Therapist Alliance & Process Check-Up
About this tool
This check-up is designed as a companion tool to the client-facing Therapy Check-Up. Where the client tool asks how therapy is going from their perspective, this instrument invites you — the therapist — to examine the same relationship from yours.
It draws on foundational research in therapeutic alliance, including Bordin’s working alliance model (bond, goals, and tasks), the Session Rating Scale, and the literature on countertransference management and rupture-repair. Use it as a regular reflective practice tool, before supervision, or when a client’s progress has stalled.
Domains assessed
Rate each item 1 (Strongly disagree) through 5 (Strongly agree) based on your experience with a specific client over recent sessions. Each domain will advance automatically once all items are answered. You may go back to any section to revise your responses.
Enter client initials, case number, or a pseudonym. Nothing is saved, transmitted, or stored.
Therapeutic Bond & Rapport
The quality of the emotional connection, trust, and collaborative spirit between you and this client.
Shared Goals & Treatment Direction
The degree to which you and this client share a clear, agreed-upon treatment focus and direction.
Clinical Attunement & Approach Fit
How well your clinical understanding, methods, and timing align with this client’s needs and readiness.
Client Engagement & Progress
The quality of client engagement within sessions and the evidence of movement toward therapeutic goals.
Alliance Health & Rupture Response
Your active monitoring of the relational climate, and your capacity to address and repair strains when they arise.
Therapist Self-Awareness & Self-Factors
Your awareness of how your own reactions, values, history, and competence may be influencing this work.