ABSTRACT
It is not uncommon for clients to enter therapy with a reservoir of defenses that they have used to protect themselves from being vulnerable to others. Many times, clients describe themselves as stuck behind a brick wall or having built a wall around themselves to keep intruders out. Therapists, too, often reframe their clients' behavior as an effort to protect themselves and hide behind a “wall.” Therefore, therapy may focus on how to come out from behind the brick wall in order to build more satisfying, two-way relationships. This intervention serves to help clients identify their defenses, their reasons for needing protection, and how to become more open in relationships. Clients symbolically construct and destruct their wall of defenses.
