How do you deal with a new patient that says I only can afford five or six sessions can you help me and fix me in five or six sessions?

My answer generally is that it depends upon how much energy that you have. How much energy do you have to put into this? We only have so much energy. You may not have enough energy to get it done in five or six sessions but we can certainly make a really good impact in that time. But it might take 7 to 10 sessions over a period of several months.

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Every human being is striving to meet certain psychological and emotional needs.   These needs or drives can be simplified into common themes.  It is not the search to obtain one or more of these that are problematic, but how people go about doing so. Read the rest of this entry »