Understanding Male Language, Attitudes, and Needs
Holly Sweet • 12/9/2018
By Holly Sweet - My early experience with male clients soon taught me that working with men was going to present challenges different from those of working with women. From many years of attention to men's language, attitudes, and needs, I've developed a specific approach to working with male clients.
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Bridging the Gender Gap in the Consulting Room
Holly Sweet • 8/20/2015
When I started my clinical training, I wondered about the impact of men's discomfort with emotional expression (and women's ignorance of this discomfort) on how male clients experienced therapy with female therapists. From many years of attention to men's language, attitudes, and needs, I've developed a specific approach to working with male clients. For female clinicians, one of the side benefits of working with men is that it can help us understand the other men in our own lives. Both genders win when we learn more about men.
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Therapy across the gender divide
Holly Sweet • 5/1/2010
Gender shapes relationship from the very first moment therapist meets client, especially when the client is male and the therapist is female.
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