ABSTRACT
If you are one of the elders of the counseling or other helping professions, you may have some foggy recollections of a bygone era. During this strange, past age, practitioners held the therapeutic relationship in the highest regard and cared little about specific techniques. The “inner subjective experiences” (Hansen, 2005, p. 406) of clients were considered the most important element of the helping encounter. Odder still, counselors did not give their clients direct guidance or tell them how to live their lives. Clearly, we are now in a different age.
