Episode 9- Attachment Messages

Evan, Melissa, and Eli explore the way in which attachment styles impact peoples’ messages, perceived messages, and counselors’ countertransference. This conversation also generated discussions related to:

• Career Counseling: benefits of personifying a job (helps identify abuse)
• Clinical Directors: being the log in a wood splitter
• Communication: how do people express needs & wishes, how effective are their messages
• Attachment Styles . . . what am I seeing, is client anxious/avoidant or adhering to cultural norms & core values regarding conflict
• Imagine seeing & comparing a client through the lenses of individual, couple, and family therapy; what are consistencies and variations in a person’s presentation
• Attend to client . . . not other players in a client’s story
• Substance Use/Abuse as a “shiny object” … what are we missing if we focus exclusively on substance use

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