GOALS OF THE THERAPY

The Satir Transformational Systemic Therapy has four main goals: helping those in
therapy raise their self-esteem; become decision-makers; become responsible,
especially for internal experiences; and become congruent—say what they mean
and do what they say they will do.
FOUR UNIVERSAL META-GOALS

2. BECOMING A CHOICE-
1.RAISING SELF-ESTEEM
MAKER
FOUR UNIVERSAL META-GOALS

3. BECOMING 4. BECOMING
RESPONSIBLE CONGRUENT
FIVE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS ELEMENTS
To create, transformational
change
Five therapeutic elements are
necessarily present throughout the
entire therapy session from the initial
contact and rapport building, through
assessment and exploration, goal
setting, the transformational change
process, anchoring the changes,
reviewing the session and assigning
therapeutic homework for practicing
and integrating the changes.
FIVE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS ELEMENTS
EXPERIENTIAL
The client is experiencing impact
of a past event in the present.
SYSTEMIC
Therapy must work within the
intrapsychic and interactive
systems in which the client
experiences his/her life.
FIVE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS ELEMENTS

POSITIVELY DIRECTIONAL CHANGE FOCUSED

The therapist actively engages with The process questions asked

the client to help reframe throughout the entire therapy
perceptions, generate possibilities, session are change related.
hear the positive message of Questions such as “What
would have to change for you
universal yearnings, and connect
to forgive yourself?”
the client to his/her positive Life
Energy.
FIVE THERAPEUTIC PROCESS ELEMENTS

SELF OF THE THERAPIST

The congruence of the therapist

is essential for clients to access
their own spiritual Life Energy.
When therapists are congruent,
clients experience them as
caring, accepting, hopeful,
interested, genuine, authentic
and actively engaged.
TECHNIQUES

Satir used the concept of

process as the major avenue for
change. This concept indicates
that the flow of a person’s
energy is transformed from a
dysfunctional pattern or dynamic
to a more open, free, healthy
pattern.
Satir discouraged people from
focusing on the story about a
problem. Instead, she focused on
helping their internal process
which allowed them to tap their
yearnings and to change.
THREE AREAS OF THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION
INTRAPSYCHIC SYSTEM
The intrapsychic focus has been
identified in terms of an Iceberg
Metaphor. It is a way of
conceptualizing human experience
and recognizing that most human
experience is actually internal.
INTERACTIVE SYSTEM
The Satir model looks at people’s
relationships in terms of sameness
and differences. Satir used to say
that sameness attracts and
differences help us grow.
There are five ways that people
might use to handle differences:
Conflict as a solution, Denial as a
solution, Compromise as a solution,
Resolution as an answer, Growth as
an outcome
THREE AREAS OF THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTION

FAMILY ORIGIN SYSTEM

The family map (genogram) is used as a

way of connecting with one’s parents as
adult peers to resolving the negative
impact of one’s internal experience in the
family-of-origin and reclaiming the
resources one has received from one’s
family-of-origin. Family map includes two
major time frames: the factual present
and the perceptual past.
References:

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2. Satir, V., Banmen, J., Gerber, J., & Gomori, M. (1991). The Satir model: Family therapy and

beyond. Palo Alto: Science & Behavior Books.

3. Grant, K. (2020, April 02). An Overview of Satir's Transformational Systemic Therapy (STST).

https://www.kevinwgrant.com/blog/item/an-overview-of-satir-s-transformational-systemic-

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