In the mid 1960s, a philosophy student named Eugene Gendlin started asking some hard questions about the process of psychotherapy: “Why doesn’t therapy succeed more often?… When it does succeed, what is it that those patients and therapists do? What is it that the majority fail to do?”
I have increasingly been introducing my clients to this powerful process. When clients, and myself, use this approach we get an immediate sense of distance, a decrease in emotionality, and an increase in understanding and self-compassion. Clients can easily integrate this approach into their day to day dealings with powerful emotions, obessive thoughts, and all matter of self-doubt. There is a good deal of information on line and some wonderful tutorials by Anne Weiser Cornell.
See on northvancouvertherapy.com
