What Therapists Fight About (chapter 2)
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 16 May 2025
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May 16, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, Deserving listeners, today's episode is part two in which I review what therapists fight about. |
| 0:07.1 | This is based on a post on the therapist subreddit by Reb Sosaurus. |
| 0:13.3 | They posted a meme from Facebook that had a bunch of topics that would get therapists fighting amongst themselves. |
| 0:22.4 | And I want to start today's part two with the topic of self-disclosure. |
| 0:28.0 | That's one of the items on this meme that therapist will fight about. |
| 0:32.0 | And yeah, therapists do fight about this. |
| 0:33.8 | But the general consensus I find to be more powerful than the other side. So it's sometimes |
| 0:44.4 | helpful when reviewing these items, for me anyway, to break it up into four categories with |
| 0:50.3 | right and wrongheadedness of the pro side and right and wrongheadedness of the anti-side. |
| 0:56.9 | So if we start with the right-headedness side of the self-disclosure, pro-sult |
| 1:01.7 | self-disclosure, which, by the way, is my position, is that research, like abundant research |
| 1:08.5 | going back decades, shows that appropriate and effective self-disclosure does enhance outcomes among clients in general. |
| 1:19.3 | And as long as you follow the three elements of effective self-disclosure, then generally speaking, it will not only be okay, but it will actually |
| 1:30.1 | improve outcomes across the board, regardless of what you're working with a client about. |
| 1:36.2 | And the three elements are, off the top of my head, are keeping it as brief as possible, |
| 1:41.8 | right? |
| 1:42.4 | You don't want to take up the whole session. |
| 1:45.3 | Also making sure that what you're self-disclosing about is related to the topic at hand, |
| 1:51.7 | that you're doing it in the service of the treatment plan. |
| 1:55.4 | You're doing it in the service of the client instead of just randomly self-disclosing. |
| 2:00.3 | The third element is that you have processed this part of your own personal life |
| 2:07.0 | sufficiently so that it doesn't come out in a very busted up way that distracts the therapy |
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