Responsive Therapy shows students how to develop the skills required to apply counseling theories learned in other courses. It covers a combination of psychological and communication theories and viewpoints--focusing on the learning principles that underlie client change--and then guides students to select from the range of theoretical models.

Responsive Therapy employs a general process approach that applies to all clients and promotes relationship building, client circumstance and style identification, and counselor-client collaboration in determining a focused and active intervention. Micro-skills training is discussed through descriptions, examples, and exercise that help students learn skills necessary to establish an effective therapeutic alliance.