Two Approaches To Adlerian Brief Therapy - Buncombe County ...

Client: My dad came to it.
Therapist: Is he like Dave or like Mark?
Client: He’s like Mark.
Therapist: In what way?
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Client: He doesn’t like to dress up. He was a rancher or a farmer.
Therapist: So you doctoral type people are a bit uppity for him?
Client: No, he was always just very accepting of everybody.
Therapist: He was? That’s nice. What about your mother?
Client: My mother was very demanding. I never liked my mother
much. Until I got married, and then I thought she was
wonderful.
Therapist: What changed?
Client: She was very helpful.
Therapist: In child rearing and that kind of stuff?
Client: Yeah.
Therapist: How did you find your husband?
Client: We were in college together.
Therapist: Did you go after him or him after you?
Client: Well, he went after me, I guess.
Therapist: So why did you give in?
Client: Because somebody told me I should.