Therapeutic Relationship Essay
4. Development of the therapeutic relationship
Show how you worked with aspects of the CBT relationship for the benefit of the client.
Client Y and I had originally built up our therapeutic relationship using the core conditions and although this client has always been reluctant to talk she will and does work very hard answering open questioning. She knows she needs encouraging out of her shell and I feel she is grateful that I keep plugging away doggedly each week during our sessions, always gently encouraging her to come out of her shell and enlighten me to her world. My clients patterns of behaviour are introversion, extreme shyness, fear of other people and being near …show more content…
This client had big trust issues but had been assessed by a psychiatrist who’d suggested talking therapy would help. She was re-assured by this professional opinion. This client exhibits no feelings of friendship or fondness towards me as she has the greatest of difficulties showing these to all but her late Father’s sisters. She has been an unusual client because of this barrier. I categorically know that she trusts me and values the work that we do, I completely understand how hard each week is for her and am very proud of the way she trusts me enough to tell me deeply hurtful experiences each session. She has only welled up about 5 times and has never cried. I congratulate her often hoping to build her low self-esteem. She glows and smiles so beautifully when I do this. An example of how my understanding of her childhood enabled me to use a simile recently of how I saw her as a baby deer, who’d be suckling for milk and then for no reason her mother would bite her and hurt her teaching her to expect unexpected and un-predictable nurture. As I teach her to be her own therapist through the CBT model I am also encouraging her to reach out verbally and emotionally to her younger brother and to open up a slither of a pathway between them – to
Show how you worked with aspects of the CBT relationship for the benefit of the client.
Client Y and I had originally built up our therapeutic relationship using the core conditions and although this client has always been reluctant to talk she will and does work very hard answering open questioning. She knows she needs encouraging out of her shell and I feel she is grateful that I keep plugging away doggedly each week during our sessions, always gently encouraging her to come out of her shell and enlighten me to her world. My clients patterns of behaviour are introversion, extreme shyness, fear of other people and being near …show more content…
This client had big trust issues but had been assessed by a psychiatrist who’d suggested talking therapy would help. She was re-assured by this professional opinion. This client exhibits no feelings of friendship or fondness towards me as she has the greatest of difficulties showing these to all but her late Father’s sisters. She has been an unusual client because of this barrier. I categorically know that she trusts me and values the work that we do, I completely understand how hard each week is for her and am very proud of the way she trusts me enough to tell me deeply hurtful experiences each session. She has only welled up about 5 times and has never cried. I congratulate her often hoping to build her low self-esteem. She glows and smiles so beautifully when I do this. An example of how my understanding of her childhood enabled me to use a simile recently of how I saw her as a baby deer, who’d be suckling for milk and then for no reason her mother would bite her and hurt her teaching her to expect unexpected and un-predictable nurture. As I teach her to be her own therapist through the CBT model I am also encouraging her to reach out verbally and emotionally to her younger brother and to open up a slither of a pathway between them – to