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he’s also the director of family counseling at Daystar, a center for kids in Nashville. He’s the author of six books and an accomplished public speaker,

he’s also the director of family counseling at Daystar, a center for kids in Nashville. He’s the author of six books and an accomplished public speaker,

Study after study shows that the most important factor in the success of your treatment is your relationship with the therapist, your experience of “feeling felt.” This matters more than the therapist’s training, the kind of therapy they do, or what type of problem you have.

Credentials and money are not antidotes to the lingering effects of childhood maltreatment.

Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT)

Sullivan believed that our struggles were interactional (meaning “relational”). He went so far as to say, “It’s the mark of a senior clinician that he or she is the same person in their living room that they are in their office.” We can’t teach patients to be relational if we aren’t relational with them.