Sarah Hartung, MA Clinical Psychology

I feel that the therapeutic relationship is the core of each therapy. Here issues that the client struggles with are likely to play out, giving the therapist the opportunity to provide feedback or interventions that may assist the patient in understanding his pattern of relating to others. A client may have failed to solve a problem in the past as heshe is trying solutions that are ultimately "more of the same". In therapy, the client may learn to find all together different approaches to his problems and thus might solve it as he leaves his previous framework to problem solution.

As unpleasant and unwanted problems usually are, they often serve an important purpose in peoples' lives. Focusing on the meaning of a problem and the role it plays in a person's life might be helpful in finding solutions to dseal with it.