Psychotherapy
By David Joel Miller, MS, Licensed Therapist & Licensed Counselor.
How should you respond to an unavailable professional?
One thing that counselors are supposed to avoid is “creating dependence” on the part of their clients. Our goal should not be to tell the client what to do but to help them learn what they need to learn to get through life. But many clients come to expect that they will get to see their therapist at a given time and place and they are likely to experience extra life difficulties when the counselor they are used to seeing is not available.
Some simple cases first.
The counselor is just not in the office today.
This problem is especially difficult for clients who have “trust issues.”
One thing counselors try to do is engage in a “corrective emotional experience.” You did not learn some things, emotional lessons, because the people you…
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