Evan, Melissa, and Eli explore how assuming a clients' needs may negatively impact their growth within therapy. Topics also explored regard:
- Mental health professionals are underpaid
- How private practice marketing draws clients that a culturally similar
- Community-based planning compared to counseling agendas
- Presenting problem, adaptations, and what skill is needed to combat
- Getting caught in trauma dramas
- When might reflection of sadness be maladaptive
- Tracking language in session
- Even Hitler threw great parties
- Open chair photo and mirror technique how to mitigate client performance energy
- Shame recycling
- What the hell is sycophantic?
- How the adaptive becomes maladaptive
- Framing client scripts as code and OS
- Internal vs external locus of control
- Effective strategies to invite client to gain sense of internal locus of control
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