American Board of Clinical Social Work
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Most forms of psychotherapy require that the therapist perform a “delicate balancing act” between competing forces. In Neurodynamic Couples Therapy, there are primarily three areas in which the delicate balancing of the couples therapist is required for therapeutic success.
Social Work Blog
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
I’m a mere therapist, but if I could share one piece of life advice with anyone, it would be this: Take an improv class. And, improv teachers and therapists cultivate an environment of support, empathy, validation, and a space to improve skills. Both disciplines aim for presence of mind and spirit.
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American Board of Clinical Social Work
MARCH 14, 2024
In Neurodynamic Couples Therapy, exploring feelings is the pathway to metabolizing and integrating them into a cohesive sense of self and relationships and creating a bond of empathy and understanding between partners. The primary technique we use to explore feelings is what we call “following threads.”
American Board of Clinical Social Work
JULY 9, 2023
In my opinion, Dan Wile (1993, 2021) was one of the most brilliant and effective couple therapists to ever live. Robert Stolorow and George Atwood (2018) have written about emotional dwelling as an important expansion of our understanding of empathy. pejorative word coming up) Stupid.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The competent therapist who is utilizing these mechanisms must be attuned to material that triggers their own right-brain generated focus and attention. Something about the way he says “having to wait” creates a feeling within the therapist that something important has been said. Does it seem that they care about your waiting?
American Board of Clinical Social Work
NOVEMBER 7, 2021
Too often couple conflicts make therapists anxious, and they prematurely shut down the most fertile ground for empathy and understanding. This should be an end-goal for the work; not the first reaction from the therapist. But this isn’t often the case, unless the therapist is working in a domestic violence setting.
American Board of Clinical Social Work
FEBRUARY 12, 2023
The therapist in this configuration can feel tremendously pulled toward identified patients, through either annoyance or sympathy. The skilled therapist must work to develop a deeper–and equally balanced–understanding and empathy for both partners’ contributions to their repetitive conflicts.
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