Shortly after the counseling sessions were filmed, Gloria Szymanski was asked by the film's producer which therapist she could benefit from the most, and she responded that Fritz Perls "could be the most valuable to me." This seemed ironic, because Perls' questioning of Gloria was very confrontational, and easily could be seen as demeaning.
The client in this film was Gloria Szymanski. She was 31 years old when the sessions were filmed; she had been through a divorce six years earlier, and her daughter, Pammy, was in the fourth grade at the time Gloria married again in 1968, and divorced ten years later. She died of leukemia at the age of 46. Gloria's daughter, Pamela Burry, later published a book entitled, Living with the Gloria Films, A daughter's memory.