Before Your Next Session's Notes
How to Structure a First Couples Session
The most common first-session dynamic is one partner who has been pushing for this for a year and one who agreed to come once. Name it out loud.
How to Structure a First Couples Session
The most common first-session dynamic is one partner who has been pushing for this for a year and one who agreed to come once. Name it out...
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Why You Can Feel Worse After a Good Therapy Session
People quit therapy over this, concluding it isn't working for them. Several different things produce the same feeling, and they call for different responses.
Why You Can Feel Worse After a Good Therapy Session
People quit therapy over this, concluding it isn't working for them. Several different things produce the same feeling, and they call for different responses.
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Working With Ambivalence: Using the Stages of Change in Session
The client who agrees with everything, thanks you warmly, and changes nothing isn't resisting. That's usually contemplation being treated as action.
Working With Ambivalence: Using the Stages of Change in Session
The client who agrees with everything, thanks you warmly, and changes nothing isn't resisting. That's usually contemplation being treated as action.
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Therapy-Speak: What These Words Actually Mean
The words have precise meanings. The gap between the clinical meaning and the group-chat meaning is where the trouble starts.
Therapy-Speak: What These Words Actually Mean
The words have precise meanings. The gap between the clinical meaning and the group-chat meaning is where the trouble starts.
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8 Open-Ended Questions That Actually Open a First Session
Gathering history and building an alliance compete for the same fifty minutes. Here's how to spend them, and the question most clinicians skip.
8 Open-Ended Questions That Actually Open a First Session
Gathering history and building an alliance compete for the same fifty minutes. Here's how to spend them, and the question most clinicians skip.
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The ACCEPTS Skills: What to Do When You Can't Fix It Right Now
ACCEPTS won't solve the problem, and it isn't meant to. It's for the interval between the thing happening and being able to do anything about it.
The ACCEPTS Skills: What to Do When You Can't Fix It Right Now
ACCEPTS won't solve the problem, and it isn't meant to. It's for the interval between the thing happening and being able to do anything about it.
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