"Psychotherapy might be called the science and art of establishing relationships. It allows people who do not know each other, and who come from profoundly different backgrounds, worldviews and circumstances, to engage in honest conversations that often lead to personal transformation. This transformation happens because therapy has rules of engagement, developed over decades, and based on premises such as that the way people enter into a conversation influences its outcome and that true change occurs only in the context of relationships." – Mary Pipher