One client resource area most therapists rarely inquire with their clients about is their significant life experiences that triggered in them exuberant feelings. These are life experiences where clients were experiencing a high level of enthusiasm, joy, passion, awe, a strong sense of wellbeing, inspiration, and feeling like being on top of the world. These […]

Many therapists underestimate their clients’ resourcefulness, creativity, and resilience and make the assumption that client self-generated pretreatment changes are flukes and lack staying power. The fact of the matter is, a growing number of studies and clinical practice experience indicates that clients’ self-generated pretreatment changes and self-healing processes persist well beyond the conclusion of therapy […]

The Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung was the first pioneer to write about and study clients’ meaningful coincidences. While closely listening to his clients’ share their stories about their meaningful coincidences, he discovered that they gained some valuable insight about themselves and their life situations, which can be put to practical use for self-empowerment and change. […]

In our clinical practices, we regularly work with clients plagued by serious self-destructive difficulties, such as self-injury, eating disorders, substance abuse, and problem gambling. Many of these clients had either stopped engaging in their choice self-destructive habits on their own prior to being seen by us, had patterns of going for long stretches of time […]

Often, we get referred adolescents for family counseling services with extensive treatment histories that are either forced to see us by a powerful social control agent representing a larger system like the juvenile justice system or they are being dragged in by their parents to be fixed by us. With each one of these scenarios, […]