ABSTRACT
While preparing for the face-to-face meeting, therefore, it is useful for the therapist to invite the client to let the therapist know how best the person thinks the therapist can be helpful to them and what the therapist should avoid doing in the session. This chapter outlines a form that the client can be asked to complete before the session that will provide the therapist with such information. The author's view is that as Single-Session Therapy (SST) is a fusion between what the client brings and what the therapist brings, it would be a mistake for the therapist not to discover this information, but that the therapist should not feel obligated to go along with the client if to do so may lead to possible future problems for the client. Elsewhere, the SST therapist should be transparent and, in this respect, share their concern about the client's preferred ways of being helped.
