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How do you get unstuck in therapy?
10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck
- Align, Lift, and Lead.
- Visualize the Desired Response.
- Identify Inspiring Goals.
- Locate the Root of an Emotional Conflict.
- Reverse Traumatic Memories.
- Change Beliefs with Imagery and Metaphor.
- Conjure Up Compelling Stories.
- Prime with Play and Humor.
Can therapy keep you stuck?
If your therapy has become focused on changing or controlling someone else, or a situation that is beyond your control, your “stuck-ness” may continue until you refocus on the things you do have some control over; namely, your inner reactions to outer realities.
Why do therapists get stuck?
These should come only as a result of therapists thoroughly evaluating their contribution to the stuckness. After working with a client for a significant amount of time, it’s common to feel stuck. Typically, this is a result of the client reaching initial goals and both therapist and client needing clarity on how to move forward.
How do you deal with the feeling of stuckness in therapy?
1. Talk about it with your therapist! Mention what you’re feeling. Notice the thoughts that go with the feeling of stuckness. Work with the present moment. That means that, when you sit down with your therapist, let yourself notice what happens right then. Do you start to tense up and get ready to tell lots of stories?
Do clients’ feelings matter in therapy?
Clients’ feelings are useful signals offering you instant feedback about the effectiveness of therapy, but your interventions themselves need to be directed elsewhere. One woman I saw had been in therapy for more than a year exploring her unhappiness with nearly every aspect of her life.
What happens when therapy goes wrong?
When therapy goes wrong, it’s typically because we’ve entered our clients’ negativity trances with them, joining them in their myopic misery. In this mutually reinforcing state, neither client nor therapist can see beyond the small, cramped space of the stalled interaction.