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When you are looking for your third, fourth or more therapist….

Gary Direnfeld

Sometimes I am the third or fourth therapist. I ask who between them didn’t like the previous therapists. The other is continuing to therapist shop, hoping to find one that can finabreak through to their partner not taking responsibility. Sometimes they have seen more before calling me. Thing is, neither may change.

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Three-Hour Sessions? Sure!

Gary Direnfeld

I asked how many therapists they saw before me. You can be remarkably responsive to people’s needs and earn a good income as a therapist. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. She said, “Three.

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Three Questions to Improve Your Counseling Practice

Gary Direnfeld

To my social work and therapist colleagues: Typically after my first meeting with people I serve, I would ask three questions: 1) What are your takeaways from our meeting? He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice.

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Couple Counseling? Maybe in time….

Gary Direnfeld

This is where the therapist must make a decision. It doesn’t mean the therapist is comfortable with the possible degree of risk. If the one who has been violent and/or controlling refuses to attend or afterwards refuses to allow communication between their partner and therapist to review progress, those are red flags.

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When Little Ones Play Dress-Up

Gary Direnfeld

Hopefully they (the parents) can meet with a therapist to come to understand child development and that gender is expressed on a continuum, that their child will be best served by allowing the child to be their authentic self. Gary maintains a private practice in Georgina Ontario, providing a range of services for people in distress.

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Realizing One’s Partner is a Narcissist

Gary Direnfeld

She eventually met with a therapist for herself. The therapist listened but offered little guidance. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. She felt duped, trapped, scared. It came to her. He was a narcissist.

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Taming The Tantrum

Gary Direnfeld

He remembered the phrase, “Let him borrow your calm,” as told by the therapist. He consults to mental health professionals as well as to mediators and collaborative law professionals about good practice as well as building their practice. It took several minutes and a pound of faith. His son calmed.