Month: February 2019

  • You tricked me!

    “My patient declined to explore a problem which previously she adamantly wished to do. I respected her position and asked her to identify a different problem that she did want to work on. She revealed something very close to the topic she had wished to avoid. When asked for a detail she became furious and…

  • Why is learning therapy hard?

    In supervision, a supervisor lets us know when we made a mistake, so that next time we can make a better intervention that leads to healing. But it hurts to learn we made a mistake. Why? It’s not just because it hurts our self-esteem. When we make a mistake in therapy, we either cause or…