The Reflective Eclectic
I’ve written hundreds of articles on mental health and relationships. My latest are published in Substack, in a weekly newsletter, The Reflective Eclectic.
How to Help a Person Grow
A therapist not trained in Person-Centered Therapy is like a musician who never learned his scales, basic skills for his profession. But, going to a therapist who only practices Person-Centered Therapy is like listening to a musician practicing scales. It gets pretty tedious and you wonder if it’ll ever go anywhere. Carl Rogers, who developed…
How to Escape the Identity Trap
My client was a young, black woman, anxious about fitting in to her new job, and worried that she’d never find anyone to love, with so few eligible black men available. I wondered why she was seeing me. I am a licensed counselor, but I am not, nor have I ever been a black woman.…
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