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When family therapy feels performative instead of healing

My teenage daughter and I have been doing therapy together for months but we keep having the same fight about boundaries and I think we're both performing 'getting better' for the therapist instead of actually dealing with what's broken between us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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The structure meant to facilitate healing has become another arena for the same underlying patterns of avoidance and control.

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