7. Change Is an Inside Job!
My great mentor, Dr. Milton Erickson, taught ways to help generate change through interrupting peoples’ Attempted Solutions. This allowed for shifting unwanted patterns to create new and better choices.
22. The General Cause of People's Problems and How We Get Stuck in Them
When a new client comes in to see me for their first session, I ask what problems bring them to therapy and how they hope to benefit from counseling. They share their problems and often state that their goal for counseling is to know why they are the way they are.
24. Creating Success in Our Primary Relationships
A healthy relationship is based on loving and accepting ourselves and our partner fully and unconditionally. It helps both people in the partnership become more and better than they were without their significant other. Joy and happiness are part of a healthy relationship.