Thoughts and Musings

We live in an increasingly fast-paced world that puts pressure on us to get results quickly. Psychotherapy, like everything else, has fallen prey to these same pressures, with some treatment modalities attempting to shorten treatment to as little as four to six weeks, but faster may not always mean more effective. Like fast food, fast therapy inevitably loses something in exchange for speed, but in the case of therapy, it’s not just nutrition that gets lost—it’s your complexi

In my time at Antioch University, I had the pleasure of hearing Tim Desmond, author of Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy and The...