ABSTRACT
There are a number of treatment stage sequences described within the TA literature (see Point 56). The therapist needs a conceptual framework for understanding the process of psychotherapy, to understand where they are right now with their client, and where the therapy might go. Although there has been much written in recent years regarding the relational approach to TA, little has been written on treatment sequence in relational therapy. In some respects this is congruent with a relational approach, which would generally avoid a prescriptive or linear approach to therapy, but nevertheless I think it is important for therapists (particularly trainees) who practise relationally to have a framework for thinking about the evolution of the therapy.
