8. Dreams (part two)
Two years on from my blog, “Dreams part one”, dreams seem less important to me. I mean by that, that few people seem to bring them to therapy. That may…
7. “Wait, hold, hold”; encounter and money
People come to see me and they have to pay. Because they are paying, they expect something. They would probably say that they feel bad and expect, by seeing me,…
6. Dreams (part one)
There are quite a lot of people who find dreams interesting. When I say interesting, I mean that they find it quite fun to hear someone else’s dream; or they…
5. Therapy: patterns of who we are
More ways of listeningYou will be fed up with me soon: all I talk about is listening. “Yes, yes,” you say, “I know therapy is about listening.” But then you…
4. Supervisors of therapy
Therapists need to have supervisorsWhy? I sometimes see the world of emotions as miniature hurricanes or tornadoes. There are areas of our experience where we get caught up and swirled…
3. Ways of listening
Therapists need to have had therapyYou may have had enough on listening, but I want to say a bit more. To train to be a psychotherapist, you have to be…
2. What happens in therapy?
Therapy - the last thing you want to do?Surely, almost no-one enjoys coming to therapy. Sometimes there is a real fear that if I talk about something, it will make…
1. What happens in therapy?
Who am I writing for?Hi. I am going to write for people who feel they know little or nothing about the world of therapy, but who would be interested in…