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One of the questions I put to supervisees about a client they present is ‘Why has he/she come to therapy?’. More often than not their answer today includes the word anxiety.
Up here in the wilds of North-West Scotland the nearest supermarket is 25 miles away and last Saturday morning I headed off there in my car to do the weekly shop. It’s the same journey I’ve done many times before, however, it’s anything but an ordinary drive…
One of the cliché questions that therapists are teased for asking is ‘How does that make you feel?’. I don’t care much for these questions because my experience is that they never seem to produce very much in response.
I share a few anecdotes with you as I think about some of the situations I’ve encountered in my work. They’re anonymised or composites. I’ve called them ‘From The Edge’.
To people entering therapy it can often feel like a huge deal. They don’t know us, they could be scared of what we might discover, they could have doubts about whether therapy might even make things worse for them.
What is the number of clients you should work with in private practice? What constitutes a manageable, viable and fulfilling case load? What is too few, too many, too little, or too much?
Are you feeling stuck with your clients? Why now and what can you do? Here are some tips for you to get The Work moving again.
Do you ever ask yourself this fundamental question? What are we actually offering our clients? What are they paying us for?
‘You’re my sixth therapist.’ Why would a client come to therapy expecting or even hoping that it would end in failure?
Supervision is invaluable for finding ways of helping quieter clients who need your help just as much.
Have you ever worried that you’ve revealed something about yourself to a client that you shouldn’t have?