No Pain No Gain brain for therapist ideas maxims pact pair bonding secure functioning stan tatkin stance therapy Dec 11, 2013

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
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Therapy is only useful for changing people who are experiencing sufficient distress. This is not to say that education, consultation, or brief counseling will have no effect. People often benefit from couple counseling for premarital or other short-term...

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Waiting for Inspiration approach for therapists interventions stan tatkin therapy Dec 30, 2012

by Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT,
stantatkin.com

Inspiration should be the guiding incentive for doing interventions, not pressure. Many therapists, including experienced ones, act on pressure rather than from a creative place. Pressure can come in various forms: pressure from the patient, pressure from...

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