Top Highlights

• Openness, directness, transparency, and honesty are expected from you in counseling. Shouldn’t you also expect such openness in return?
• Few people are intelligent enough to recognize the need to learn new and better psychological skills. Even fewer are willing to unlearn old psychological skills and to practice news ones until proficient. But those who do can reach higher than those who do not. Most are more than happy with symptom relief, which is mainly what you get with the medi...
• Sometimes, you find a great counselor who works on skills and problems simultaneously. But don’t expect this ideal. However, it often happens that while working on skill development first, you are also working on your problems. A favorite strategy of the author is to ask for simple problems to learn and practice the skills with before moving on to ...
• Insist on learning new skills before facing problems you have already failed dealing with using your current skills. This is your right and it only makes sense.
• People have a right to know what their counselor or therapist thinks they are doing to help them.