I've recently been exploring therapy for my productivity issues - three sessions with two different therapists, and have been disappointed and surprised to find that the sessions are significantly less effective than basic techniques many of my friends use to help each other.
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The issues with the therapists (that aren't issues in my community): 1. not generative enough - they aren't asking questions that i haven't already asked myself
2. stuck in old paradigms/inflexible, unable to see and adjust to what I need
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A lot of this stuff is 'in the water' - my community has sort of a generalized intuitive grasp about how to debug stuff. Some are doing effective self-training; did a 40 min session with me and it was more useful than my 3 hours of therapy combined
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It's actually hard for me to pinpoint? One example that comes to mind is something like generally high precision - 'where is that in your body' or spending a lot of time finding exactly the right word.
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What you can expect from three sessions depends on the style of therapy. CBT: might get somewhere, I gather--never done it--to, say, desensitize a phobia. Psychodynamic therapy, three sessions isn't enough to know if you've got the right therapist. Your objectives?
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The ones I saw were mindfulness based and one was really into NARM, which I don't know very much about. My objectives are to reduce an anxiety block I sometimes have when trying to complete tasks such as answering emails or writing a book.
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In my experience, a therapist is a good soundboard for me. I need someone not connected to my life at all to help put things in perspective.
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