View Single Post
 
Old Jun 18, 2012, 10:08 AM
-jimi-'s Avatar
-jimi- -jimi- is offline
Jimi the rat
 
Member Since: Dec 2008
Location: Northern Europe
Posts: 6,316
Quote:
Originally Posted by Towanda View Post
The trick is to remember that clients enter therapy subconsciously knowing the answer to their problems. The trick is to get them to open up and verbalize.
This really makes sense to me why some therapists are the way they are. Reading that, the heal thyself while I, the T is collecting money, actually makes sense! It never made sense to me before.

And why it didn't, was because I didn't have the answers. Whenever I have been helped, it had been because I had learned something new.

I never had an idea what to say in an unstructured environment. I always wanted to be guided by questions. And I saw those as a mean for them to get to know me, nothing else. I was lost, I sort of didn't know I was going for something within.

Also once a therapist said my second last session, that it was useless for me to go to therapy, since I already knew everything about my childhood (I have a good memory and was always good at analyzing). She said I knew everything at once that people learn after years in therapy. Whatever that means. Didn't heal me one bit.
Thanks for this!
SoupDragon