The Importance of Authenticity in Psychotherapy

i started this work with Alicia Levindusky and Michigan State and some of the students that were on our psychotherapy team she works just down stairs from you together so we had a team who that was focused on helping first-year trainees treat people with personality disorders. One thing i always noticed is that the therapists were like really tight they were afraid of making mistakes  and it doesn't promote trust or alliance when you feel like your therapist is tight, he says. We wanted to get at the behavioral core of authenticity and to define it in a way that's not conflated with agreeableness according to his research.