User Error- How to Be a Great Client - Jayson Gaddis - 525

Relationship School Podcast

Jayson Gaddis

Relationships, Relationshippodcast, Sex, Relationshipadvice, Society & Culture, Jaysongaddispodcast, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.6 • 981 Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

If you want to get the most out of therapy or coaching, it’s important to know how to be a great client. In this episode, Jayson shares his experience of being a client and breaks down how you can make sure you’re getting the results you want. Is it ever okay not to make progress? Learn how to advocate for yourself, prepare for your sessions, stay accountable to friends and family, and much more in this episode!

Timestamps:

1:40 - Is it okay not to make progress?
4:01 - Jayson's story
8:51 - How to be a good client
15:53 - When to have a frank conversation with your coach or therapist

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0:00.0	Hey, hey, welcome back to the Relationship Coaching School podcast, where we help you become a better coach or therapist.
0:11.2	Yeah, lots of simple practical tools here.
0:14.5	Guests who have been master coaches or therapists in the field for a very long time.
0:23.6	And we're here to help you, right,
0:31.8	become more effective, more efficient. In today's episode, we're going to spin the tables a little bit and talk about the client. Okay. If you are a therapist or coach, you obviously have been a client before, and you might be a client.
0:40.3	So you might be a therapist and a coach, and you might also be a client with a different therapist and coach, obviously, that you're working with for your stuff, right?
0:48.1	Which I highly recommend.
0:51.3	And if you're a client listening to this podcast, I just want to encourage you to take some notes here.
0:59.2	There's not enough talk about what I call user error in coaching or therapy or PEPCAC, right?
1:08.0	Problem between the keyboard and the monitor computer screen, PEPCAC, right? Problem between the keyboard and the monitor, computer screen,
1:14.6	PEPCAC. I think that's such a funny term, which means it's me, right? Okay, so we,
1:22.5	the reason I'm bringing this topic up is because sometimes we hear about friends or we ourselves experience
1:32.4	we're in therapy for quite a long time or coaching and nothing really changes in our life.
1:40.8	If that's true, we have to ask the question, is it user error or coaching therapist error or both?
1:51.9	I think that's an important question to ask, right? Now, is there a place for just, as my mentor, Dwayne Molnar says, which you'll hear from on this podcast,
2:08.3	you know, in long-term therapy, a person can come every week for years and see little to no
2:15.2	change.
2:16.4	And from the outside, it could be easy to judge that
2:18.8	situation as, hey, you know what, nothing's changing. So something needs to change here because
2:23.6	the client isn't, quote, getting better. And that client, Duane reminded me that that client
2:31.8	sometimes is like, look, this isn't about getting better for me.
2:35.7	This is about going to a place where I feel safe and loved once a week for an hour.
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