1. Why Do You Want to Be a Therapist? A Question & Answer in Two Parts

2. Reflections: My Becoming a Therapist

3. Why Doing Therapy is Hard Work

4. Transitions: From the Academic to the Agency World

5. Piling On: Common Clinical Challenges

6. Reflections: My First Year

II. Your Work

7. Six Ways to Build Rapport

8. Be the Adult

9. What Can’t You Do?

10. Coping with Anxiety: Approach, Avoid, or Bind?

11. The Relationship Triangle

12. Making the Most of Parallel Process

13. Shifting Focus: How Therapy is Different from Normal Conversation

14. Therapy’s Many Voices

15. Therapy as a Pragmatic Sport

16. Creative Formats: Thinking Outside the Box

17. Therapy as Performance

18. Handling Self-Disclosure

19. Sounds of Silence

20. Everything to Know About Resistance

21. Getting on Track and Staying There

22. Changing the Emotional Climate

23. The Challenge of Couple Therapy

24. Three Big Obstacles in Relationships

25. Children, Families, and Therapy

26. Working with Play

27. Time to Check In

28. First Aid for Those Awful Sessions

29. When a Client Is in Crisis

30. Working with Clients Who are Different From You

31. Handling Sexual Attraction: It’s Gonna Happen

32. Those You Can’t Help

III. Your Workplace

33. So, You Don’t Like Your Supervisor?

34. What Your Supervisor’s World Is Like

35. Time to Leave Your Therapist?

36. Clients Are not Vicarious Outlets

37. When You Don’t Like Your Clients

38. Working in Challenging Environments

39. When You're Having a Hard Time

40. So, What Do You Do All Day?

41. Organization One: Taking Control of Your Day

42. Organization Two: Setting Priorities

IV. Your Career

43. Your Work: A Job, a Career, a Calling

44. One Year Out: Moving from Content to Process

45. Moving On: Coming into Your Power

46. A Voice of Your Own

47. How to Use Trainings

48. When You Outgrow Your Job

49. Transitions: Clinician to Supervisor

50. Going Private

51. Reflections: Looking Back at a Career

V. You

52. Are You a Builder or a Discoverer?

53. Creating a Balanced Life

54. Getting Closure: Writing to Heal Old Wounds

55. Reflections: My Big Day in Court

56. Run Toward What You Fear

57. Your Life as a Movie

58. What’s Your Relationship with Your Life?

59. How to Be Wise

References

Index