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A resistant client is a patient of professional psychological counseling who present a defiant or unwilling attitude in response to therapeutic assistance. A client may avoid counseling attempts for various reasons including a fear of intimacy or revelation, an unwillingness to face personal truths, a lack of interest in counseling. The ambivalence of reluctant clients to engage in the helping relationship can negatively affect the counseling, the need to block anxiety inducing awareness from the conscious mind. A tendency toward self destruction or low self-esteem. Other clients may be reluctant because of past experiences with counselors and agencies. These experiences may have been positive, and now the client is hesitant about starting over, negative, or even damaging. Perhaps too little resistance may be indicative of lack of progress. Handle issues of resistance systematically for the client’s own well-being process and outcome. The first step for the helper is to explore the reason for reluctance. Many people from different groups have an ingrained self-protective mistrust of white-controlled institution. Reluctance may also emanate from shame, embarrassment, or fear of exposure of secrets such as substance abuse or physical abuse. Many people fear the counselor’s indirect or direct judgment. For example a gay or lesbian couple may be uncomfortable sharing with a heterosexual helper their concerns about having a child together. Some people may be reluctant to seek and engage in a helping process because a court, employer, or family member is requiring their participation or because their family or ethnic group does not approve of counseling. You cannot change anyone else you can only change yourself. Many counselors have used this common bit of wisdom to help clients over come problems, but it is crucial that counselors internalize that idea