Therapy blogs/websites

I like this child therapist: https://presentmomentlearning.org *blush*

She comes across as sincere and caring about her child clients.

I absolutely don't understand how you could interpret my post that way. Keep in mind that interpreting someones post in a certain way doesn't mean that the post really has that meaning.

I was just wondering how come that I don't find her post condescending, or awful or self-centered or any of this. I don't mind if anyone does though - I feel no need to protect her. I was just wondering what is it that makes someone see her writing in such a light? Obviously it is something that I miss and I most definitely miss bad therapy experience. Interpret it as you like.

I'm really glad to see this.

Did any of my observations outlined in my previous post answer your curiosity at all?

I read another of her posts Inside/Outside: Chaos but saw none of the issues I mentioned in my last post. She sounded like a different therapist altogether.

Guess she has favourite clients

I did not see it in the blog before reading this post here, but exactly what I was thinking while reading Linda's stories. That they don't sound real, that they are not real conversations with real people. To me, they feel far too contrived and placed into the framework of how some therapists think, to be real. Bad and misleading fiction, IMO. The blog also reminds me why I ended up disliking psychoanalysis: whatever the client says is infused with these ordinary, simplistic interpretations, brought back to parents and family, or the relationship with the T. For me it got old quickly, there is much more to life and the psyche than these cliches.

Wow, really? This one made my eyes roll back so far in my head I could see behind me.

Re: Linda Sherry blog. Bizarre!!! I read 4 of her fictional stories and 3 of them involved killing, lack of understanding and empathy, client shaming, and of course painting herself as being a Savior-type. I smell a psychopath. Lol.

She didn't seem self-centered in that one...but I have concentration problems and just skimmed through it, so I'll take your word for it.

(These blogs are actually very boring to me.)

I like the Life in a Bind one a lot

I've read Dr Burgo's blog and he's not very nice. I was amazed how many loyal followers can't see straight through him.

I found an article about the borderline client on a blog called gettinbetter and it was horrible. So effing condescending but under the guise of "they're my favorite clients" BS.

I agree about burgos one. He seems insensitive to me

He seems quite similar to my first T, although mine comes across nicer and more attuned on media. I am also amazed at how mine can always collect a bunch of followers that admire him and buy his stuff. I think they get away with things and are most likely be followed by people who already have a problem with staying in bad relationships and trust the wrong people. And since many therapy clients have these kinds of issues, their image and practice can attract and succeed.

Came back to add another blog I like: https://whatashrinkthinks.com/

It's not exclusively about therapy, although she does blog about therapy often, but it's also a glimpse into a therapist's life. That may not interest some which I understand but I try to "humanize" therapists in my mind to help me understand my therapist better, that she has a life outside of therapy and I have no idea what goes on in it so it helps me to be more empathetic.

Lol, I see red when I read her blog! This one specifically: Inside/Outside: The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing but the Truth

She immediately assumes her client is lying? She ends up to be lying of course, but not after Linda talks about how ~ smart ~ she is for immediately figuring out the schtick and then patting herself on the back for deciding to stick with the client. Give me a break.

Wow, yeah, I'm reading some of Linda's blog and having the same reaction. Like, "Oh, I'm being such a perfect T!" And speculating on how much plastic surgery the new client had? WTF?

Thanks for suggesting this one--I'm enjoying reading it. This one was especially entertaining, on the use of tissues in therapy and different styles of clients with tissues:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog...-psychotherapy

I tend to be like the "marsupial" at times, but sometimes I just get away with one or two tissues for eye dabs. Or occasionally none at all.

I'm more of a W.W.K.D.?, except in a fidgety way, not a reverent way. I like the Ryan Howe blog for its occasional irreverence. It was also how I figured out that I really can do whatever I want/need to do in therapy and that there aren't really any "rules" (except maybe pay your bill and don't commit any crimes in there).