Gifted Compassinate Therapy: Intentional Guided Evolution: A Primer

GCT is a ‘beyond ego’ guided approach to emotional problem solving in which the therapist adopts a direct teaching role, helping clients to activate their full navigational capabilities when dealing with life problems. GCT is integrative in that therapists encourage clients to use a variety of psychodynamic, cognitive-behavioral, humanistic, and transpersonal techniques to facilitate awareness. GCT therapists consider ego the culture’s ‘default’ compass and know when clients realize their complete and true guidance potential, life will improve. In this context, therapists routinely encourage clients to practice using these additional capabilities (i.e. soul, spirit, and heart) to guide the ego to consciousness. Understanding and applying the symbiotic relationship of these four functions is the key to emotional, psychological, and spiritual health.