Edge of the Couch Honing Your Therapist Intuition
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May 7, 2025 They explore how therapist intuition shows up as a somatic felt sense and pattern recognition in session. They talk about how experience, memory, and intake details build those hunches over time. They cover ways to tentatively introduce impressions, check for bias, and use supervision to refine and validate intuitive hits.
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Therapist Intuition Is Multi Dimensional
- Therapist intuition is multi-dimensional, combining embodied sensations, pattern recognition from experience, and attunement to clients.
- Jordan and Allison describe intuition as a slowly percolating, bodily felt sense informed by hundreds of prior client patterns.
Couch Intuition With Tentative Language
- When you voice an intuition, couch it tentatively and invite correction to reduce harm and test the idea.
- Use phrases like I wonder, this may not land, or I have a reflection you don't have to take on to see how it lands.
Timing And Attunement Guide Interventions
- Attunement includes timing: notice natural pauses and mismatches so you don't disrupt a client's process.
- Look for incongruence between words and facial expression, tone, or gesture to guide when to name something.