“Seriously? I just go blah, blah, blah, and my problems go away?” Over the past decade in practice, I have heard questions like this often when starting therapy with someone new, so I thought it would be useful to compile these simple–but admittedly sophisticated–questions in one place.

I have an elderly friend that I do typing for on occasion, and one day we were visiting and he asked me (with a twinkle in his eye as though telling a joke), “where does a pastor’s wife go if she needs to get advice about her marriage?”