Hi and welcome to finding your way through therapy. I am your host, Steve Bissan. I'm an author and mental health counselor. Are you curious about therapy? Do you feel there is a lot of mystery about therapy? Do you wonder what your therapist is doing and why? The goal of this podcast is to make therapy and psychology accessible to all by using

real language and straight to the point discussions.

This podcast wants to remind you to take care of your mental health, just like you would

your physical health.

Therapy should not be intimidating.

It should be a great way to better health.

I will demystify what happens in counseling, discuss topics related to mental health,

and discussions you can have with your therapies. I also want to introduce psychology in everyday life,

as I feel most of our lives are enmeshed in psychology. I want to introduce the subtle and not so

subtle way psychology plays a factor in our lives. It will be my own mix of thoughts as well as

special guests. So join me on this discovery of therapy and psychology.

Hi everyone and welcome to episode seven. If you haven't had a chance, I hope you listen to episode

six. Episode six is where I discuss what first happens when you sit down.

I hope that it's helpful to you. But how I like to think about a session and how I like to

think about this podcast is the first session is also where insurance companies want us to give

a diagnosis. I'm not a huge fan of diagnosis. I'll tell you why. But really what I thought

was important is that a lot of people ask me about what's my diagnosis and or why is it this

diagnosis and what it looks like and why do you not put a lot of weight onto diagnosing? So if you're from the research community,

I hope you listen to this. And I really do hope that insurance companies also listen to this.

Because I think that there are a few good points in here. And I think that if you're a client

and you're like, well, I was told that I have blank. First of all, we need to discuss that.

But at the end of the day, we need to figure out how a diagnosis is not what you should

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