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but it’s also a chance to begin building the client-therapist relationship. Building a rapport with the client is one of the more important techniques a therapist can accomplish. With this rapport

the client feels a stronger comfort level and is therefore able to open up to the therapist without feeling judged. Other techniques that are important for the client-therapist relationship and for communication to prosper is the ability for proper language use and sentence/question formation and keeping cultural differences and similarities in mind. Pauses and moments of silence are to allow the client to think

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p. 5). This is a newer development with the realization that not one single approach may benefit the client. The therapist will learn the client’s personality and characteristics and then determine which combination of approaches would most benefit the client to reach his or her full potential and goal(s). Not only is it about the client though

some have shown promise and stability while others haven’t been so successful. Depending on the success rate of these techniques determines if they become more universally accepted or if they get rejected through trial and error. Hackney and Cormier (2013) included a list of theory/therapy types and the proportion of counselors that prefer to practice them as cited by Prochaska and Norcross (2010)

“eclectic approach (37%)