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Advice on Selecting a Therapist
If "you're expecting to go and pay up to a hundred and fifty, two
hundred bucks an hour for someone to say, 'Gee, John, that's too bad,'
you're going to waste your time and money.
"And my concern is that you may
actually find somebody who will do that for you — and it will get you
no place except sadder and poorer....
"A therapist doesn't have to be
like you. You don't even have to like your therapist. And your therapist doesn't have to like you
either. A therapist just holds the mirror up for you. They're only a
tool....
"You want somebody who has the intellectual power, and the heart, and the
courage to say, 'What do you want from me? Do you want anti-depressants? Do
you want to talk about your parents? How do you make your life work for you?
"Because I, as a therapist, cannot undo anything that's happened to
you. I may not even be able to understand it — nor is that necessary.
Because my goal is not to sympathize with you, but to help you ... to get
you out of this mess....
"Just find somebody who has the courage to stand up to you and say,
'Enough! What do you want? Let's work."
— Dr. Joy Browne
The
Dr. Joy Browne Show,
AM 800 CKLW,
April 8, 2002 |
