ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the change process in therapy from the perspective of the way the author work, it is useful to have recourse to a model of this change. The author’s stage-based model of the therapy process consists of six stages: engagement, exploration, cognitive-experiential understanding, change based on cognitive-experiential understanding, working through, and ending. The author acknowledges that when a client makes progress in therapy, they may experience lapses in their progress. One of the author’s final tasks during the working-through process involves helping clients to become their own therapists. When there is an obstacle to change in therapy, one factor the author checks is whether the client continues to hold such doubts, reservations and objections concerning these attitudes or about any aspect of the therapeutic process. The client will need to be honest with themselves and with the author as therapist for the purpose of their alliance together to deal effectively with obstacles to change.
