The Empty Chair

Using the empty chair technique for many short-term counseling sessions. This technique is used to resolve a conflict between people or with a person. The child sits in one chair playing his own part, and then the child is instructed to speak to another chair, as if the person they are mad at is sitting in it. The counselor asks the child to express her feelings and then the counselor asks for her to express how the other person might feel or what he might say to her. This allows for the child to learn about herself and then discover how the other person may feel and how she can change her thoughts and realize what is really going on and how she really feels.