All posts tagged "responsibility"
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Responsibility For Change
Most clients come to therapy with the stated intent of changing some aspect of their lives, but when...
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Telling Your Story As The Expert
Most therapists, regardless of the psychological theories they use, consider themselves to be experts, and rightfully so. The...
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Overcoming Impatience
Good therapists are always skeptical of and make sure to challenge comments like “He makes me so angry,”...
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Choices
Humans don’t like feeling cornered. We like to know we have options, that our free will is intact,...
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Victimized
Hutch, one of my mentors in graduate school, told a story that has stuck with me over the...
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Disqualifying The Positives
We all engage in faulty thinking patterns and have incorrect perceptions of events sometimes. Whether these patterns cause...
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Take Credit For Growth
Sometimes people believe they are responsible for things they had little to do with yet believe they had...
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Bad Mood
Most good-natured people hate being in a bad mood. And right there we have the problem. It’s an...
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Going It Alone
I often get asked by people struggling with life issues if therapy is really necessary or if they...
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Self-Advocacy
“If there is one lesson that I have learned during my life as an analyst, it is the...
