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Therapy 101, How To Succeed in Therapy
People often spend months or years in therapy unnecessarily because they don’t know how to make the most of their experience. The wisdom on this list is common knowledge amongst therapists, but sadly very few clients have ever been let in on the secrets.
1. If something important is going unsaid during therapy; nothing else happens.
Therapy needs honesty. If there is something big on your mind that you are not sharing, therapy becomes a matter of “going through the motions”. People waste months or even years avoiding talking about something difficult. Warning signs of this are intrusive thoughts or images repeatedly coming to mind while you are talking about a different topic in therapy.
On the other hand, if something is extremely difficult to talk about, you may want to wait a while. You don’t want to bring up something that will make it hard for you to come back to therapy next week. When you do feel safe, the magic phrase to use is, “It is difficult for me to talk about, but…”
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