Posted by twinleaf on January 1, 2008, at 23:08:00
In reply to Re: keeping us in mind... » twinleaf, posted by rskontos on January 1, 2008, at 19:28:21
It's so good to hear that you have made such a wonderful and immediate connection with your new therapist! It seems almost miraculous that you found him, and that you and he knew right away that he could help you. We can't ever know, I guess, what we mean to our therapists, but I can give another quote from my therapist's book on the subject. He describes the therapist's role this way: "The therapist offers a real relationship, yet goes about the business of being a therapist- of being simultaneously active and reflective, involved and detached, participating and observing, passionate and rational, close and distant- in a harmonious dialectic". There! That's all there is to it!
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