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Mar 17, 2024 · Therapists work diligently to foster trust by demonstrating empathy, respect, and understanding towards their clients. Through active listening, validation of feelings, and transparent communication, therapists aim to create a space where clients feel heard and valued.
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The easiest way to think of the problem is to focus on your therapist, but there's a problem with this view of things. Consider: when you go to the zoo and look at the lions, the elephants, or the gorillas, how safe do you feel? Most people certainly feel safe enough at least to observe these large, powerful, potentially very dangerous animals from...
Initially your therapist is a stranger to you. Many clients bring a particular sort of distrust to therapy. There is a fundamental difference between trauma-producing situations involving, say natural forces, or accidents with machines or automobiles, and that involving people. In the first case, being in a small room with another person is not lik...
Active trauma memory leads us to view any new situation with wariness, with a negativity bias. The problem here is a kind of general negativity which arises in people whose lives are a fairly constant struggle. One sees this in people who are over-worked, chronically fatigued, in chronic pain, or are experiencing posttraumatic stress. The whole wor...
Finally, due to your previous experience, even if your therapy situation is very clearly safe, you may be unable to recognize this, having little or no previous experience with safe situations. This is a special case of the general problem of not recognizing normal because your situation has never beennormal. Consider: were the people you grew up w...
In general, you will have a lot to learn, coming to therapy with active trauma memory. Some of it you won't initially even be aware that you needto learn! Learning IS possible, however. Many others have done it, and you can too. You will simply need persistence and patience, for this is a long-distance journey. You begin with a lot of handicaps. Th...
Sep 15, 2022 · Published: September 15, 2022. Have you ever felt sure that you couldn’t trust someone, even if they had done nothing to cause you to doubt them? Trust issues can cause suspicion, anxiety, and doubt, and can be very damaging to romantic, personal, and professional relationships.
Apr 9, 2023 · Key points. Clients' trust in the process of therapy—and in their therapists—underlies the healing they seek. Being attuned to a client's past trust issues informs the work you do...
How Do I Trust a Therapist If I Can’t Trust Anyone? Dear GoodTherapy.org, I grew up in a dysfunctional family. I know every family is a little dysfunctional, but my parents were a special...
Jun 27, 2012 · Trust in a therapeutic relationship builds when clients feel that their therapist: Will be helpful, guiding them through to resolution of the issues that trouble them, Will keep clients safe...
Feb 20, 2020 · Starting counselling or therapy can be scary and requires you to feel you can trust your therapist with your innermost difficulties. Therapist Victoria Champion explores the value of trusting the process in therapy.
