Show your clients that your job is to help them to find their own solutions to their problems not prevent them from doing so

Some clients, particularly those who have been in less directive therapies, are concerned that REBT’s active-directive stance means that they will be prevented from finding their own solutions to their problems. Having heard you outline REBT’s active-directive stance they ask such questions as: ‘From what you have been saying, it seems to me that REBT therapists prevent clients from finding their own solutions to their problems. Am I right about this?’