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Nov 18, 2020
3 min

Common Therapist Mistakes: Part 12 Assuming That Your Client Wants To Change

We've all experienced it. Those clients that ask for help and then don't change despite our best efforts. It is very frustrating for bot...

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Common Therapist Mistakes - Part 11: Resisting Resistance

Linda Buchanan

Jul 30, 2020
5 min

Common Therapist Mistakes - Part 11: Resisting Resistance

How to address your clients' resistance to change. Do you resist resistance. If so, you may find yourself in uncomfortable power struggles.

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From One Therapist to Another: When Client's Don't Want to Be There

Linda Buchanan

Mar 2, 2020
5 min

From One Therapist to Another: When Client's Don't Want to Be There

During Lauren's sessions, she repeatedly said that she did't want to be in therapy. She seemed to feel like I was going to take something fr

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From One Therapist to Another: Do You Talk Too Much?

Linda Buchanan

Dec 16, 2019
2 min

From One Therapist to Another: Do You Talk Too Much?

Being sensitive can enhance our effectiveness as a therapist but it can also enhance a need to be understood leading to being too talkative

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From One Therapist to Another - Potential Hazards in Individual Therapy: Part 2

Linda Buchanan

Nov 18, 2019
5 min

From One Therapist to Another - Potential Hazards in Individual Therapy: Part 2

When clients talk about people who are not in the room, a false narrative may be operating. This can be lead us down the wrong path.

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From One Therapist to Another: 10 Most Common Therapist Mistakes

Linda Buchanan

Oct 29, 2019
6 min

From One Therapist to Another: 10 Most Common Therapist Mistakes

10 most common mistakes that therapists make. Therapists can improve their effectiveness by increasing awareness of these common mistakes.

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From One Therapist to Another: Should we Tell our Clients What we Hope They Will See?

Linda Buchanan

Oct 9, 2019
4 min

From One Therapist to Another: Should we Tell our Clients What we Hope They Will See?

How do therapists show people where to look without telling them what to see? help them see their ambivalence rather than give suggestions.

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From One Therapist to Another: Clients Lie in Psychotherapy! What?!?

Linda Buchanan

Sep 24, 2019
4 min

From One Therapist to Another: Clients Lie in Psychotherapy! What?!?

Barry Farber et al., surveyed 547 psychotherapy clients and found that 91% admitted to lying in psychotherapy, and 84% on a regular basis.

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From One Therapist to Another: Do No Harm

Linda Buchanan

Sep 4, 2019
4 min

From One Therapist to Another: Do No Harm

I wonder if I unknowingly participate i at timesi n helping one part of an interpersonal system change without considering the consequences

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