It is important for us as therapists to “tune in” to our patients on a level that results in a rapport in which the patient feels deeply and powerfully understood.
Don Jackson, one of the founding fathers of family therapy wrote, ” Perhaps our therapy should be called homeopathic family therapy since we proceed on the notion that the particular communication devices the family uses can in turn be used with them for therapeutic purposes, as in the homeopathic idea that “like cures like.” D. Jackson, 1958
I’m not convinced that homeopathic medicine works on the body so well, but I do agree that our patients cannot achieve anything in psychotherapy without first feeling connected to us.