How the Client Will Test You
The client needs to know if you have the right kind of strength and will often test you to discover if you are as caring as you should be, and if you are as strong and combative as you should be.
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Communication Skills
Therapists often listen to words, to stories, to psychic histories and do not listen to the actual communications that the client is offering.
Irrational Subconscious Beliefs
Begin your relationship with the realization that the client you meet in therapy is not fully rational, or fully capable of responding in an adult manner to the demands of the specific frustrating situations.
The Value of Respect
The best therapists function as sources of support, inspiration, and motivation. The essential ingredients are the therapist’s genuine awareness of, respect for, and willingness to be responsive to the needs of the client. Clients do not enter therapy to be lectured, ignored or controlled; they enter therapy to be understood and assisted in their attempts …
How Change Occurs
There are many alternatives in every situation, yet the neurotic believes “It’s got to be this or that”! Reacting to the good and the bad in life, and dealing with it creatively, is the real joy in life. “Deal with what emerges” is always the primary rule. Providing the client with alternatives sets the stage …