Being Well with Forrest Hanson and Dr. Rick Hanson Everything You Need to Know About Therapy
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May 6, 2024 
Clinical psychologist Dr. Rick Hanson and Forrest Hanson discuss everything about therapy; getting more from it, choosing the right approach, and reasons behind therapy costs. They cover major schools of psychotherapy, alternative modalities, questions for therapists, client motivation, and duration of therapy. The conversation explores deep emotional processes, insurance challenges, and the benefits of mindfulness in therapy.
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Humanistic Therapy Restores Basic Goodness
- Humanistic therapy assumes people are fundamentally good and grows potential through acceptance and relational safety.
- Rick: recognizing yourself as a basically good person paradoxically increases capacity to deal with flaws and shame.
Why CBT Became Insurance Friendly
- CBT is research-friendly and manualizable, which made it attractive to insurers and dominant in training.
- Rick: CBT's structure allows short, bounded courses insurers prefer, not because it's universally superior but because it's measurable.
Combine Acceptance With Active Change
- Effective therapy combines 'being with' (mindfulness/acceptance) and 'working with' (CBT-style effort).
- Rick: treating feelings with acceptance while also deliberately changing thoughts/behaviors forms a necessary two-wing approach.