ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on ways psychotherapists can help clients who struggle to begin to make use of their therapeutic relationship with psychotherapists. It explains several reasons why some clients may struggle in starting. The chapter considers be ready to avoid mistakes that a counselor might make that can inhibit a client’s beginning use of counseling. It implements counselor actions that can help clients struggling in starting. The chapter explains the roles of empathy and UPR in helping clients begin to fully utilize therapeutic relationships. It shows how and what types of questions or topic suggestions might help clients who are struggling and what types would not. Be ready to implement this understanding. The chapter differentiates the parts of psychotherapists clients’ struggles in starting that are within their influence, the parts that are not and how they may best respond to each.
