Do you think a therapist job is to...

Say "uncomfortable" things?
Mine shared this is her view .

I don't believe that's the main goal or objective of a therapist. I think they should validate your experience or feelings, and be objective...if they are not supposed to "tell you what to do", which I believe they use that as a way to be completely cut off from offering real guidance, then why would telling a person negative, uncomfortable things, be more important, than giving helpful tips? Most people are there not from having positive helpful people or experiences...they are there often due to horrible experiences already😢

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hartfire · 61-69

Therapists vary greatly in their methods.

A person like Fritz Pearls was famous for his blunt confrontations.

Some therapists might organise an intervention in which all the people close to are client are invited into a circle and asked to say how the client's actions affect them.

Some will avoid all response to anything the client says that is negative or harmful, but will offer a nudge of encouragement whenever the client says or does anything that moves in the direction of creating a more functional lifed and relationships.

And, of course, there's everything in between.