What makes us different, makes us better.
Outstanding therapists need the basics: education, training, self-awareness, compassion, experience, intelligence, authenticity. If we mastered these, we would be miles ahead of everyone else. But the basics are always a work in progress. There is no mastery, only ongoing and deliberate effort.
Beyond the basics, there are two things that make us different:
- we are constantly developing our unique approaches to this work and collaborating to provide better help (we are all different here—and those differences in our treatment philosophies and training help us do better work as a group)
- we continually obtain honest feedback from our clients about whether their therapy sessions are optimal, and whether desired change is really happening over time, so we can make real changes in our approach to treatment.
This attention to maximizing the value of therapy for each of our clients and making deliberate changes based on feedback (including trying a different therapist or something other than therapy) is what makes us so different. We don’t assume that all of our training, experience, and expertise are making a difference for you. We are checking and asking, and we challenge ourselves to do better therapy, to learn our craft more deeply, and to offer a better outcome than you expect.