Evan, Melissa, and Eli explore how assuming a clients' needs may negatively impact their growth within therapy. Topics also explored regard: 

• Mental health professionals are underpaid 
• How private practice marketing draws clients that a culturally similar 
• Community-based planning compared to counseling agendas 
• Presenting problem, adaptations, and what skill is needed to combat
• Getting caught in trauma dramas 
• When might reflection of sadness be maladaptive 
• Tracking language in session 
• Even Hitler threw great parties 
• Open chair photo and mirror technique how to mitigate client performance energy 
• Shame recycling
• What the hell is sycophantic?
• How the adaptive becomes maladaptive 
• Framing client scripts as code and OS
• Internal vs external locus of control
• Effective strategies to invite client to gain sense of internal locus of control

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