Tell Me About Your Mother
Welcome to “Tell Me About Your Mother,” a podcast for psychotherapists by psychotherapists, where we explore issues related to our profession, filtering them through our professional, and sometimes personal and humorous, lens. Each episode, Evan and Melissa offer food for thought by bringing their experience and humanity to help you strengthen your practice of psychotherapy. We would love to connect with you at contactus@tellmeaboutyourmother.run.
Tell Me About Your Mother
Episode 42: Control Patterns
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- Transference begins even in the initial consultation with a client
- Operating from “control pattern"
- Ineffectiveness of solely practicing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy and Rogerian Therapy
- The importance of conflict in therapy
- Therapy should go far beyond the clients’ presenting problems
- They “why” isn’t as important as the “what”
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