When Your Client Won't Commit to Change
How to Accept Opposition and Still Get Results
By David Johnson - In my several decades of practice, one skill that’s served me well in this field is my ability to leave work at the office. But every once in a while, I see clients whose situation intrigues, moves, or confounds me in a way that keeps them in my thoughts in between sessions, even if I’m often not sure what it is about them that continues to haunt me. Such was the case with Matthew.
Daily Blog
Attempting Connection with the Resistant Client
Can You Help a Client Want to Change?
In my several decades of practice, one skill that’s served me well in this field is my ability to leave work at the office. But every once in a while, I see clients whose situation intrigues, moves, or confounds me in a way that keeps them in my thoughts in between sessions.
Daily Blog
Case Study
Whose Therapy Is It Anyway? When Your Client Is Uncommitted to Change
When we find ourselves haunted by a particular case, it may mean that we’re more invested in the client making changes than the client is himself.
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When Your Client Won't Commit to Change
How to Accept Opposition and Still Get Results
By David Johnson - In my several decades of practice, one skill that’s served me well in this field is my ability to leave work at the office. But every once in a while, I see clients whose situation intrigues, moves, or confounds me in a way that keeps them in my thoughts in between sessions, even if I’m often not sure what it is about them that continues to haunt me. Such was the case with Matthew.
Daily Blog
Attempting Connection with the Resistant Client
Can You Help a Client Want to Change?
In my several decades of practice, one skill that’s served me well in this field is my ability to leave work at the office. But every once in a while, I see clients whose situation intrigues, moves, or confounds me in a way that keeps them in my thoughts in between sessions.
Daily Blog
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Case Study
Whose Therapy Is It Anyway? When Your Client Is Uncommitted to Change
When we find ourselves haunted by a particular case, it may mean that we’re more invested in the client making changes than the client is himself.
Magazine Article
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David Johnson, L.M.F.T., L.M.S.W., is a therapist at the McKenzie Medical Center in Tennessee. He's written a series of fiction books about overcoming poverty and abuse: Tucker's Way; For Tucker; An Unexpected Frost; and April's Rain.
