In this article I want to look at how the therapeutic interaction occurs, and who is responsible for what in the process of this interaction. The therapy process can be roughly divided into the following stages: Stage zero: Psychologist: decides what he is going to work with, who exactly he is working with and who he is not working with, places an advertisement for an appointment. Client: realizes that he has some kind of problem and chooses to work with a psychologist, and not to drink vodka, endure “maybe it will pass,” or go headlong into work. Looks for information about suitable specialists - through recommendations, on the Internet, through newspaper advertisements. He chooses the specialist who he believes can help solve his problem. The selection criteria are very diverse: by education, by available reviews, by appearance, by topics that the psychologist indicated in the advertisement, by cost, etc. Calls, writes or otherwise negotiates work with a specific specialist. First stage (Pre-contact): Client: by entering the office or getting in touch via the Internet, he interacts with a specialist. The number of ways to present a problem and find out whether the right specialist has been chosen is also very large: the client can talk non-stop or warily ask for confirmation of qualifications. One way or another, the client finds out whether this specialist is suitable for him or not. Psychologist: communicates with the client, determining what, in fact, the problem (request) with which he came, whether he can help solve this problem or refuse, whether it is solvable problem in principle. Second stage (Contact): The client and psychologist jointly explore the problem, determining how it affects the client and the psychologist - what thoughts and feelings arise, what desires it evokes, how the client lives with it. Third stage (Contact): At this stage, the study of the problem leads to a meeting with the difference in the client’s understanding of the problem and how the psychologist sees it. The problem is reviewed, rethought and rephrased, and the request may be changed. Stage four (Post-contact): The client and the psychologist break up. The client processes the experience gained during a meeting with a psychologist, decides to rely on this experience in his life, or to turn it away as unrealistic for use, to continue working with this psychologist, to look for another, or to decide that psychologists cannot help him at all. The psychologist analyzes the work, thinks about what happened between him and the client, and thinks through options for further work with this client or with similar clients. Responsibility, in my opinion, is distributed as follows: Client: Responsible for - the choice of a specialist and the consequences of this choice, - determining whether the selection criteria were correct, - compliance with the rules and agreements with the specialist, - and, most importantly, for the choice to apply or not the received experience and how to apply it. Psychologist: In addition to the self-evident educational requirements, he is responsible for: - working during a session with a client, - applying the techniques and experience at his disposal, - deciding whether or not to work with a given client, - following the rules and agreements with the client, - maintaining confidentiality, - and, most importantly, for transferring responsibility to the client for how he decides to apply the experience gained.