Tag: Therapy
That Cancellation Policy, Though…
Cold Hard Fact: I have a very strict cancellation policy, and here’s why.
Somatic Psychotherapy
WHAT THE HECK IS SOMATIC PSYCHOTHERAPY?! It’s just a fancy way of saying that you are going to actively engage your body while doing psychotherapy. ...
A Therapy Relationship Is Not A Real Relationship
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve heard from people that a therapy relationship is not a real relationship. It’s a pretty universal assumption. ...
Therapy Doesn’t Work
When therapy doesn’t work, it’s because you are talking about your feelings or talking about events that happened in the past, you aren’t feeling them. ...
Let’s Face It, Therapy Is Weird. Here’s Why.
An example I found from a Google search sums it up.
What is the Unconscious?
In psychotherapy, “the unconscious” is a thing, it is not the physical state of being passed out. It is commonly referred to as the “subconscious,” ...
How Something Random Can Set Back Your Mental Health
Many people believe that long lost childhood experiences have no bearing on their mental health as adults. I can't count the number of times I ...
I Think I’m Falling in Love with my Therapist!?!??!!
I just read a Yahoo Answers thread with this title: “I think I’m falling in Love with My Therapist.” As a Licensed Mental Health Therapist, ...
Using Transference in Therapy
Technically speaking, transference is “an exceedingly complicated concept... best defined, for practical purposes... the tendency to repeat, in a current setting, attitudes, feelings, impulses, and ...
How Long Does Therapy Take?
As a counselor I am often asked, How long does therapy take? Unfortunately, I don’t have a simple answer for this question. Therapy, counseling, psychotherapy, ...
