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Entering Counseling with Realistic Expectations of the Therapist and the Process: Six Things to Consider
Therapy can be helpful to many, but the unknowns about how it works can contribute to some hesitation in getting started. Here I provide an idea of what a client can expect from the experience. 1. Therapists do not possess a magic wand with which we can undo all the bad in someone’s life. As…
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My Dos and Don’ts as a Therapist, Part I (The Dos)
This week I thought I would start giving my blog readers some insight into how I do things as a therapist. Being in this profession, all therapists have ethics that hopefully we all adhere to. Beyond that, I would imagine most therapists do conduct their assessment and therapy sessions in a pretty similar way. I…