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The study aimed at recognizing thinking styles in relation to decision making obstacles among psychological counseling students at al Aqsa University, identifying the most styles favored by them, and exploring the differences in thinking styles and decision making obstacles attributed to gender. The study sample consisted of 210 psychological counseling students at al Aqsa University. Results showed that the most used thinking styles were the legislative, executive, hierarchic, progressive, external, judicial, anarchic, monarchic, internal, oligarchic, global, local, and the conservative. In addition, the study concluded that the decision making obstacles among the participants were 63.5%, and there was a statistically significant negative relationship between the legislative, judicial, hierarchic, and the global and decision-making obstacles whereas there was a positive relationship between the monarchic, oligarchic, and the conservative and decision-making obstacles. Furthermore, it was shown that there were no statistically significant differences in the legislative, hierarchic, progressive, and the external attributed to sex, and there were statistically significant differences in the executive, judicial, monarchic, oligarchic, oligarchic, global, local, conservative, and the internal attributed to sex in favor of males. Results also showed that there were no statistically significant differences in decision making obstacles attributed to gender. (Published Abstract)