I am a couple hours late in this forgiveness stuff but I just wanted to add my two cents. I think t telling clients that they need to forgive is too much pressure. This is coming from my past where my parents were abusive and neglected us to an extent. I was also harmed beyond that by somebody else so my story may be different than LTs maybe a little more extreme but none the less my t has had always he said would never pressure anybody to forgive somebody who had harmed them in anyway. So, if LT doesn’t feel like forgiving is essential to her achieving her goals in therapy I don’t think the therapist should push her in that direction.