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Where Therapists Get Stuck: What if a New Intervention Doesn't Work Out?

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21.05.2026

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When an intervention doesn’t land, it doesn’t mean you’ve done something wrong.

When you lean in rather than panic, you can learn a lot.

Use this moment as your golden opportunity to get a deeper peek into your client’s world.

This week, I’m wrapping up this year’s session of my course "Assessing and Treating Sex Issues in Psychotherapy." It’s been a pleasure to see how far all of the students have come in the past 15 weeks, and to follow along as their cases progress and their skills and confidence grow.

As a result, I’ve been thinking a lot about what actually allows people to take something they learn from theory to practice. How do we implement what we learn? How do we........

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