Welcome!
I am delighted to announce the founding of the Good Practice Institute (http://www.goodpracticeinstitute.com/) for professional psychotherapists. I have always been a staunch believer that good therapists who provide good therapy need good care and good supervision.
Our job as clinicians is to make it possible for our clients to tell us anything. We are to create an environment for reflection and curiosity, with an air of hope and understanding. Is there any doubt at all then, that we therapists need to have such a place of our own?
My work has always focused on the gentle understanding of human problems. Most of us in this field have had our own share of challenges and pain, of progress and practice bearing very difficult feelings.
A wonderful modern analyst I know says that the best thing we can do for ourselves and our clients is to continue to get trained to tolerate all our feelings. And to help people talk.
Saying it all, to someone we trust, who is trained to help us understand, observe and go gently forward is one of the most healing experiences I know of, for clients and for ourselves.
