I am grateful to be comfortable with silence as I have seen how powerful it can be, even with the most resistant clients. Silence allows the clients to think, to sit with their thoughts and build confidence and courage to share. That period of silence may be the time that the client is taking to practice in their mind how to reveal something hurtful, something traumatic or maybe something that they have never told anyone before. It might be the time that they are preparing for their breakthrough. As the therapist, we don’t need to ruin that moment with a constant need to ask questions.