Therapeutic Framework

Collaboration and Working alliance

Therapy is a collaborative process, not advice-giving or directive instruction. The therapist does not tell clients how to live their lives; instead, they offer observations, reflections, and evidence-based psychotherapeutic tools within their training to support insight and wellbeing. Clients have the right to agree or disagree with the therapist’s observations, and if a particular approach does not feel helpful, they are encouraged to discuss this openly. Therapy is an information-based process: the therapist works with what the client chooses to share, trusting the client’s experience as their own frame of reference. The therapist has no obligation to make personal disclosures, and the client remains the primary focus of each session. Any therapist disclosure, if made, is always guided by the therapeutic movement of the session and the client’s needs; the therapist may also choose not to disclose anything, as there is no obligation to do so.