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The article will be useful for people who are ending a therapeutic relationship with a psychologist, or have experienced intense emotional experiences in their lives. Beginning specialists who have difficulty completing therapy with their clients. So, in the Gestalt approach there is the concept of the “Cycle of Experience”. These are stages that help us realize that we have gained some kind of experience (valuable, useless, painful, etc.). Using the example of hunger, it works as follows: 1. Your body gives you various body signals through your growling tummy. You feel tired and irritable.2. You interpret these signals as a feeling of hunger, since previous experience tells you that when your stomach growls and you become “Unfriendly” with others, it is usually about hunger.3. Need identified. You proceed to search for an object in the field. Open the refrigerator. Choose between an apple and a chop. Check the degree of rumbling and your irritability.4. You make a choice and begin to interact with the object. Bite, chew, gnaw, digest.5. Once the object has become part of you, and you have become part of the object, the moment of completion comes. You tell yourself “I’m full” or “I’m hungry.” In the first case, the cycle ends, in the second you start it again. We are interested in the fifth point, since at the fifth stage the experience gained is appropriated. This happens through a comparison of body sensations, actions performed and the formulation of the experience gained at the level of thoughts. “The lunch turned out great, I feel a surge of energy, a pleasant warmth in my stomach. I think I’ll have chops for lunch on Thursdays.” The needs of the psychological spectrum are satisfied in a similar way. First we learn to interpret the signals of our body, connect feelings with the inner and outer world, say with our mouth what we want from another or from the environment and organize it for ourselves. Sometimes psychological work is difficult to tangible, or rather it is not so easy to measure. Below are the questions that I use in final meetings with my clients. They will also be useful for use in everyday life.1. What are your most significant changes during your work?2. How do you evaluate your progress in solving the problems you encountered at the beginning of therapy?3. What skills have you learned on the job that you find most useful in your daily life?4. What changes have you noticed in your relationships since therapy?5. What were the most difficult moments in the process and how did you deal with them?6. What did you learn from this experience and how do you plan to use the knowledge and skills gained in the future? This helps to identify subjective changes and evaluate the experience of psychotherapy, that is, to complete the cycle. It is important to remember that any experience is an experience. Disappointment from working with a psychologist is also an experience, and how it happened is important to analyze and learn from it. And if you have the courage to discuss this with your therapist, then this is another facet to the integrity of your existence. Sometimes it happens, so talk about the disappointment of psychotherapy in a session. Strength appears. talk about disappointment in personal relationships. What does a crisis entail, which can bring freshness or allow the old to fade away?.