Allan Wade explains her approach to therapy for individuals who experience acts of violence. It is not that they conflict violence on to others, but they fall victim to it, and they need to process the situation. I personal don’t recall much about the different techniques and approaches that a therapist would use, but I just can’t relate to the way Wade goes about it. I am not saying that I don’t agree, but I haven’t recognized it in pop culture’s depictions of therapy. This is probably why she is going about this route; it is not the norm. She approaches therapy by focusing on and redefining resistance. She explains that North American popular culture’s skews the ideas of resistance. There is a misconception that resistance, at most, is a physical action going against equal strengths. Wade goes further to include that aspects of male-to-male combat coincides with the patriarchal norms of the USA and become the model of what is acceptable. These ideologies of resistance hinders those who are victims of abuse; the minorities within the patriarchy. They don’t realize that any action that goes against is a form of resistance, physical or not. Then, therapists tend to make assumptions that clients know of, or recognize their methods they use to resist abuse. In the example of Joanne’s sessions, Wade’s therapy method aided in the client to progress in healthier habits once the acts or resistances were rediscovered and shown as motivational attributes in getting better.