a mutual understanding relationship between therapist and clients.

It's taken me a long time but I do feel that I have a better relationship now with my T than how it was a year ago.

I feel like for therapy to work, it has to be collaborative not just coming from one side.

Just like between coaches and athletes. I spend five days a week, four hours a day training with my coach, and unless we understood each other and have a good working relationship, it is an awful lot of time we spend together and if we don't work well together, everything just falls apart. I feel like coaches can sometimes play a part of a therapist too dealing with an athletes psychological and physical health. I'm so glad I have a great coaching team now, my last coaching team was only toxic.

Agree. My therapy was really very much a dialogue and collaboration - same with my pdoc. I couldn't do therapy any other way.