Importance Of Therapeutic Alliance

The therapeutic alliance is the relationship between a therapist and their client. It is evident that a solid therapeutic alliance can assist in a better outcome of therapy. Once the client feels at ease, shares a sense of common goals with the therapist, and feels safe as well as trust the therapist the therapeutic alliance has been created. Every therapists as well as client are unique in their own little way, and just like any other relationship people encounter in their life this relationship takes hard work and dedication. People tend to be rigid and caught up in their own beliefs of what is wrong or right, but the therapist can never lose sight of humanity. Being a human comes before being right or wrong and the client will only be able to see and understand that through therapeutic alliance.

Relationships have a significant part in everyday life. People might define a relationship with someone in a lot of diverse ways because it depends on whom the relationship is with. It is safe to say that our relationship with peers, colleagues or loved ones are all unique in their own way yet they are still a relationship. With that being said is it probable to have a relationship with somebody who we do not really know, like a therapist? It is possible yet it needs to be understood that this type of relationship is not like other relationships we have with other people. In other word the therapeutic alliance is a different type of alliance and is very unique in its own way.
The therapeutic relationship or therapeutic alliance is the relationship between a clinician and a client. It is the means by which the therapist engages with, and influence transformation in a client. Many studies have shown that this type of relatio...

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...l. However the client may be reluctant to change clinicians because according to data this therapist was a good match and the client would never get the help they needed.
After all counseling is something very personal and the reason the therapist chooses this type of work is not only because they want to help but also have the direct client contact. A relationship cannot be established based on data; it takes much more than that. Just like I mentioned before the concept does sound good, and it could be helpful in the sense that it could eliminate time finding the right therapist. Yet not finding the right therapist at first could also be helpful for the client to really know what they are looking for in therapy. Personally I don’t think the “treatment matching” is the way to go. Granted it may be innovative but sometimes the old way still remains the better way.