The therapeutic link in the speech therapy clinic: a necessary reflection.

Purpose: To understand the meanings that the therapeutic bond assumes for clinical speech therapists.

Methods: The research was approved by the Ethics Committee, being of a transversal character, with a quantitative-qualitative approach in the Content Analysis. The research with the participation of 96 clinical speech therapists, registered in the Speech Therapy Council of the 3rd region (CRFa 3), which covers the States of Paraná and Santa Catarina.