Full Description
Through interviews with divorced therapists from diverse cultures, philosophies, and generations, this book explores how a therapist's divorce impacts their work with clients in couples therapy. Interviewees speak of their own experiences with trauma recovery, countertransference, self-disclosure, resilience, and other issues during and after divorce. These experiences are also correlated to previous studies exploring the counseling process and variables that might affect the outcome. Through the stories of other professionals, therapists will gain insight into developing self-awareness and utilizing the person-of-the-therapist model to successfully navigate the impact of their own life crisis as they work with clients. This text will provide enlightenment and courage for divorced or divorcing therapists, as well as any therapist who lives through the experience of managing their own relationship struggles while continuing to lean in and support their clients.
Contents
Introduction 1. Being a Mental Health Professional 2. Our Stories 3. Exploring Previous Views of Divorce; Impact of Our FOO 4. Working on Self-Awareness and Recovery 5. Is My Own "Stuff" Getting in the Way? 6. Do I Have Wisdom to Share? Am I Credible? 7. To Tell or Not to Tell 8. Am I More Likely to Encourage Disconnection 9. Moving Forward
