Category: Focusing

Focusing and the Therapist’s Use of Self: Presence and Embodiment in Client Sessions – Ann Weiser Cornell

Ann Weiser Cornell

We know how important it is to be present for our clients. But so much can get in the way – our feelings about how our clients are doing, our worries about how we are doing, our stress from trying to be helpful. Wouldn’t it be great if there were a way to be more present with your clients that would also let you be more relaxed as a therapist?

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Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change – Ann Weiser Cornell

Ann Weiser Cornell

Research on client process done by Eugene Gendlin and others at the University of Chicago could give you new tools and fresh insights for your stuck clients. This research studied the clients’ manner of experiencing. Rather than looking at what clients were saying, the researchers looked at how they said it. The remarkable result was that clients who spoke articulately about their problems did not do as well in therapy as those who, in some moments in the session, were in contact with something so freshly and immediately felt that they could not articulate it easily.

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