The first session or two are used for evaluation/assessment. This means that your psychologist takes the time to get to know you, the difficulties you are encountering, and the history of these difficulties in a lot of detail. You will be given the option to fill out certain questionnaires, depending on the reason for consultation, in advance of your initial appointment, which you can bring with you and give to your psychologist to speed things up. All this information is then used by your psychologist to help you set goals for therapy and to adapt an approach that is tailor made for you.