ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to describe exactly what The Method of Levels (MOL) therapist is required to do when delivering therapy and how MOL might be implemented in everyday clinical practice. In MOL, emphasis is placed on identifying and targeting patients' underlying distress rather than their symptoms. MOL does this through increasing patients' awareness of their preferred states and facilitating them in reaching these. In MOL there is recognition that distress can only be understood from the perspective of the patient, who has the capacity to generate their own solution. In MOL, therapists do as much as they can to facilitate the patient being in control so it is important that the patient generates the focus of the session. An MOL therapist aims to avoid making assumptions about what the patient is saying and does not offer reflections or interpretations. Therefore, the therapist also refrains from making comments that might traditionally be regarded as 'empathic'.
