper level.

In this video I provide a demonstration of how to use Transformational Chairwork to help someone move on from a past relationship. I demonstrate the empty chair technique in action and also provide examples of deepening techniques.

🔵 CHAPTERS

0:00 What is Chairwork Therapy?
0:52 How to use Chairwork (part 1)
2:52 Deepening techniques (repetition)
3:17 How to use Chairwork (part 2)
3:57 Deepening techniques (volumne)
4:16 How to use Chairwork (part 3)
4:34 Deepening techniques (language)
4:45 Other benefits of Chairwork Therapy

🔵 CHAIRWORK VIDEOS TO WATCH NEXT

☐ How to use chairwork to resolve an inner conflict:    • How To Use Transformational Chairwork...  
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☐ Advanced Chairwork Methods:    • Advanced Transformational Chairwork M...  

🔵 CHAIRWORK BOOK RECOMMENDATION

☐ Transformational Chairwork by Scott Kellogg. Please click on the link to buy from Amazon: https://amzn.to/3JrPTRV

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Teresa Lewis is the founder and Director of Lewis Psychology and a Senior Accredited psychotherapist with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (MBACP Snr. Accred). Qualified in 1995, Teresa has been providing counselling and psychotherapy treatment for nearly 30 years. Teresa holds a masters degree in counselling and psychotherapy and is a qualified EMDR Practitioner having completed training accredited with EMDR Europe. Teresa is also a qualified adult educator and an accredited Mindfulness teacher As a recognised expert in her field Teresa is frequently asked to conduct editorial reviews and endorse counselling and psychotherapy books for international publishing houses.

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