Common factors between Gestalt and person-centered therapy:

1. Both are experiential and relationship-oriented
2. Both theories share respect for the client's subjective experience and trust in the client's capacity to make positive constructive choices
3. Both emphasize vocabulary of freedom, choices, values, personal responsibility, autonomy, purpose, and meaning

Differences between Gestalt and person-centered therapy:

1. Gestalt takes the position that humans are faced with the anxiety of choosing to create a never secure identity in a world that lacks intrinsic meaning while person-centered therapists believe in self actualization.