Although the impact that clients can have on therapists is well-known, most work on the subject consists of dire warnings: mental health professionals are taught early on to be on their guard for burnout, compassion fatigue, and
countertransference. However, while these professional hazards are very real, the scholarly focus on the negative potential of the client-counselor relationship often implies that no good can come of allowing oneself to get too close to a client's issues. This sentiment obscures
what every therapist knows to be true: that the client-counselor relationship can also effect powerful positive transformations in a therapist's own life. How Clients Transform Their…
The fourth book in Kottler and Carlson's you-can't-just-read-one-of-the-stories series, this book shows how the therapeutic process (when done right) inspires change in the client and therapist alike.
