Therapy
You've been showing up and talking and you don't know whether you're getting better and you can't tell anymore if therapy is the answer.
Therapy is a category that contains many different practices, frameworks, and outcomes. The common assumption is that therapy works if you find the right therapist and stay long enough. For many people, the right therapist and enough time produce understanding without producing change. Understanding is real. Understanding isn’t the same as change.
You can know everything about why you’re stuck and stay stuck.
I’ve been in therapy for years and nothing changes. And you’re not sure if you’re getting better. → I’ve been in therapy for years and nothing changes
I don’t know what to talk about in therapy. And you’ve been making things up. → I don’t know what to talk about in therapy
I’m afraid to start therapy. And the fear is its own thing. → I’m afraid to start therapy
My therapist quit on me. And you don’t know what to do with that. → My therapist quit on me
I’m therapy-shopping and can’t find the right one. And you’ve been at this for a while. → I’m therapy-shopping and can’t find the right one
CBT didn’t work for me. And you’re not sure what to try next. → CBT didn’t work for me
Educational, not diagnostic. Not a substitute for clinical assessment.
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The standard therapy model assumes that talking about the problem produces change. For some people it does. For many it doesn’t, because the talking-about is what they’ve been doing in their own head for years, and adding a therapist to the conversation doesn’t change the structure of the talking.
The talking is part of why nothing has been changing.
Strategic therapy stops the part of the work that has been about the problem and starts the part that changes it. We focus on what you do in the days between sessions, with targeted assignments that interrupt the pattern at its operational points. The change shows up in your life, which is where the problem has been living all along.
Therapy becomes useful again because the room becomes a planning surface and the week becomes the work.
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