Within the span of one week, three different people asked me: how do you tell someone they need to go to therapy? When the first person asked, I just replied that talking what YOU have found helpful in your own therapy is the best way...
A good percentage of the people who seek therapy with me tell me that their previous counselor didn’t do much more in their sessions than listen, nod, and occasionally ask what they were feeling.So it shouldn’t have surprised me when a client several months ago...
If you’re willing to be objective and watch all your thoughts, you’ll see that the vast majority of them have no relevance. They have no effect on anything or anybody, except you. They are simply making you feel better or worse about what is going...
When I was growing up, my mom worked as a jr. high school guidance counselor. Friends would meet me, learn what my mom did for a living, and then ask if I had pep talks on self-esteem all the time. I don’t know if self-esteem...