Friday, May 13, 2016

As a relatively new psychotherapist, I used to think about how I could help clients to spend their session with me in a most productive way. How could I shorten the gab and get to the heart of what was troubling them? With the passage of time, I came to realize it made no difference what a client brought up, whether it was what they had for breakfast or the major concerns in their world. If I listened, the big picture was evident no matter what subject matter was introduced, no matter how they spent their brief time with me. Sometimes, discussing breakfast was more effective than focusing on their troubling wounds.

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