What a good counselor/therapist is: I can’t speak to what other people do, but I can tell you what I do in therapy and what most of my closest colleagues do. We teach people how to have compassion for themselves, and as part of this process of staying curious and open-hearted, people learn and feel things about themselves which allow them to release the constraints and burdens that have kept them from feeling good. Most people come to therapy hating a part of themselves, or at least wanting to get rid of or change some part of themselves. The therapist’s job is to help the person separate from his or her fear, dislike, judgment, and other reactions and feelings until the person is able to be curious. Through the process of listening to the parts of themselves that brought them to therapy, people begin to understand why the parts have been feeling or acting certain ways. This learning process leads to self-compassion, and when the trailhead is followed to its depths, the origins of the drama can be found and attended to in a way that helps the person make not just intellectual breakthroughs, but tremendous emotional and somatic shifts which change his or her life forever. Source: goodtherapy.org/blog/myth-madness-therapist-will-interrogate-blame-and-shame-me-1014137
Posted on: Tue, 19 Nov 2013 07:53:02 +0000
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