Silence in therapy
A silence that isn't awkwardness but a space in which what fast conversation covers over can appear.
How it shows up
Many people find silence uncomfortable and fill it. That itself is often a pattern you know from other relationships — talking so that there isn’t emptiness.
What we do with it in therapy
I don’t use silence as a test. When I leave it, it is because something is forming in it. And if it is too much for you, tell me — we’ll talk about that.
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See also
Anger
The emotion that says a boundary has been crossed or a need threatened — energy, not a fault.
Relational family therapy
A Slovenian model connecting the systemic view with bodily experience and with the affect transmitted between family members.
Cognitive behavioural therapy
An approach working with the link between thoughts, feelings and behaviour, usually structured and time-limited.
