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The Only Guide You Need to Become Your Own Therapist

Social Work Haven

Unfortunately, not everyone has the opportunity to get professional help and go through psychotherapy with a specialist. As a result, I will be discussing some ideas on how to be your own therapist. By all means be your own therapist until you can’t be any more and need someone else. This is also a personal preference.

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How Improv theater is like therapy | NASW Member Voices

Social Work Blog

I’m a mere therapist, but if I could share one piece of life advice with anyone, it would be this: Take an improv class. And, improv teachers and therapists cultivate an environment of support, empathy, validation, and a space to improve skills. Both disciplines aim for presence of mind and spirit.

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The Delicate Balancing of the Couples Therapist

American Board of Clinical Social Work

Most forms of psychotherapy require that the therapist perform a “delicate balancing act” between competing forces. In Neurodynamic Couples Therapy, there are primarily three areas in which the delicate balancing of the couples therapist is required for therapeutic success.

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psychotherapy's moral bite: on deactivating the projection of will

Clinical Philosophy

What distinguishes the master therapist? I've long suspected that an important aspect of such a therapist is her moral seriousness. So, what I don't mean is moral shrillness, or moralising, or a failure of empathy, or an absence of the light touch, or an inability to take oneself less than seriously (i.e. And now the example.