Distress and Guilt in Workplace Contexts

An experience of work consultancy based on Existential Analysis (EA) is presented, which shows the effectiveness of the approach and its methods in developing group coaching. The experience of two participants is described in detail. In their work environment, they had difficulties in defining their tasks and in gaining self-confidence, respectively. Thus, feelings of guilt and abuse in the face of the workload were frequent in one of them, and paralysing anguish in the face of operational contingencies in the other. The EC approach describes the personal capacities of self-distancing, self-transcendence, self-acceptance and how both participants were able to use them, thus achieving an adequate delimitation of their responsibilities in one case and the reconfiguration of a reliable work space in the other, all this in a total of ten sessions.