This chapter discusses the importance of addressing how the avoidance mechanisms occur within the interaction between clinician and child. Throughout the work with the child in Regulation-Focused Psychotherapy for Children (RFP-C), by focusing on what actually occurs between clinician and patient, and how the patient is protecting himself from the awareness of unpleasant emotions, the clinician engages in a respectful experience-near technique. A major tool utilized in the therapeutic situation, with children, adolescents, and with adults, is trying to understand and address the meaning of the patient's transference relationship to the clinician. Children with Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and disruptive mood dysregulation disorder (DMDD) often evoke common countertransference issues. The treatment of these difficult children would be enormously helped for clinicians to be aware of their inevitable countertransference responses. When the relationship between the child and clinician intensifies, the conflictual issues between the child and their family can become fully displaced onto the figure of the clinician.