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The Therapist's Client getting started Workbook
Structured Self-Guided Work for the Work Between Sessions
The hour with your therapist is the practice. This is how you arrive ready for it.
For the person beginning or restarting therapy who wants to arrive at the first session with clarity about what they are working on, what they already know about themselves, and what they want from the work.
The Name It First Experience
The most productive therapy does not start in the room. It starts with what you examine before the room. Your Therapy Getting Started Agreement gives you the framework to arrive prepared: knowing what you are working on, what you have observed about yourself, and what you want from the work. One document. Both you and your therapist benefit from it.
You can opt into 30-, 60-, and 90-day check-ins from your account. We recommend you do — the point is to see what changed.
Sample questions
- What brought you here — and what do you most hope to get from this work?
- What would a meaningful change in your life feel like — something specific you want to name?
- What would feel like progress to you in the next few months?
- What have you tried before — and what helped, and what didn't?
Research basis
Lambert's outcome research on client factors as the largest predictor of therapy outcomes / Miller and Duncan on client-directed outcome-informed therapy / Wampold's common factors model on therapeutic alliance as strongest outcome predictor / Beck's CBT framework on between-session structured work / Miller and Rollnick on Motivational Interviewing and change readiness / Prochaska and DiClemente's Stages of Change model
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Every format asks the same questions and produces the same document.
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A real book and a pen. Write in the margins. The most permanent version of you on a page.
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The full guide on any screen, with a companion journal to write your answers by hand.
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Audiobook
We read every question and every scenario aloud. For the commute, the walk, the dishes.
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The keepsake edition — sewn, ribboned, made to sit on a shelf and be returned to.
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Digital Fill + membership+membership
Answer on screen. Your responses save as you go and assemble into your finished document.
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Hands-Free Interactive + membership+membership
Listen to each question and speak your answer. We capture it. You never touch a keyboard.
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The Essential path takes you to your finished document by the questions that matter most. The Full-depth path walks every question, every scenario, every angle. Both produce the same signed document — one just goes deeper on the way there.
Essential path
Shorter sessions. The questions that go directly to the document.
Full depth
Every question. Every scenario, every angle.
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