When you ask a client, right at the beginning of a session, “What do you need to work on and resolve before you leave here in an hour?”, you presuppose several important notions: first, the client’s responsibility for the therapeutic intervention’s success (“you need to work”); second, that the session is going to be successful in resolving the issue; and third, that this is going to happen within the next hour. When the client answers, and you verify that this desired outcome is achievable within the hour, you can say: “well, that’s great, so you say that when you get up from this chair in one hour and walk towards that door, you will be X and Y, and now we just need to work backwards from that moment and figure out the path there. Wonderful… Let’s begin! "