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Third‑generation therapist; co‑creator of MBNET; trains therapists and hosts a therapy‑insider podcast.
Denigrating talk therapy as “just talking” is exactly what leads to outcomes like the disastrous Supreme Court decision on conversion therapy today. In most forms of therapy (including modalities whose practitioners like to distance themselves from the term talk therapy), talking IS the intervention, and it is a powerful one.
It’s more important for therapists to have a working knowledge of how to handle countertransference than it is for them to know literally anything about the autonomic nervous system.
Six years ago today, on Friday, March 13, 2020, I sent the email switching all my clients to telehealth. Some of them didn’t want to do online sessions; they said they’d rather wait a little, until things blew over. I...
I cannot even begin to describe how wrong most of you are about what talk therapy is.
