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Big picture and detail in a collaborative journey

My approach to therapy

I aim to catalise my client’s process towards flexibility, serenity, and fulfilment. I do this collaboratively, exploring their feelings, beliefs, journey, and goals, with a view to expand choice and growthful experiences. Our collaboration manifests by setting realistic expectations as we define goals together; wandering and wondering in a process where we are both explorers; respecting their pace and the territories they might (or not) wish to tread at certain times; exploring past and present interactions, including ours; recurrently checking whether I understood them and how they experience “us”; regularly reviewing our work and preparing its ending. This work takes time and patience and is often not linear. Psychotherapy is a gentle, albeit challenging, incremental, and far-sighted process. Our brains need healing interventions and time to form new adaptative connections. Supported exploration of what is and could be, can be transformative.

Big picture and detail in a collaborative journey

© Rita Matos Dias

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