Therapies especially requiring patience—with yourself, with the challenge, or with the duration of therapy—include: A, H, M, X
§4 Initiative
Some approaches to therapy offer very little direction or specific advice from the therapist.
Do you feel that you have the initiative to proceed without explicit direction from the therapist? If so, what you probably need in a therapist is primarily the capacity to understand you well, to accept you as a person, and to encourage you in a warm and positive way to do what you think is best: B
§5 Tolerance to Frustration
Do you have a fairly high threshold of frustration when your beliefs and ideas are challenged? When you do not immediately get what you want, can you tolerate fairly well what may seem like a long route to get where you want to go? (Do you cope well with the frustration of getting lost in your car, for example?) Can you tolerate, without serious irritation, anger, or hurt, being pushed to confront some of the pretenses or distortions or illusions you may have lived by?
Can you accept, with some calmness of mind, having someone point out to you that you have not been as clear about things as you thought, and that sometimes your attitudes are not consistent, that you are, to some extent, confused? A, C, E, P
§6 Rigidity
Do you often find yourself trying to be, or wishing you were someone you're not? C