How to Use Transformational Chairwork Therapy (Empty Chair Technique)
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- Опубліковано 5 лип 2024
- 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 Transformat...
☐ The Inner Critic Diagnostic interview: • Chairwork Inner Critic...
☐ Advanced Chairwork Methods: • Advanced Transformatio...
🔵 CHAIRWORK BOOK RECOMMENDATION
☐ Transformational Chairwork by Scott Kellogg. Please click on the link to buy from Amazon: amzn.to/3JrPTRV
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🔵 ABOUT TERESA LEWIS
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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🔵 CHAIRWORK VIDEOS TO WATCH NEXT
☐ How to use chairwork to resolve an inner conflict: ua-cam.com/video/8QM8nv8cVA4/v-deo.html
☐ The inner critic diagnostic interview: ua-cam.com/video/HQ7RiKmlbis/v-deo.html
☐ Advanced chairwork methods: ua-cam.com/video/R26lpEKOdMc/v-deo.html
This is ao far the best explanation of Gestalt Empty chair. I saw several videos and I had no clue what are they doing
Thank you so much Diana. You may be interested in my advanced chairwork video: ua-cam.com/video/R26lpEKOdMc/v-deo.html
Best wishes, Teresa.
I do this when I'm by myself in my home. Ppl think I'm nuts lol but it works to a degree. I've been doing this for decades actually. It releases stress towards an individual or individuals. It helps with past trauma/ victimizations. Bc sometimes the person or ppl aren't available and when they're not, this definitely helps. Ive been doing this exercise way before I even knew it was a common thing in therapy. I tried therapy a few times way back but it wasn't beneficial. I need someone who's been through what I have. Not someone who just sits there and pretends to get it or whatever. But yeah, this does work. It won't heal deeper wounds but it's definitely a help. Good vid lady. I appreciate it.
Thanks for sharing your insights Heidi. Best wishes, Teresa.
I love this how you elaborate the role play🥺🥺
Fantastic videos :) Thanks so much. Well explained !
Thank you for your kind feedback. Best wishes, Teresa.
This really worked for me and quietened my thoughts, I felt peaceful and it's been 16 years, I have not had the horrible thoughts.
That’s great to hear Sunil. Best wishes, Teresa.
Great video and very well explained.
Thank you ❤
Thanks for your support. Best wishes, Teresa.
This is an amazing resource Lewis, thank you so much!
Glad it was helpful! Best wishes, Teresa.
Great video. So helpfull. Thank you so much.
Thank you EMEK. Best wishes, Teresa.
Thank you for your clear explanation and easy to relate to examples.
Glad it was helpful! Best wishes, Teresa.
Thank you, this is great 👍.
Thanks for your support Andrea. Best wishes, Teresa.
Thank you - Great work
Glad you liked it! Best wishes, Teresa.
You're awesome ma'am. Your videos always give full cycle of experience. And i feel so light experiencing such psychological lessons. I've watched and liked all the chair work videos. They are short, perfect and mind blowing. One day I'll surely take a CBT session with you.
Thank you for your continued support Anurag, it really is greatly appreciated. I hope you are keeping well. Best wishes, Teresa.
I am studying executive coaching and trying to understand all the psychology theories is hard, your channel is amazing, all the videos are easy to understand and helping me a lot! Thanks a lot!
Thanks for your comment PJ. I'm pleased to hear my videos are helping. I wish you all the best with your training. Best wishes, Teresa.
Thank you very much for making this accessible for many of us who do have access to therapy. For my own healing journey, I really appreciate finding videos like these and picking up book recommendations while listening - I am slowly learning and will keep going.
Thank you for your lovely comment Ann. Wishing you well, Teresa.
Funny how I'm looking back at this video after watching one of your more recent ones concerning IFS and noticing how strikingly similar it is
Thanks for your comment Chris. IFS is actually influenced by Psychodrama and Gestalt psychotherapy. Chairwork comes from Psychodrama and was further developed by Gestalt psychotherapy. There are certainly a lot of similarities. Best wishes, Teresa.
This was great, thank you. Would you consider doing one on internal family systems?
Thanks for your support Russell. I am planning to do a series of Chairwork videos hence the new playlist. I’ll add Chairwork and internal family systems to my list of future videos. Best wishes, Teresa.
Thanks, this sounds like it could be very helpful. It also strikes me as a great technique to use with inner conflict in a novel.
I’m pleased to hear this could be helpful to you. Yes, it can certainly be used to address an inner conflict. Best wishes, Teresa.
this was really insightful! do you mind posting the audio version of these videos on audea? I'd like to listen more than watch and that's where I get most of my audio content..
Thanks for your comment. I'm pleased to hear you enjoyed the video. Sorry, I've never heard of audea. Best wishes, Teresa.
Hi, can you do a video using the empty chairs for the 3 ego states? (parent, adult, child). I thought this video would illustrate it
Hi Rya Rya, Yes, you can place your ego states in the empty chair which can help with decontamination. This video illustrates how to use the empty chair technique. My next chairwork video will demonstrate exactly how to use chairwork to work with parts of the self. I aim to produce a several chairwork videos going forward. Best wishes, Teresa.
@@LewisPsychology great! Can't wait
Hello Dr. Lewis, can I please include a QR code in the workbook I'm writing about inner child work?
Thank you for your comment. Can you please send me an email about this. My email is in the description. Thank you. Best wishes, Teresa.
I've been following your TA clips (great serie, thank you so much), but this is the first one I'm not sure how to feel about. Aren't you basically creating a dellusion by doing this, especially if its with people you may still randomly encounter at some point? At the end of the day, you are talking to a chair, and I'm not sure, but I doubt the conversation would have the same dialogue lines had the person imagined been there in first place. Personally at least, I would rather develop some skills to be able to say these kinda of things directly instead of some momentarily cope/relief, or maybe dig to the root of the problem to identify why I was feeling like that in the first place 😅
But that aside, thank you for a great serie!
I’ve been using chairwork for 30 years and it’s the most dynamic and powerful therapy. You are externalising a conversation that was internalised and it helps mobilise energy so we can become unstuck. It’s not about the other person, it’s about your internal process. Have a look at my other chairwork videos as I think it will help. Best wishes, Teresa.
@@LewisPsychology I take back my previous comment. I had a session this week where my therapist luckily made me use this technique and it was way more eye opening than I could have expected. As it turned out I have some repressed issues that make me more or less freeze when it comes to talks, and just becoming aware of this fact made it so much more easy to lay out my thoughts, increasing also the level of clarity and removing most of the stumbling in my speech.
Once again, thank you so much for all your work :)
Thank you for sharing your insights. I’m so pleased chairwork has been so helpful. Best wishes, Teresa.
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What do you do if the opposite happens and they flood with love for the past relationship instead of saying goodbye?
That would be totally fine, it would just take a different direction. You work with whatever the client presents and don't try to dictate a specific outcome. My other chairwork videos may be of interest.
☐ How to use chairwork to resolve an inner conflict: ua-cam.com/video/8QM8nv8cVA4/v-deo.html
☐ The inner critic diagnostic interview: ua-cam.com/video/HQ7RiKmlbis/v-deo.html
☐ Advanced chairwork methods: ua-cam.com/video/R26lpEKOdMc/v-deo.html
Best wishes, Teresa.
Interestingly she does not mention Gestalt Therapy, the main popularizer of empty chair work.
It’s often assumed chairwork originates from Gestalt psychotherapy but it actually comes from the work of Moreno and Psychodrama. Perls was very influenced by Moreno. This is mentioned at the beginning of the video. Best wishes, Teresa.