The psychotherapeutic community needs to tolerate diversity, dissonance, divergence

One of my favorite therapist tweeters did a string of tweets yesterday that I just had to share:

It’s quite amazing to me how hard it is for the psychotherapeutic community to tolerate diversity, dissonance, divergence in its ranks

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

How often one model: psychoanalysis, CBT, want to assert their path and processes as the one true and correct methodology.

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

Psychotherapists & healers of all stripes: behaviorists, CBTist, psychoanalysts, and all factions between & beyond would be better served+ — Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

By understanding that clients are as diverse as we are- and that we all have a vital place in our community – — Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

and that different approaches are needed, necessary for all who are seeking meaning or relief from suffering.

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

And I’ve seen people heal their wounds through pastoral counseling, spiritual paths and processes, martial arts practices, shamanic work.

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

What has happened to a healer who believes they know the one true path to healing?

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

There are wise and ethical (ie: wounded) healers who practice in innumerable traditions.

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

Some need to talk, some prefer meds, some feel wounds in their bodies, some need to access their intuitive lives, some need data to evolve.

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

I begrudge no seeker, and no counselor their tradition or their approach. My path is one among a multitude.

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

And why, in a profession that is supposed to be based in non-judgement, acceptance, and tolerating ambivalence do we fracture and fragment?

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

Reverends, teachers, massage cranial sacral practitioners, yogis, coaches, have offered clients, friends, myself deep &healing relationships

— Martha Crawford LCSW (@shrinkthinks) February 26, 2014

She continued but I’ll stop there.

For such gems on a daily basis visit Martha on twitter or her wonderful blog: What a shrink thinks.

And that’s right “everybody” does not need therapy, in direct contradiction to that party line. People learn how to heal and take care of themselves in a multitude of ways. Therapy is only one thing that some people find helpful.

There are as many healing paths are there are individuals. And every person ideally finds a combination of things that work for them. Because we’re profoundly varied as well as being holistic and we live in a world where everything matters.

Monica Cassani / Gianna Kali

monicacassani@gmail.com

giannakali@gmail.com

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