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Back in 1968, I was fortunate enough to go to a dance at a neighboring high school where a newly popular band had been hired to play. The band probably contracted for the date before they released what turned out to be their most famous and successful song. So we
One of the more enjoyable and productive therapeutic collaborations occurs when we find a useful, accurate developmental context for how your family operates (or operated.) It can be called “family-of-origin” work*, but that has many schools of thought and various theoreticians and practitioners. Even though I’m touching on vast subject
Some years back, near the end of most appointments, I began to ask my clients, “Was today’s appointment helpful?” Asking this question was not an original idea of mine. I was at the time reading professional literature about brief or short term therapy, a model in which this question is practically
The current professional education series on cultural diversity in psychotherapy presented by my state professional organization, the Washington State Society for Clinical Social Work, (wsscsw.org) has been thought provoking. This past Autumn, the lead event in the series was a day-long workshop in Seattle led by Columbia University Professor Derald
The title of this post derives from a well-worn and somewhat corny phrase. Yet it captures a simple overall view about my experience in Seattle working with people involved in “critical incidents” (for background on that term, you can view my site’s critical incident webpage which describes this part of
