Table 2.

Interview protocol.

1. How much does the person sitting on the empty chair feel like your actual childhood self?

2. What was your experience meeting your childhood self in the virtual environment? How did you feel when encountering and speaking to your childhood self?

3. What factors hindered you from meeting and interacting with your childhood self in the virtual

4. Environment?

5. What changes or improvements do you think could make the experience better?

6. The traditional empty chair technique is conducted using imagery (imagination) techniques. Compared to the VR-based approach, which method do you think is better for immersion?

7. How do you think it would feel if the traditional approach had been used instead?

8. If you were to receive counseling using the empty-chair technique, which method would you prefer: the traditional approach or VR-based approach? Why?