Therapy with a Map
A Cognitive Analytic Approach to Helping Relationships
by Steve Potter
A therapeutic relationship is a web of interactions, tasks and processes in space and time. It is not easy to stay aware of the relationship in the thick of talking and trying to help someone; but therapists who attend to relational factors have a far greater chance of enabling change. Drawing on Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT), Therapy with a Map sets out a therapeutic process of talking accompanied by visual conversation maps set down in real time on paper.