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ME and WE in Couple Therapy
When you expand your therapy practice to include couples work, there’s a commonly overlooked shift to be made, and this shift is more complex than it sounds. Your focus and the way you practice changes with the expansion to couples work. It’s exciting, you talk to colleagues, read articles, go to workshops and enjoy getting your office space ready.
You successfully managed the transition from student to therapist and mastered the therapeutic relationship with individual clients. You’re enjoying that work and you’re good at it, but there’s a demand for couples work. So it made sense for you to expand. Couples book and you’re delighted, but when your efforts to connect with one partner alienates the other one, you don’t understand why that’s happening. The distress in session is palpable, the dynamic between partners is intense and you wonder if you are ready to do couples work.
This is the “more complex than you realized” stuff that happens when you unknowingly overlook the shift to a relational focus. The shift from ME to WE seems obvious in theory, so obvious in fact, that it’s often dismissed in practice. Many therapists, maybe you too…started working with couples thinking they’ve made the shift to WE, but they’re still focused on what’s happening within the individual (ME) when they should be focusing on what’s happening between the partners (WE). If you are realizing you overlooked the shift to WE, don’t worry, it will be okay. I wrote this article for therapists just like you, because overlooking this shift IS so common, just keep reading.
This article unpacks the not so obvious shift to a relational focus. When you read the whole article and make the suggested changes, you will be able to make the shift to WE and you’ll be in a better position to help the couples you meet.
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