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Originally Posted by treehouse
Therapy NEVER would have worked for me this way. I need to be able to work on things at a pace that's comfortable for me, and I especially needed that during the hardest parts of telling my story. Luckily, my therapist is flexible and trusts me to know what I need.
If I was really wavering back and forth, he would work with me to figure out what the wavering was about. We would take as long as we need to do that and then once things were clearer, we would keep moving forward in whatever direction felt right.
There is no "right" way to do therapy. We all find our own paths.
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no this approach I suggested to zooropa doesnt work for everyone. I suggested it to zooropa based on my opinion that zooropa was upset because the therapist was agreeing every time they made a change. people dont always know why they are bouncing their therapist around. sometimes there is an underlieing problem that the cleint can talk about but most of the time when its happened around here we get the phrase "I don't know". so around here we dont dig for the uderlieing just to get told I dont know. first we look at the type of person it is. is this a type of person who needs more structure and stability to their sessions instead of our being so flexxible? then we approach the client like I did Zooropa suggesting maybe they need more rules and less flexability. that opens the door for discussion instead of asking why are you changing things back and forth and getting I dont know. suggesting the change of control during sessions the client can tell us how they feel about having control or not having control of the sessions. in the process sometimes if there is an underlieing issue it comes up during this time. why waste time with "I dont knows" when we can approach it from a different direction of suggesting a change and opening discussion.