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🗓️ 24 July 2025
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0:00.0 | This is the Psychology in Seattle podcast. I'm your host, Dr. Kirk Honda. I am chair of the |
0:05.6 | couple in Femmy Therapy Program at Antioch University Seattle, and I'm also a licensed therapist. |
0:10.5 | Today I thought I would just talk about a article that someone sent me on Huff Poe titled |
0:19.9 | Therapy Myths, Ten Common Misconceptions About Seeing a Therapist, |
0:25.9 | written by Artie Battelle, and I'm just realizing here that it was published in 2012, |
0:34.2 | and since it's 2016, it was published almost four years ago. |
0:42.0 | So it's old, but I'm sure the myths haven't changed that drastically. |
0:47.4 | 2012 wasn't that long ago. |
0:49.7 | I mean, come on. |
0:51.2 | All right, myth number one that they list here. |
0:53.9 | Therapy is like having a paid friend. |
0:57.1 | This is apparently a myth. Yes, I would say that is a myth. Having said that, it really depends on |
1:03.6 | what you mean by friend, right? Certainly a therapist can feel like a friend, and certainly |
1:09.8 | therapists and clients can be friendly but yeah it's |
1:15.1 | much different than a paid friend um because the therapist is a clinician and the relationship is |
1:24.9 | designed when it's going well to be a, for the most part, a one-directional |
1:30.4 | relationship in that the client sits down, talks about their life and the therapist is there |
1:37.2 | to help. The therapist does not walk into the room hoping to get help from the client. |
1:43.3 | The therapist might self-disclose about his or her life, |
1:47.6 | but only does so in the furthering and the assistance of the treatment of the client. |
1:55.2 | Now, this can be very varied. For some therapists, they're quite informal with their clients. And with other therapists, |
2:04.0 | they're quite formal. So, for instance, one therapist might treat all their clients very formally. |
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