Therapy is taking the opportunity to create a more meaningful approach to living. It is inviting another person (the therapist) into your confidence to share and grow together. It is not about getting advice so much as learning and understanding your own advice that is based on your goals and important values. It is about sharing important events, feelings, and thoughts. It is about building bridges in many different contexts. It is about sharpening the sense of what is important to you and to determine how you can make it happen. As your therapist I respect this time in sharing in your life, in your pain or despair, in your hope, and/or in your goals. I commend you and admire you for taking this step to make a better world for yourself and others. As your therapist I view my task as walking beside you, learning and understanding what it is like to be you, then becoming a coauthor with you in building that sense of who you are more precisely and purposefully.