What works in therapy?
When I graduated as a psychotherapist in 1990 I had been taught a lot of things that were never much use in therapy – watching out for ‘transference issues’ was one of them. I had also not been taught a lot of things that I really needed to know, but only found out later. So like most therapists I had to improvise in addition to taking a lot more add-on courses. But now I have been doing it for 23 years I have learnt a few things I am going to share with you.
Here is my list of seven things that matter in therapy.