Everything You Need to Know About Therapy

Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson

Being Well

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement, Mental Health

4.8 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2024

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

In this mega-episode, clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson explore everything you need to know about therapy. They share how you can get more from therapy, finding the approach that’s right for you, and some perspectives on why therapy is so expensive. They then run through the five major schools of Western psychotherapy before discussing a few alternative modalities. You’ll learn how long to stick with a therapist before looking for alternatives, questions to ask a prospective therapist, and how to maximize your results. You can watch this episode on YouTube. Key Topics: 0:00: Introduction 1:40: The biggest factors that contribute to therapy going well 7:25: Finding the therapeutic modality that works for you 14:00: The cost of therapy, and the problem created by insurance companies 20:35: The five major schools of western psychotherapy 21:20: Psychodynamic therapy, and investigating the unconscious 23:20: Behavioral therapy, and variable reinforcement 25:55: Humanistic psychology, and seeing the good in yourself 29:05: Cognitive therapy, why insurance companies like CBT, and exploring our beliefs 36:15: Mindfulness-based therapies, and being with our experiences 41:15: Family systems therapy, social justice, somatic therapy, and non-Western thinking 46:20: The differences (and similarities) between therapy and coaching 52:40: How long therapy should take, and how to evaluate if it’s working 1:02:15: The role of client motivation 1:04:55: Questions to ask a prospective therapist 1:10:15: The importance of the therapist’s engagement 1:12:50: Common qualities Rick found challenging with past clients 1:16:05: The importance of internalizing change, and recognizing what’s really shifting 1:21:20: Recap Forrest is now writing on Substack, check out his work there. Support the Podcast: We're now on Patreon! If you'd like to support the podcast, follow this link. Sponsors Join over a million people using BetterHelp, the world’s largest online counseling platform. Visit betterhelp.com/beingwell for 10% off your first month! If you’re navigating something messy, call The Dr. John Delony Show. Dr. John shares practical advice on how to connect with people, face depression, overcome anxiety, and learn what it means to be well. Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Transform your health with the ZOE Science & Nutrition podcast. Find it wherever you listen to podcasts. OneSkin focuses on delivering more than superficial results for your skin. Get started today with 15% off using code BEINGWELL at oneskin.co. Connect with the show: Subscribe on iTunes Follow Forrest on YouTube Follow us on Instagram Follow Forrest on Instagram Follow Rick on Facebook Follow Forrest on Facebook Visit Forrest's website

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and
0:05.0	welcome to being well. I'm Forrest Hansen.
0:10.0	If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today.
0:12.0	And if you've listened before, welcome back. If you're new to the podcast, thanks for listening today.
0:12.6	And if you've listened before, welcome back.
0:14.9	We talk about therapy all the time on the podcast
0:18.0	and allude to all of these different kinds of therapeutic approaches.
0:21.3	But it's been years since we actually did a focused episode on getting the most out of therapy.
0:27.0	So today we're going to be exploring the many different approaches, how to know if a particular therapist
0:31.6	is right for you, and what you need to know to get everything you can out of this process. For some people that's going to mean working with a clinical psychologist, for others, it might mean working with a therapist, a counselor, or a coach and for many
0:45.1	it might me just listening to a podcast like this one which is great deal.
0:48.6	I'm really looking forward to talking about all of this today and my guest for this episode is as usual Dr Rick Hansen
0:55.2	who has been doing this for over 35 years has had hundreds of people walk into his office
1:00.3	how are you doing today dad? I'm thoroughly psyched for this conversation. And in your categories of people who can have therapeutic conversations with others, I would like to add psychiatrists and sometimes physicians
1:16.0	in general. I'm looking forward to both attending to the more orthodox frame of people with a license as a therapist as well as broadening
1:26.8	it out to a larger consideration of what helps interactions be therapeutic and in particular what helps what we do inside our own being,
1:37.2	inside our own minds to have therapeutic benefits for us.
1:41.1	I just want to start by asking you, based on all of the time that you've worked with people.
1:46.0	What do you think are some of the biggest factors that lead to a course of therapy inside of that frame? Maybe these other frames that you're speaking to as well, but particularly a course of therapy, going really well for somebody.
1:58.0	There's been a lot of research about this. I'll refer somewhat to that research and also to my me search, my own experience with people.
2:09.3	First off I want to definitely name the issue that the person brings matters. If a person is walking in the
2:15.9	door with complex PTSD based on multiple traumatic experiences often when
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