A while ago, The New York Times ran article on how to choose a therapist. Some #IYI academic psychologist said most important question to ask prospective therapist is “What manuals do you use.” NO, NO, NO. Most important question is, “How much personal therapy have you had?”

“Pain in this life is not avoidable, but the pain we create avoiding pain is avoidable.” ― R.D. Laing

As a POC, the more I think about how modern psychotherapy is essentially developed and applicable to the West, I feel there are gaps in it’s application locally across the world. Colonisation isolated colonised societies from their traditional therapeutic ideas #therapistsconnect

Insights occur when a person feels safe to have them. - Alan Rappoport (1997)

“This colleague raised the question of whether senior analysts should still ask other colleagues for advice and guidance. Meltzer’s answer was this: “Oh, analysts who stop asking for supervision are finished, really.” - Long-Term Psychoanalytic Supervision with Donald Meltzer

Therapists, help me out. What's the ICD code for: Nothing is clinically "wrong", patient is experiencing basic human emotions due to racism, sexism, homophobia, removal of rights, and a pandemic?

A key function of good psychotherapy is to reveal that which is hidden.

Every session with your therapists doesn’t have to be heavy. I actually have clients who have met all of their treatment goals but want to continuously grow.

Without a doubt, one of the most important jobs in the world is that of a therapist. Equally, without a doubt, one of the most difficult jobs in the world is that of a therapist. -Ladany et al. (2008) Practicing Counseling and Psychotherapy.

Bio-psycho-social-spiritual-STRUCTURAL model of wellbeing.

To demedicalise distress is not to delegitimise distress. One can honor, respect and care for profound suffering without labeling it as illness, pathology or disorder.

learn about our context. it is not on us to educate you.

“Did you set a boundary or did you make a request?”

Those who have worked with children may be familiar with the principle: Connection Before Correction. This principle applies to young and old. Without understanding the meaning behind a behavior, how can we hope to change it?

The goal of therapy is self-awareness, empowering the person to assume the expert role in their own lives.

A therapist cannot go to a party without someone saying, “I bet you’re psychoanalyzing me right now!”

The main principle of #neurodiversity affirmative #counselling and therapy is that we do not seek to correct or change a person’s inherent neurodivergent traits. We don’t see neurodivergence as deviance, defectiveness or pathology.

All therapy is grief work. A process of confronting a life where you expect one thing and get another, a life that brings you the unexpected and unanticipated.” Edith Eva Eger #therapy #grief #expectations