When prior couples therapy failed, and I am the next therapist, it is a different situation than when someone comes to me for individual therapy after prior individual therapy failed. While many therapists helping individuals have a specific therapeutic orientation (e.g., CBT or psychodynamic), there are few couples therapists who work exclusively in one model.…
Can Therapy Work If Prior Therapy Failed? I recently enjoyed celebrating the successful completion of treatment with several clients for whom prior therapy failed. In this post, I describe what I do differently when a client comes to me after prior therapy failed. I divide this into two types of therapy a client might have…
The Bay Area has concentrated some of the most talented, intelligent, and high-performing people in the world. Often, when people call me for therapy, they are in that high-performing group. They often hesitate in the initial consult because they believe in many of the myths about high-performing people and about therapy. About high-performing people, they…