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Counseling
As a patient or client, most of what happens in therapy depends on you. You
are hiring your therapist to help you change things in your life.
- It is important to be completely
honest with your therapist. He or she can't help you if you withhold
important information.
- Take some time after the session
to review what was said and to think about how to act on it. A therapy
session usually lasts under an hour, but you have many more hours in the
week to follow-up on what was said.
- Be sure to do any homework that
you were asked to do. Not all therapists assign tasks to do between
sessions, but when they are assigned they are important to the process.
- Pay attention to your emotions
between sessions. Let your therapist about any patterns that you notice,
especially anything out of the ordinary.
- Write things down and take them
to the session if you need to.
Psychotherapy is a partnership. It will be more effective if you are an
active partner. (Adapted from About.com)
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