The Importance of Compassion in Psychotherapy

Many of my clinical clients are too agreeable. They don't know how to stand up for themselves. And so a lot of what you do in enpsychotherapy is treat people's anxiety and depression. Help them straighten out the way they think, that's a huge chunk of it. But another chunk of it is, well, let's toughen you up, you know, let's put you in a position where you can bargain. Let's teach you how to assert yourself and stand up for yourself. That's assertiveness training. It's a huge chunk psychotherapy, and you need to learn it....