Gestalt therapy involves looking at an empty chair, imagining that a certain person with whom you’re having conflict is sitting there, and speaking to that absent individual. You then switch places, and speak as that individual, responding to you.
You won’t get anywhere if you just want your therapist to agree that everyone sucks and you’re always right. That’s not a helpful mindset in life, but many patients just get mad if their therapists ask them to accept any blame. Bullying your therapist into saying everyone in your life sucks besides you won’t get you far.
There are ways to work through the issues of your past in a way that doesn't ruin your current relationship.
Remember that, you are going to therapy because you feel you need to make some changes in your life. So be willing to make them. Real progress doesn’t come easily and it can require you to have an open mind, and be willing to accept hard truths about yourself.
I’ve dated individuals at various stages of therapy—spanning from one person who told me, after we’d been together for about six months, that he felt he needed to go into therapy to a guy who, after we’d been dating a year and a half, confessed he’d secretly been in therapy the whole time. Neither revelations […]
It doesn’t happen quite as much as it used to, but you still see it: someone mentions she’s in therapy, and everyone gives a polite smile, an awkward cough, and changes the subject.
Just like it seems like health care should be available to everyone—no matter their financial status—doesn’t it seem like mental health care should be accessible by the masses, too? It’s something you may not have thought much about, until you needed it. Many individuals have this frustrating, funny and ironic situation: they slowly come to […]
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(The Fredrick News Post) –Many small-business owners left the Frederick Entrepreneur Support Network’s experts and answers counseling event Wednesday grateful they attended. It’s always worth the time for just one piece of helpful information from such events, said Pam Belles of New Market .”To say that I walked away with one thing is an understatement,” she said. Belles needed […]