A patient and a master? or a joint journey?

Dear Professionals!

When creating SAFE RELATIONSHIP™ , I thought not only about patients and how to help them most effectively. I was also thinking about you - therapists and all professionals working with children, teenagers and families. You, as well as patients, are important in a therapeutic relationship. A lot depends on you as you work with your own personality.

What system characterizes a therapeutic relationship? Is it a patient / client and a master, or is it a joint journey of two people?

I am definitely heart and soul for the second option. Although, by definition, a relationship of every professional with a patient / client is oblique (the patient almost always feels that they know less), I try to remember that I am an ordinary person, just like my patients. I feel that as therapists, just like our patients, we have ups and downs in our lives, we are simply human. And such a thought gives me the strength to work, allows me to look at myself with distance, disenchants the psychotherapist's social status. We are as ordinary as our patients. And when they feel this  normality in us, they perceive therapy as a joint journey full of hills and holes, just like everything in life.