Jeff Levy, LCSW
Mental Health, Relationships, Trauma, Identity
1/7/2019 0 Comments The Weekly ReportJeff 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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Jeff Levy, LCSW (originally posted on Branching Out: The Live Oak Blog, January 2014) Sometimes we seek therapy because we are trying to understand and manage hurts that have accumulated over the years or even recent hurts that feel powerful and pervasive. Of course it’s also true that we may seek therapy for hurts we have caused others in the distant past, recent past, or in the present. Whether we have been hurt, have caused hurt, or are dealing with both, we may hold in our hearts the wish for an apology or the desire to be forgiven.
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