Posted by peddidle on March 24, 2007, at 13:47:49
In reply to what type of therapy are you all in?, posted by gazo on March 21, 2007, at 11:57:42
I haven't had a chance to go through all the replies yet, so I hope I'm not randomly jumping in here.
Maybe you guys could help me figure out what kind of therapy I'm in.
I had been thinking that it was eclectic, because my T is really good about (and has said she's perfectly capable of, and doesn't mind) changing her usual ways to suit what I need. But recently, I've been thinking that it's mostly cognitive therapy.
She asks a lot of open-ended questions, but I don't talk a lot, so those don't usually work. To get me to talk, she has to ask yes/no, or single word answer questions. A lot of times, she won't switch to those types of questions, and she'll just wait in silence for me to regain eye-contact with her.
Sometimes she also changes the subject to something completely irrelevant that we both like to talk about, like celebrity gossip. I'm sure she does this just to get me to talk.
Often, she'll give me "homework." Usually just "I want you to think about this..." type of stuff, but once or twice she actually wanted me to make lists of things.
I've also thought that maybe she's Adlerian, because I always feel like I'm talking to a friend, rather than a doctor.
So....what type of therapy is this?
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