ADVICE

There are several misconceptions and presumptions about psychotherapy and today I try to clarify one such.

It is easy to advise others. 

The inherent presumptions here being that 
1. in therapy, what you do is give advice;

2. advising is a presumably easy task as it has to do with someone else’s life, and you are not involved. 

Some truths about therapy:

1. Giving advice is the rarest act of a psychotherapist. So, by and large, therapists do not advise. The focus is to enable you to fix your own problems. 

2. Therapists are always involved, they are genuinely concerned about the welfare of their clients, but they are aware of the professional nature of their relationship with the client. 

Instead of urging people to accept therapy for self-growth and self-healing, such fallacies only serve to trivialise the work of trained professionals and the difficulties of clients.

Dishing out advice is likely done with ease in other relationships and professions ,and by a different genre of people. Look around! 🙂