Phases of therapy
The sequence the process usually follows: establishing safety, working through, integrating and ending.
How it goes
The first phase is for the relationship and for stability. The second is the most demanding, because what brought you here opens up. The third connects insights to daily life; the fourth brings things to a close.
Why it helps to know
Because in the second phase many people think therapy isn’t working — they feel worse. That is expected and, as a rule, temporary.
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See also
Spirituality in therapy
Room for questions of meaning, faith and the transcendent — when they matter to a person.
Pattern
A sequence that repeats: cue, response, outcome — and then from the beginning again.
Silence in therapy
A silence that isn't awkwardness but a space in which what fast conversation covers over can appear.
