I've been a therapist for more than 30 years, in the UK and the US, and have treated everyone from royalty and Hollywood celebrities to Olympians and fashion designers. And in being a therapist, I very quickly saw what worked and what didn't work. I didn't want to be the kind of therapist who saw clients every week to talk about their problems and their pain; I wanted to make therapy more simple and more rapid, because I always felt therapy was the only healing modality that would say, 'Bring me your pain, but it might take a long time to make you feel better.' If I turned up in A&E and I'd put my knee out, they would probably try and make me better immediately. If I'd cracked a tooth, I'd expect the dentist to do something right away. I felt that therapy should offer something similar: when people turn up in tremendous pain, you should try and get them out of pain fast.
A lot of therapists don't like that word - they say you shouldn't put the words rapid and therapy together, and you shouldn't tell people they can change quickly. But I have never understood that. We change every day. In fact, you can change twice every day, every single day. The first change occurs to your thinking, and the second change happens to your actions, as a consequence of changing your thinking.
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