By Carolyn Bartlett

Nine: The Mediator

Attention: Avoiding conflict, finding peace and comfort

Presentation of personality in therapy:

• Easygoing, pleasant, passive, agreeable

• Diffuse energy

• May demonstrate awareness of therapist’s needs

• May respond slowly

• May “saga,” inessential side tracking, sometimes entertaining and funny

• If relationship issues have prompted the desire for therapy, the client may appear distant, removed, and passive

• Significant ot...

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