As a part of our GoodTherapy Member Highlight collection, we spoke with Dr. Glenda Clare, a licensed scientific psychological well being counselor and habit counselor primarily based in Durham, North Carolina.
Dr. Clare brings each skilled experience and lived expertise to her work with people, households, and teams. With specializations in household relationships, life transitions, grief and bereavement, and habit counseling, she creates a heat, nonjudgmental partnership together with her shoppers. Her philosophy is easy: “All of us acquired points” — and remedy is a secure place to work by them collectively. On this interview, Dr. Clare presents sensible recommendation on beginning remedy, discovering the appropriate therapeutic match, and what makes a profitable counseling relationship.
This collection highlights therapists who’re keen to supply perception into the remedy expertise and share worthwhile views on the way to make psychological well being care extra approachable and genuine. Learn under to study extra about Dr. Clare’s method.
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Q&A with Dr. Glenda Clare
Q: What would you say to somebody who’s by no means been to remedy earlier than and is inquisitive about what occurs within the first remedy session?
Dr. Clare:
Once I take into consideration the primary session for somebody who’s beginning remedy, I need them to know that remedy is a secure place. It’s a spot the place they’ll come, they are often themselves, they’ll share with somebody that’s not going to evaluate them.
Throughout that first session, we’re basically setting the parameters for what’s going to occur after. When I’ve my first session [with a client], I’m usually going over some issues that they should know: the classes are confidential [and] I’m there to hearken to them and to information them. They should know that basically that is their remedy, so additionally they are setting some boundaries by way of what they do and don’t need to focus on.
There are some occasions after I can’t preserve the whole lot confidential — in case you’re going to harm your self or in case you’re going to harm another person. Throughout these occasions, I won’t be able to maintain this confidential.
Q: How does remedy assist if somebody seems like one thing’s off, however they’ll’t fairly put their finger on it?
Dr. Clare:
All of us acquired points. There are occasions in everybody’s lives the place issues aren’t fairly the way in which we predict that they need to be. It’s throughout these time durations that it’s okay to enter into remedy.
Remedy is a spot the place you’ll be secure. Nobody’s going to be sharing your online business. Nobody goes to be judging you. They’re going to take that point with you to say, effectively, possibly there’s something to that, that we have to look at. And what? That’s a great factor. Change occurs while you first acknowledge that there’s a necessity for change, and then you definately do one thing about it. Going to remedy is that first step in doing one thing about it.
Q: Why is it vital for individuals to seek out therapists who perceive them?
Dr. Clare:
Let’s be sincere. Everyone will not be your individual. You don’t have to be coping with the people who find themselves clueless about your scenario, about who you might be, about what you might be striving to do.
It’s okay to display screen therapists. I’ve 15-minute session classes so individuals can see, will we click on or don’t we click on?
It’s vital to try this. And even after that quarter-hour, say you’ve been assembly with any individual for a few weeks and also you’re nonetheless not fairly certain that they’re form of getting it, then you may change.
Nevertheless, don’t resolve you don’t like any individual as a result of they’re difficult you. That’s a part of remedy. They need to be difficult you to get out of your consolation zone.
We have now what’s known as the therapeutic alliance. It’s a relationship between the consumer and the therapist. Throughout these first few session classes, you might be interviewing them, and they’re interviewing you. You might be interviewing them to see in case you imagine that you simply click on with one another. The therapist can also be going to be doing the dance of, is that this a subject that I believe that I could be useful to the consumer about?
Q: What’s your remedy method, and what’s completely different about the way in which you’re employed with shoppers?
Dr. Clare:
My philosophy is that all of us acquired points. We’re to determine what you want and to offer the sources that you simply want to be able to improve your wellness, not mine.
So this can be a partnership. There could also be some instructions that I believe is perhaps good so that you can go in and you’ll have one other thought. It’s about you and me working with you to provide you what you want to be able to get higher.
Q: Out of your expertise, what are the indicators of a great client-therapist match?
Dr. Clare:
I’ve discovered that feelings are key. Once I’ve acquired a great match with a consumer, there are days once we cry collectively. There are days once we chortle collectively. So we will have a mix of the 2 of these issues.
The underside line is that you simply get it, that you’ve got AHA moments, that that you simply’re simply feeling secure with that individual.
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Dr. Glenda Clare’s method to remedy embodies the core values of GoodTherapy: creating secure, nonjudgmental areas the place shoppers can discover their challenges and work towards significant change. Whether or not you’re navigating household relationships, life transitions, grief, or habit restoration, remedy presents a partnership the place your voice issues and your wellness is the precedence.
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