Counseling is a relationship. I’m there and so are you. We talk. It is through this discussion process that change takes place. Some theorists say that change happens through the relationship. How?
We strive to create healthy emotional interchanges in the office setting, and we respectfully identify the unmet developmental needs that might cause our patient to stumble in co-creating this healthy dialogue.
Sidney Love stated (1991) that “the goal of modern analytic family therapy is the emotional maturation of all members of the family” and that emotional education is a vital aspect of psychotherapy. She viewed personality as actually being formed through emotional interchanges.
I like Virginia Goldner’s statement that marriage counseling “requires ongoing, unwavering acts of containment and recognition…” (for ref., see other blog entry…)
If we can create healthy emotional interchanges in the psychotherapy office, and have you take that home to your family, “what a wonderful world it would be.”