I think this is a very important point. In my experience, my therapists weren't pretending to help me though. What they did very overtly was to let me know what they were about was helping me find and use my own ability to care for myself that I thought I had lost (or perhaps I thought I never had). They kept telling me they knew the answers for my life were within myself; all they were doing was helping me find a way to access what was already there. They never claimed to have the answers; they claimed I could find the answers and just helped me reach that place for myself.