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Originally Posted by sunrise
It was interesting that she said "therapy love" was not taught in CBT or IT. Does she mean that they aren't taught that it exists? Or aren't taught how to deal with it if a client needs it? How would Ts of these orientations deal with it if a client comes in with this issue? Would they ignore it? Say it is outside of their scope of practice and give a referral? Recast it as something else?--"you don't need nurturing in therapy, you need to think about this differently, and it will no longer be an issue for you." Also, she says that a "good therapist" will explore this yearning with the client. Does that include the CBT and IT therapists? Are they able to explore it even though they haven't learned about it in their training? If they don't explore it, are they not good therapists?
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Wow Sunny what a lot of questions!
My T says she is basically CBT but in fact she uses a lot of other "techniques" as she sees the need (I recoil from the idea of "nurture" for myself but she has definitely brought it up, I have a feeling I will hear more about that in future).
Maybe the key is that a "good therapist" is open to the ideas of more than one "orientation" to better match the endless variety of clients. Your own T I believe you have said in the past is somewhat experimental, maybe to a surprising degree at times

and he sounds like a keeper. just my thoughts