ABSTRACT
It is the case that a major goal of REBT is to encourage clients to make profound philosophical changes so that they can be as psychologically healthy as possible. However, only a very small minority of your clients will stay in therapy to achieve that level of psychological maturity. Even if all your clients did stay long enough probably most of them could not achieve such profound change even if they wanted to. This is due to the fact that such high level of psychological functioning is probably only attainable by those who don’t have strong tendencies to self-disturbance. Most of your clients will be satisfied with more limited, and some would say more realistic, therapeutic objectives. If you are extremely ambitious for your clients in terms of what you think they can achieve, this may be at variance with what they actually seek from therapy.
