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Old Oct 22, 2013, 07:50 PM
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My T is not in therapy, or at least he wasn't when we discussed this a few years ago. Not too long ago, he upgraded his license, and for this, he had to have some additional hours supervision, but this isn't the same as therapy.

I don't understand the discussion about CBT and psychodynamic therapy. I would think many therapists could benefit from therapy and it doesn't matter if they come from a CBT background or psychodynamic. Plus, there are a number of other orientations, not just those two. It could be that a T would want therapy in a different orientation than he practices. I remember reading a blurb from Irvin Yalom's son, also a therapist, and he said that he did a number of courses of therapy, each from a different orientation, and he learned different things about himself and was helped in different ways by each one. When I worked in a psychiatric hospital, I was getting some secondary trauma from the patients, and I worked on this in therapy using trauma techniques. You use what approach will help you, and with a therapist that you have a good alliance with. It didn't matter what techniques I used with patients for me to be able to benefit from my T's trauma approach.
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