Thoughts From a Therapist
Mental Health Services
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Self of the Therapist: The Capacities That Make a Balanced Therapist
What makes a good therapist goes beyond training. Explore the emotional, relational, embodied, ethical, and existential capacities behind the work.
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Is My Job to Make You Feel Better?
Sometimes therapy is meant to settle the nervous system. Sometimes it’s meant to challenge it. The harder work is recognizing which one you came…
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What is Transference in psychotherapy – placing emotional reactions related to another onto the therapist
Quick summary: Transference = when you transfer an emotion meant for one person onto a different person. Transference is unconscious = the person is…
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Psychotherapy Forum – Start a new Topic and Join the Discussion in the Wellness Forum
I have set up a Wellness forum for the readers of this blog… Start a new Topic and Join the Discussion in the Wellness…
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Do Therapists get Therapy? | Controlling bias and counter-transference in counseling
Quick summary: Many psychotherapy programs mandate that their students receive their own psychotherapy services… in my opinion it should be a requirement for all…
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How do you find the right therapist for you?
Quick summary: To find a therapist listen to your gut… just like most things in life your intuition tends to be correct… if it…
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Selfishness is also Selfless
Quick summary: If you allow yourself selfishness you can increase the effectiveness of your selfless intentions. There are many different types of people and…
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‘Empirically based practice’ has been proven irrelevant to therapy outcomes – empirically
Quick summary: check out www.scottmiller.com -With all the political talk about healthcare reform sometimes we can miss the idea of reforming the healthcare which…
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