The Therapeutic Relationship
When you need advice, want to grow as a person, or desire the presence of someone to listen to you without judgment, and you want to maintain that privacy, where do you go? Do your parents and friends have your best interests in mind? Sure, maybe. But they are not able to encapsulate the person that I described, because they are not your therapist. They know you well, have opinions about what you should do, maybe even who you should marry. Should you trust, and actually follo

