A good therapist will gently tease out the tangled psychological truth without hurting or annihilating the client in the process.  It’s not what you lied about, it’s why you lied about it.

I came across this article and as a therapist, was interested in what it had to say. It takes great strength to walk into a therapist office and I let every client know that they are showing great passion to change their life to what they dream it to be. Yet during the process, the client becomes comfortable with the therapist and starts interacting with them as they do every on in their life. Seeking approval, wanting to show only the good and hiding those things that we are afraid we will get disapproval for. Then the therapeutic process begins to slow, issues are harder to resolve…. I speak of this not only from my 20+ years of clinical work but also from a very personal lever. I have done the same thing in my personal therapy and know the hard work we ask our clients to do. So I ask the clinical people who read this to remember what it was like and the clients to see that it just might be work the risk to have the life they dream of.