ABSTRACT
One of the ways to bring Single-Session Therapy (SST) alive for a client and to increase the likelihood that the person can integrate intellectual and emotional learning from the process is for the therapist to suggest chairwork to the client. S. H. Kellogg says that chairwork is a psychotherapeutic technique that typically involves the use of two chairs that face one another. The patient sits in one chair and has a dialogue with an imagined family member or other person sitting in the opposite chair; alternatively, the patient moves back and forth between the two chairs and speaks from different aspects of him- or herself. When the SST therapist suggests the use of internal dialogue chairwork, it is to address the client's problem which is characterised by a conflict within the person. Another way in which chairwork can be used in SST is in skills development with the client learning to assert themself in a role-play situation.
