Brett Steenbarger – MD Update

FRONT Mental Wellness

How to Ask for Help If You’re a Perfectionist

February 1, 2021February 17, 2021 Jan Anderson, PSYD, LPCC ability of therapy, actionable change, airline captain, B., big predictor, book coach, book therapist, book-writing, book-writing phobia, bout of profound confusion, Brett Steenbarger, brief psychotherapy, client, client-counselor, client-counselor relationship, confrontational, counsel, divorce, Dr. John Gottman, end of discussion, entrepreneurial mode, environment of hope, ever-expanding morass, exhilarate high, exhilarate high of productivity, expert Dr. John Gottman, exploration of new pattern, face-saving way, favorite face-saving way, focused change effort, good therapist, hand-on-the-doorknob, hand-on-the-doorknob comment, increased empathy, increased expertise, intensive one-on-one therapy, new pattern, old pattern of thought, one-and-done marriage therapy session, one-on-one therapy, ongoing reinforcement, perfectionist, perfectionist tendency, perfectionistic professional, period of absolute clarity, personal counsel experience, personal turn point, plenty personal, powerful emotional experience, pre-marital, pre-marital counsel, professional development, profound confusion, rehearsal of the new pattern, relationship go, science of brief psychotherapy, starter marriage, strength of the client-counselor relationship, stuckness, therapeutic alliance, therapist, therapist 's help, therapy, tortured-reasoning, tricky part, troublesome period, true perfectionist, unhappy couple, use of a supportive relationship, well-meaning adage

I’m writing a book. There, I’ve said it. So almost five years into the process, I guess it’s actually going

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Mental Wellness

The Easiest Way to Change Something About Yourself

March 1, 2018May 8, 2018 Jan Anderson, PsyD, LPPC ability of therapy, Brent Roberts, Brett Steenbarger, brief approach, brief course of therapy, brief psychotherapy, colleague, curveballs, dilemma, easy way, emerge branch of psychology, environment of hope, exploration of new pattern, feel fake, focused change effort, good boundary, good news, major evidence-based, mental wellness, meta-analysis, motivational talk, new pattern, old pattern of thought, ongoing reinforcement, ordinary people deal, ordinary problem, powerful emotional experience, practice of brief approach, profound change, psychotherapy, rehearsal of the new pattern, resolution of a dilemma, science of brief psychotherapy, specific type of therapy, Steenbarger, temporary behavior change, therapy, trade psychology, trio of factor, unavoidable curveballs, unavoidable curveballs of life, use of a supportive relationship

Dilemmas are different from ordinary problems. Problems have solutions, while dilemmas are more about resolution than solution. Consider the following

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