Therapist's self-disclosure: Expanding the comfort zone

White most therapists engage in some form of disclosure, intentional decisions to share feelings and personal views with patients remain a complex area of clinical practice, This article offers parameters for the use of intentional self-disclosure in the context of an ongoing relational psychotherapy. When psychologically attuned and patient centered, intentional disclosure opens up space for deep therapeutic engagement between therapist and patient. It heightens self-perception, affective experience, and relational connection. Clinical vignettes are used to illustrate the intentional use of self-disclosure that opens up the possibility of deeply personal and transforming conversations between therapists and patients that advances psychotherapeutic aims.