There is an important lesson that we do not learn in graduate school; rather, it is something
we figure out as we gain experience: Doing therapy can be therapeutic for therapists! As Aponte
and Winter (1987) noted, “Engaging in therapeutic work with clients is a social context which,
for a therapist, jostles his [sic] own personal issues in ways that few other encounters do. The
continuous reflection on people’s personal struggles . . . moves a therapist to seek to resolve his
own life issues . . . .” (p. 94).