What lurks in the Shadow?

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Is that what you tell your patients? Do they understand if not how do you attempt to guide or show them ?

No I wouldn't go into a philosophical discussion about psychological theory and such if they are coming in w/ severe distress.

You would spend time fleshing out their life story, and identifying internal resources that are already there, then work from there. So one would not come from a place of deficit but from a place of strength (the light that already shines). If there are very little resources, like a person feeling extremely unlovable, unworthy, totally deflated then you go on to use techniques to being to build foundational resource... but you don't need to explain bc they usually figure out what could help them to cope.