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Originally Posted by Partless
It's not okay to go for therapy if there is no defined goal. It's harmful for client and a waste of money, and also unethical for therapist.
Edit: just to be clear, by goal I mean something as simple as finding a solution to handle anxiety better or to come to terms with death of someone or to start dating again. To reach those specific goals, there are many smaller goals that will need to be achieved. But this is a professional relationship and a paid service and needs to have goals and structure of some kind. It's not like dropping by a friend's home for a cup of coffee cause she's on the way to your gym. If you go for therapy, figure out why, make sure you and your therapist are on the same page, and make sure you know when the goal is achieved, and check your progress with therapist on some sort of regular basis. Otherwise you spend 50,000 dollars and see a therapist over several years and the only goal achieved is the therapist getting rich off you!
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It seems that you are claiming that this is generally true for all therapy. If that's in fact what you are saying, I would like to respectfully disagree, because it certainly does not apply to me, nor does it apply to some other people who have weighed in on this thread, and thus it is not a general truth.
If I interpret you correctly, you need goals, you want to make sure that you know why you go to therapy, and you would not like it if you weren't reasonably certain that you and your therapist are in agreement about your goals. None of which is strange - but none of it is a requirement for therapy to be successful for other people, who may have different needs and wishes.