by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Therapy
In today’s therapeutic landscape, people have to be aware of multiple competing approaches to dealing with life struggles and emotional pain. Sometimes in the public eye, it would appear that an approach named CBT or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is the only effective...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Therapy, Trauma
The Past Never Lasts: Changing the Past from the Future “The past never lasts”. Such was the slogan posted on a colleagues’ bulletin board, when I worked in a treatment center for traumatized adolescents. My colleague used it to remind her young clients that things...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Therapy
Recently I came across an excellent video on some of the common misperceptions many people have about psychotherapy that might stop them from ever seeing a therapist. As the short video below from my colleagues at the The School of Life in London illustrates, these...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Therapy
What happens in good therapy is hard to explain to someone who has not yet experienced it. Why is that? Because the person who enters the therapy room often isn’t the person therapy will reveal her to be. Her very goals and definitions of who she is belongs to...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Psychodynamic Therapy, Therapy
When people come to therapy it is usually because they have identified some behavior, some feeling, or some aspect of their life which they find problematic and want to change. Yet psychotherapists have long known that clients usually resist the very changes which...
by rulamo | Nov 29, 2020 | Therapy
The vast majority of people who are contemplating seeing a therapist will be marred by doubts and reservations that may ultimately get in the way of following through. Some of these concerns may be quite rational and practical, but others are typically roadblocks we...
