My Psychic Therapist and Other Myths

By Dr. Suzanne LaCombe
Reviewed by: Dr. Tracy Halpen

"I might learn how screwed up I am."

Good counseling is actually the opposite. Good counseling focuses on your strengths and resources.

But more than that, counseling can help you understand that most of our disordered patterns were adopted at times when they served a purpose. This site is devoted to helping you understand this. Without that knowledge we tend to attribute problematic aspects of our character as arising out of a flawed self. Frankly stated, "we didn't get this way for no good reason".

The strength of these patterns is largely underestimated in our driven 'just do it' culture. However, these brain patterns--entrenched as they are in procedural memory--do not lend themselves to easy modification through simply recognizing them and intentionally trying to change them. When you understand how the brain functions you will see that they require a different kind of re-learning.

I look forward to explaining more about this fascinating subject in future articles on the site.

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1. "Therapists can read your mind!"
2. "Counseling is not very scientific."
3. "Therapists have psychic powers and can make me do anything they want."
4. “This is going to take forever.”
5. "I already know what I should be doing to stay healthy. I don't need a therapist to tell me."
6. "I don't need approval from a shrink."
7. "I might find something awful about myself."
8. "I might learn how screwed up I am."
   
9. "It is the therapist's job is to prod you into changing your behaviour."
10. “I don’t feel ready for change.”
11. "Counseling is for losers."
12. “My problems aren’t heavy enough for counseling.”
13. Counseling is NOT the only way.

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