Myths About Therapy: Hard Work
Over the next few weeks, I would like to debunk a few common assumptions people seem to have about therapy, therapists, and clients....
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All Talk, No Action
I was trained as a therapist to understand that there is only one rule of therapy—all talk, no action. In other words, the therapy hour...
How To Live Your Life
People come to therapy when things aren’t going well for them. Sometimes it’s an isolated thing (e.g., an unfulfilling sex life), but...
There's No Use Complaining (Except There Is)
Our culture has the attitude that complaining is a waste of time. The idea is that complaining about something (like not making enough...
More Than Tools
The way I see it, therapy is not about teaching you tools and techniques to live your life, for the simple reason that they don't exist....
Why Talk To A Professional?
Thinking about things is like driving a car, whereas saying them is like walking. Much of the scenery is inaccessible to a person in a...
The Last Resort
Therapeutic work is characterized by a series of delicate balances. For example, your counselor should not come across as another friend...
Problems and Goals
Problems and goals are part of the common narrative of getting help. It's an easy narrative to tell, which is why it is told over and...
The Question of Eye Contact
Entire books could be written about eye contact, but for the sake of brevity, let’s limit our consideration to eye contact in the...
Therapy and Culture
An interesting hypothesis is that the effectiveness of therapy has an inverse relationship with the culture’s acceptance of therapy as a...
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