[Lynn]

My strongest training as a therapist is in the various brief, strategic models based on linguistic theories and on the significance of the relationship, itself, as the vehicle for healing. I had a great teacher who talked about training like a samurai. He said, learn the techniques flawlessly and then forget them and just be in the moment. I have found this to be very useful. As far as TA is concerned, I think it's an outdated approach which mainly restates older theories into "hip" language. On the other hand, some clients find it useful as a metaphor to validate their own perceptions of what they're doing, or what they're seeing in their own lives. I have been known to draw the little circles and arrows, which is, I'm sure, just a rudimentary way of understanding TA.