Therapy Termination, ACOA, and Couple Therapy
Psychology In Seattle Podcast
Kirk Honda
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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00:00 How important are goodbyes?
12:35 ACOA & butler syndrome fallibility
29:34 How do you know if a family is ready for couples therapy?
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March 19, 2025
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| 0:00.0 | So Bob emails directed at you. |
| 0:03.5 | Oof. |
| 0:04.2 | Emails in your face. |
| 0:06.9 | Annual patron Hannah from London. |
| 0:08.9 | She says, hi, Dr. Kirk and Bob. |
| 0:10.8 | Woof. |
| 0:11.7 | I have had the same therapist for 10 years attending periodically for six months at a time usually. |
| 0:19.7 | Okay. |
| 0:20.3 | So like six months of therapy and then take a break off and on and for 10 years. |
| 0:28.8 | Recently I got in touch with my therapist on an off period and she told me that she is taking |
| 0:35.9 | a year off due to burnout. |
| 0:43.1 | And though she can't say for certain, she is likely to retire soon. |
| 0:46.8 | I wonder, well, first off, Bob, any thoughts on that? |
| 0:50.3 | That sucks, you know, burnout. |
| 0:53.6 | I don't know if I would have said that to my client. |
| 0:54.9 | I'm taking a year off for burnout. |
| 0:58.6 | I might say I'm taking a year off, but I'm not sure what the benefit to the client is. |
| 0:59.5 | What would be the risk? |
| 1:02.9 | They're going to think, is it because of me? |
| 1:06.0 | Right. Yeah. Yeah. There's no reason to mention that. |
| 1:15.0 | It's totally viable to, and I think a lot of clients, even if they're not happy about it, |
| 1:23.6 | would accept an announcement of I'm taking a year off due to personal reasons. |
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