Rob and Sherry talk in depth about the topic of therapy. Sherry sheds some light on questions like, when should someone think about going to therapy, what happens in therapy, how to find a therapist, and the differences between therapy and consulting.

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Episode Transcript

Sherry Walling:

I got up at like 5:45 this morning to work on my little writing project.

Rob Walling:

Yeah, how’s that going?

Sherry Walling:

You know, like writing projects go. I wish I was a little bit further along, but I feel really motivated to get it done, so hopefully I’ll continue to find this really great schedule of getting up early and not being distracted by small people, and get some good writing finished.

Rob Walling:

Seemed to work so far today. That is your ebook on raising entrepreneurial kids, is that right?

Sherry Walling:

Yep, that’s the one.

Rob Walling:

If you’re listening and you’re interested in perhaps hearing … it’s some of our combined thoughts from stuff we’ve talked about in the past, as well as a lot of your new thoughts that you’re putting down. Folks can come to zenfounder.com, enter your email address, and you’ll definitely be the first to hear about it, although the first to hear about it aside from our patrons, folks who support ZenFounder with a patron pledge. They, of course, receive free copies of the stuff we produce, so that’s at supportzenfounder.com. If you get value out of this show, we’d appreciate a pledge. But, also buying the eBooks and such that we produce also will help support the show.

Sherry Walling:

And it makes me not feel so bad about the world.

Rob Walling:

Why do you feel bad about the world?

Sherry Walling:

I’m just kidding. It’s just an ego stroke.

Rob Walling:

You’re just trolling everyone.

Sherry Walling:

Please love me! Please buy my book! Please!

Rob Walling:

And leave iTunes reviews while you’re at it.

Sherry Walling:

Oh my God, okay. Let’s actually do something with this episode.

 

Today I wanted to dive in to talk a little bit about something we’ve never talked about on the show in depth, but it’s surprising because of how much of an expert you are on this topic, but it’s talking about therapy. And basically, what it looks like to go to therapy, what happens in therapy, how do you know you have a good therapist, the difference between therapy and coaching or consulting because you do both and they are in fact different things. So, given that you are a trained clinical psychologist with a PhD and Masters in Psychology and you’ve been practicing now for how long?

Sherry Walling:

I became licensed in 2008. But that was after five years of intensive practice under supervision.

Rob Walling:

Right, so you kind of started as a trainee in 2003. So you have quite a bit of experience under your belt at this point. I remember growing up, let’s say in the 80s, people would talk about going to a psychologist, a shrink, they would call them, and there was just a really negative perception of it, I think. That maybe you were weak or that something was wrong with you if you went to therapy. I feel like that, at least in the circle I