Ideas Worth Remembering
Writing on psychotherapy, supervision, couples and family life, and the everyday work of staying well.
We have built a profession that quietly rewards the wrong thing.
On the latest Got Therapy?, I asked Dr. Dan Rose a question that sounds philosophical but turns out to be a training question: do you think you have to be old to be wise?
Ask a room of counselors how they feel at a mandatory ethics workshop and you'll hear what Dr. Dan Rose told me on the latest Got Therapy?: "one of two things." Either "a sense of fear and dread because the things they're talking…
Near the end of the latest Got Therapy?, I asked Dr. Dan Rose a question I'd never heard put directly: "I don't know if we assess that in therapy." I meant curiosity: the client's, and ours.
I've recently been back through the ACA and AAMFT codes and the ACES supervision guidelines. I said on the latest Got Therapy? what any honest clinician would: "there's so much to know and to learn." Dr. Dan Rose's reply has…
On the latest Got Therapy? Dr. Dan Rose described a moment every clinical supervisor has watched and few of us name. A trainee is sitting with a client, and somewhere in the session they "suddenly become capital T therapists."