Clinical reflection

What do you assume about suffering, change, and the therapeutic relationship?

Explore ten prompts and choose the statements you want to think through. Your selections form a record you can revisit, discuss, and revise.

The options are editorial starting points that simplify different clinical perspectives. They do not establish a clinical identity or assess professional ability.

This exercise does not submit or save your selections.

You can answer as many or as few prompts as you like.

01 When someone is suffering, what feels most true to you?

Choose a statement to reflect on. You can change it later.

02 What do you think produces lasting change?

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03 When a client avoids something painful, your first instinct is to…

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04 The therapeutic relationship is primarily…

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05 What matters most about a therapy's evidence?

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06 A client says: 'I just feel empty.' You think…

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07 The self is best understood as…

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08 When you imagine your ideal clinical practice, you picture…

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09 What is the deepest source of human suffering?

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10 A new client arrives feeling lost and purposeless. Your orientation is to…

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Your selected statements stay marked in the prompts above. Open any prompt to review or change them.

Keep the questions open

Which statement was hardest to choose? What did the available options leave out? How might a different client or setting change your response?

Continue with the foundational questions, or compare two approaches and examine their assumptions.