Becoming independent
The process in which a young adult becomes autonomous without having to cut contact.
How it shows up
Two unsuccessful outcomes: leaving with a bang, and staying without a life of your own. Successful independence lies in between — your own decisions and a preserved relationship.
What we do with it in therapy
The work happens on both sides: the young person learns to bear disagreement, the parents to loosen control without experiencing it as a loss.
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The therapeutic relationship
The relationship between you and your therapist, which isn't the frame for the work but the working tool itself.
Schema therapy
An approach working with deep patterns formed in childhood, and with the ways we defend against them.
Emotion regulation
The ability to recognise a feeling, bear it and give it shape — without being swept away and without having to switch it off.
