Why Doesn’t Therapy Work? 3 Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental-Health Professionals

“This is NOT working!” Mrs. Y exclaimed in an exasperated manner. It had been barely 20 minutes into her session, her first session with me, and her very first therapy session in her life, before she unleashed her wrath on me. I could not understand anything about Mrs. Y from her dramatic monologue aside fromContinue reading “Why Doesn’t Therapy Work? 3 Common Misperceptions about Mental Health and Mental-Health Professionals”

Can Therapists “have fun” in Sessions with their Clients?

When I tell some of my much-more experienced and older professional colleagues about the fact that I actually enjoy – and most of the time even dare to have fun in – my psychotherapy/counselling sessions, they’d look at me as if I just told them that COVID-19 is about freedom of choice. “How many yearsContinue reading “Can Therapists “have fun” in Sessions with their Clients?”