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Clinician & CEO - Blackbird Family Therapy, Inc. | Matthew "Matt" Lindgren
Matthew Lindgren Rojo, LMFTMatt Lindgren, a licensed marriage and family therapist in Walnut Creek on online at onlinecouplestherapy.com. Blogs about couples therapy, mental health, therapy, psychology and related random musings.
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Is there such a thing as being ready for therapy? There’s no line in the sand that a person crosses, determining that “yes! now you’re ready!” In my opinion, and my experience with supervisors with way more experience than me, the vast majority of people can benefit from therapy. Like, 99.999% or something. The exceptions I can think of right now are extremely psychotic people (but lots of people with psychosis can and do benefit from therapy) and people whose intellectual functioning is not high enough for most therapy methods (but sometimes a behavioral approach will work well for them). In those cases, a lot of times it’s just that traditional “talk therapy” isn’t going to be the thing that works, but other therapeutic things- psychiatric rehab, structured therapeutic environments, clear behavioral reinforcement, etc- can still work. (and medication). There are theories about stages of change, which is usually applied to the substance use community most of the time but sometimes applied to therapy in general. Stages of change is more about being ready to make the changes you need to make in your life (so, like deciding to get sober), but sometimes when you’re really not into making those changes the idea of being in therapy is not appealing. So that might apply to what you’re talking about. I don’t find that stages of change literature is very evidence-based, and it doesn’t apply (in my experience) to many clients (but I don’t work with a huge number of substance use clients). Ultimately, in my experience, there are lots of clients who recognize that things are not the way they want, but have difficulty with the idea that they are going to have to change how they do things in order to make things better. That can be a very difficult realization to come to. It’s fine to do that in therapy. When a client is unwilling to consider that possibility though- there’s not much I can do. I can’t make their lives better. I can’t change anything, really. I can only help them figure out how to make the change they want to make. That’s the kind of “not ready” I think of. It doesn’t mean a person shouldn’t be in therapy, but it does mean the first thing we have to work in is overcoming it, so that the client can take control and make those changes for themselves. I hope that helps!
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For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
― Neil deGrasse Tyson (via psych-quotes)
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| About Matthew LindgrenMatt Lindgren is a licensed marriage and family therapist practicing in the Oakland, California, area. The founder and CEO of Blackbird Family Therapy, Inc., Matt Lindgren works extensively with individuals from underserved populations and survivors of crimes and attacks. Matt Lindgren’s wide-ranging experiences and compassionate nature help him to convey to his patients the idea that, “Loving yourself allows others to love you.” http://matthew-matt-lindgren-oakland-depression-therapist.com/ |
