The Weekly Report

Jeff Levy, LCSW
(originally published on Branching Out: The Live Oak Blog, August 2014)

“I don’t have anything to report,” Joel said to me as we began our session.  This had become our beginning ritual, despite having worked together for almost a year.
 
Joel is not the only client who starts a session like this.  In other instances, I’ll be talking with someone for a few minutes and then, after a brief silence, I’ll hear something like: “Well, I think that’s about it.  There wasn’t much else that happened this week.”  In these instances, I feel like the baton has been tossed to me and it’s my turn to run the next leg of our race toward the end of our hour together.

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