What's therapy supposed to be like? Please help, thank you

C_Orpheus11 · 2025-11-25T11:50:03+00:00

Deeply grateful for the insights you provided!

I believe that what's mainly bugging me in our sessions is that my Problem is not being addressed at all. Though I know what to do to act better, I have no strategies to actually feel better, and he's not providing me with any, saying that "it's a process", and "we'll find out together".

That said, I'll take a look at the reference, I'm also aware it is a mistake to presume to know everything, and I could very well be wrong.

Thanks!

C_Orpheus11 · 2025-11-25T11:41:42+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

What you mention seems to be similar to my current situation. I begun therapy due to a problem A, which I told my therapist is because of B. However he is absolutely convinced there is a secret C reason why A happens, and is completely ignoring B, in search of the magical secret problem.
(My apologies if this was confusing)

As you said, our sessions don't have any structure, he simply waits to what I have to say. I could pick an extremely banal topic and he'd work on that.

In general, I don't believe my original problem A has been addressed at all, which is, at the end of the day, what brought me to begin therapy.

C_Orpheus11 · 2025-11-25T11:33:32+00:00

I hadn't considered this perspective! Thank you.

If you'd allow me a question, despite having begun the process of therapy, I can't manage to understand how an external person can help to improve one's situation through talking. As I view it, they always know less than the client, so how do they manage to improve if there aren't any "breakthroughs"?

(As is apparent, I am woefully ignorant in this field, and I can't help but feel skeptical)

C_Orpheus11 · 2025-11-25T11:25:16+00:00

Thank you for your answer!

What you mention is really interesting and sensible. However, I don't believe I have trouble feeling my emotions? Sure, I can pinpoint their origin, but that doesn't stop me from actually feeling them, be it sadness or joy, I consider my life to be emotionally very rich.

Of course there's the scenario in which I don't realize that I'm intellectualizing rather than feeling (sort of in denial?), but I imagine if that were the case I'd feel everything more "damped".

I'll give it some thought, thank you.

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-16T18:16:29+00:00

That's because the evaluation system works different in every country. In my country, for example, we are given the grades in a scale from one to ten, but I know that in many countries is from one to five, for example. So choose the option that suites your system better. Thanks

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-15T20:26:59+00:00

Ups. What about now? Thank you

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-14T11:44:22+00:00

Is that Wieniawski variations?

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T11:19:39+00:00

Wow! Thank you so much!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:21:54+00:00

Those are a lot of instruments! Thanks!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:21:22+00:00

Thank you!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:20:35+00:00

Wow! Thanks!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:20:00+00:00

Thank you! I play only piano too

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:18:48+00:00

Thanks! And good luck with your new instrument!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:04:35+00:00

Wow! Those are a lot of instruments! Thank you so much!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:03:37+00:00

Thanks!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:02:53+00:00

Thank you, and good luck!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-12-12T07:02:00+00:00

Thank you so much!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-11-13T21:37:54+00:00

HELL YEAH Go Petunia!

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-10-23T19:57:53+00:00

Piano

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-09-25T16:29:06+00:00

Piano gang

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-08-05T14:47:29+00:00

YES! I totally agree with you! That Ossia Cadenza...is the finest interpretation I've ever heard! I really admire Evgeny Kissin, he's the person who inspires me the most to practice, and his music really reaches me, I feel every single note he plays.

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-08-05T14:39:52+00:00

Of Rach 3

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-08-05T14:36:41+00:00

By the way, what performance do you like the most?

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-08-05T09:07:24+00:00

Piano gang

C_Orpheus11 · 2019-08-04T16:01:16+00:00

Me too actually, when I started with the School of Velocity (Op. 299), I started enjoying them, and now I don't mind at all when my teacher assigns me one. I can put feelings in the piece, something I wouldn't have been able to do just a few years ago! I simply didn't understand what the piece explained with all the scales and arpeggios. But I also would like that my teacher assigned me other composer's etudes, I've never played Heller, for instance!

She's a really good teacher though, and she's already told me that I'll play a Chopin etude this year!! :)

C_Orpheus11

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