Episode 2- Fear Factor: Equine Ejaculate or Emotional Intimacy?

How do our client’s cultural beliefs and experiences inform our sessions?  Are we able to hold space for beliefs which do not reflect our own? In this episode, Eli, Melissa, and Evan explore what we love about psychotherapy.  In answering this question, we contemplate the role our clients’ stories and dare we say it, delusions, play in their lives and within the counseling process.  Additionally, Evan shares his experiences with emotional vulnerability in group therapy.

Topics explored in this episode include:

• Beauty of clients’ being the authors of their lives
• Working with delusion as an affect-regulating resource
• Analyzing delusions within the psychodynamic process
• Was Melissa kidnapped by aliens?
• Trusting client’s authenticity
• Picking up on client’s cues while staying present during the counseling process
• Suggestions for allowing group process to occur
• Dreams as a reflection of ourselves
• Housing within clinically-directed treatment
• Mushing sled dogs as a metaphor for group therapy
• Would you consume equine ejaculate rather than express emotional vulnerability in group therapy?
• Racial bias in assessing physical pain and prescribing opiates
• How a lack of counselor self-awareness damages clients

Please join us weekly as Tell Me About Your Mother discusses topics relevant to pursuing excellence in psychotherapy.  Melissa Martin, Eli Branscombe, and Evan Miller are three licensed psychotherapists who have come together for peer supervision and in doing so, created Tell Me About Your Mother so that we can share our passion for psychotherapy with our fellow healers.

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