The Importance of Developing a Therapeutic Alliance

Dr. Phillips: When I started out as a clinician, it was really important to show my patients that I was competent. And so effort was put in initially to demonstrating that evidence of being competent and that they've made a correct choice in seeing me. But over time and losing many, many patients while trying to show them how amazing I was as a clinicians, I discovered that the goal of my role is not to demonstrate my confidence but to do nothing more than to discover what's going on in their world. So long winded answer but to a very valuable lesson that I learned for myself.