Transformation and change through the humanist existential therapeutic process in vituality, during the COVID 19 pandemic.

Abstract

A qualitative research is presented using the phenomenological method, in order to analyze and understand the subjective experience of people who have gone through a virtual therapeutic process as a result of the pandemic contingency and the role played by the three basic attitudes of the approach rogerian of humanistic psychology. A questionnaire was applied virtually to nine people who attended therapy in virtual mode, asking relevant aspects during the process, such as the motivation that led them to attend therapy, the problems with which they arrived at the process, as well as the processes of transformation and change experienced during said therapeutic event. The perception they had about the therapist's attitudes was also explored and they were asked if this was for them a determining element for change. Important concordances are found between the literature and the facts in psychotherapy, particularly regarding the issues of motivation due to lack or deficit, the promotion of attitudes of appreciation, empathy and congruence on the part of the therapist, as well as the confluence between the experience, the ideal self and the real self, among others. It is concluded that one of the key points for success in therapy is the co-responsibility of both actors (the person who consults and the therapist who accompanies) in the process.