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What should I ask a therapist in a discovery call or first session?
You can find a ton of articles and blog posts about the basic questions to ask a therapist when you first meet with them. They include questions about their background and training, their years of experience, the types of clients they have experience with, etc.
What most of those lists aren’t going to include, though, are questions that will help you know how a therapist handles the more challenging moments of therapy. And while I might be biased, my experience as a client and as a therapist is that most of the irreparable ruptures I have experienced are as a result of…
Do New Year’s Resolutions Work?
The statistics are out there to back up what we all know - that most of us tend to quickly abandon our new year’s resolutions. This is a well-known fact. And yet…
Should I Make New Year’s Resolutions?
I love reasons to start fresh.
I was one of the kids that loved the smell of the office supply store at the start of the school year, bringing with it the tangible sense of a new beginning (and I still can’t walk into one of them without a pang of nostalgia). I’ve always taken my birthday as a moment to reflect back and reset myself around what’s important to me. In any relationship I’ve had, I’ve always played up anniversaries of all kinds.
It only follows, then, that I’ve always been a fan of New Year’s resolutions. But because of the feeling of pressure…
What is Resistance?
I love resistance.
It honestly, truly, cross-my-heart brings me joy when people who seek me out for therapy express the parts of them that don't want therapy, healing, recovery, or whatever else they initially expressed that wanted to get from our work together.
The trick is…