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Therapy developed by Harlene Anderson

Collaborative therapy is a therapy developed by Harlene Anderson,^[1] along with Harold A. Goolishian (1924–1991),^[2] in the US. It is intended for clients who are well educated in any field, or for those that have distrust of psychotherapists due to past negative experiences with one or more.^[3]

Overview

Collaborative therapy gives the client the option to have a "non-authoritarian" counsellor, for clients who are not heteronormative, who have gender dysphoria or are transgender, or who choose to live an alternative lifestyle. Anderson used collaborative therapy in family therapy and marriage therapy with success, and believed it could help families and partners to understand the client better, should the client find that they cannot adhere to social norms any more, such as coming out as transgender or homosexual.

Collaborative therapy is intended primarily for adults, and for those Harry goolishian history.