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Scenario

When couples both do CBT but accidentally sabotage each other's progress

My partner and I are both doing CBT with different therapists for our individual anxiety issues, but we keep undermining each other's homework assignments without meaning to - like when I'm trying to practice exposure therapy and they want to 'help' by removing the trigger, or when they're working on thought records and I jump in with solutions instead of letting them process.

More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Two people committed to individual healing are discovering that their protective instincts toward each other conflict with the requirements of therapeutic growth.

Your guide for this
Patan
Patan works with people navigating exactly this kind of situation.
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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with CBT — principles and practice?”

Peri

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