Author: gclendinnen

One of the hardest things about being a therapist is worrying about questions that have no clear answer. Do I properly understand what my client needs?  Would a different approach be more effective? Should I have comforted them when they were upset more quickly? Or was letting them sit in that distress a moment longer […]

The insights from therapy my clients find most useful generally occur spontaneously. They come from conversations where both of us were struggling with a question that we didn’t know the answer to. Looking back on these moments it’s often unclear who even came up with the insight. They said something, I said something back, and […]

I started my own practice in January last year. For the first time I was responsible for everything about my work. What sorts of clients I saw, how often I saw them, the interventions I used. While this is what I wanted, part of me wondered if I was ready for all this clinical responsibility. […]