This study identifies ethical acts in psychotherapy, constructs a theoretical framework, and explores the structure of action for the therapist. The goal is to understanding therapeutic acts rather than patients through examination of ethical acts (defined as the construction of interpersonal ordering) occurring in encounters between therapists and theìr patients. First, seven recent studies concerning healing activities in Taiwanese society were examined in terms of phenomenological reduction. The conflict and reconciliation of persons in their collective lives outlined in these studies is discussed, and then directions of ethical action in psychotherapy constructed. Next, using empirical records as examples, concrete incidents from therapy were defined as ethical acts. Results showed suffering and healing are understood as whether “personal pondering” gets “thwarted” or “channeled” within the interpersonal constellation in which it is situated. Cultivating individual ego strength is not the only way to channel personal pondering into the interpersonal field. It can also be achieved by linking thwarted personal pondering into a broad space of “mystery” as a kind of channeling and self-placement, which further trigger a re-ordering of the interpersonal constellation. If this occurs, therapy is no longer aimed at individual “inner conflict” but the rearrangement of interpersonal ordering. Silencing the self-protecting “individualized self,” bringing forward “the self in channeling,” and re-ordering the interpersonal constellation in terms of connecting to a broad space of mystery, emerge as three possible ethical acts in psychotherapy. In addition to providing an alternative horizon for psychotherapy, this study supports the argument that defining psychotherapy as a series of ethical acts matches the preference for collectivity in Chinese societies. This study may therefore be understood as a fundamental work for developing theories and techniques of psychotherapy for people in Chinese societies.