2005

For more than 100 years, therapy has been provided in an office, on couches or chairs (Pressly & Heesacker, 2001), removed from the real challenges of life and “far from the madding crowd.” Except for some intervention strategies used in systematic desensitization, therapy is traditionally conducted in an office setting, limiting creative therapeutic interventions, impeding client opportunity to practice novel ways of behaving, and constricting the enhancement of the client’s own resourcefulness through creativity. To address these limitations, therapy without walls was developed and continues to evolve, fostering creativity in both therapist and client.