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What makes a good therapy session?
Spoiler Alert: it’s not just a ‘good therapist.’
Whether you’re new to the therapeutic process or not, knowing how to utilize and evaluate your therapy sessions is very worthwhile knowledge. You and your therapist are both bringing different things to the table and investing into your time together, so you ought to know what to look for and how you can make the most of each session. Just like in any other profession, there are good therapists and poor ones, creative ones and lazy ones, good fits and bad fits. The same goes for clients! Some are actually willing to do the work and will see change as a result, while others just want to talk once a week and stay trapped in their comfort zones.
Why “Trying Harder” Doesn’t Work
“So I'm using the word infrastructure to make the point that if you have NEVER had a successful conversation with your partner where you felt heard, got your point across to where it was at least accepted if not agreed with, and did the same for your partner, then you have not actually been having a dialogue at all. You have been having two separate monologues and expecting the impossible…”
Common Issues Couples Fight Over Series: Part 5
It seems like every one of the posts in this series (Things Couples Fight Over) keeps coming back to one thing: our culture. Roles and responsibilities of a husband and wife are drastically shifted from what they were 100 years ago. While many of these changes are obviously positive and every couple is different, some cultural expectations put unnecessary subconscious pressure on us. We should not be looking to our culture as a healthy model for what marriage should look like. If the world was doing it right, there would be far more happy longterm marriages.
