These goals maybe from any component of life including, parenting skills, marital skills, ending substance-abuse, and most anything else. The therapist will focus on and examine the clients' lifestyle and the therapist will try to form a mutual respect and trust for each other. They will then mutually set goals and the therapist will provided encouragement to the client in reaching their goals. The therapist may also assign homework, setup contracts between them and the client, and make suggestions on how the client can reach their goals. Existential Therapy Focuses on freedom of choice in shaping one's own life.
Existential therapy focuses on the present and on the future.
The therapist try's to help the client see they are free and to see the possibilities for their future. This type of therapy is well suited in helping the client to make good choices or in dealing with life. Gestalt Therapy Gestalt therapy integrates the body and mind factors, by stressing awareness and integration. Integration of behaving, feelings, and thinking is the main goal in Gestalt therapy. Client's are viewed as having the ability to recognize how earlier life influences may have changed their life's.