This is a 5-minute “Deep Dive Podcast:
In most fields, results bring financial rewards. In mine, it can be isolating.
As a therapist with over 40 years of experience—and training in numerous effective therapy modalities—I’ve helped clients experience profound emotional shifts. Sometimes in just one session. Not months. Not years. Many times in just a few minutes (See my case postings.)
You’d think that kind of success would bring in more referrals. But here’s the catch:
When people change that fast, they don’t go back to their therapist and ask for more sessions. They don’t talk with their friends or family about their emotional shifts. They don’t tell their psychiatrist, “I’m done with meds.”
They simply get better—and move on.
But cognitive dissonance kicks in—for other professionals, too.
If someone heals too quickly, too easily, or too permanently, it threatens a belief system built on the assumption that deep emotional change takes years. Instead of celebrating results, many professionals dismiss them.
There’s also no financial incentive for fewer sessions.
Fewer sessions = fewer dollars.
I don’t blame them. It’s human nature. But it’s made my work hard to talk about—and even harder still to refer.
Still, I keep doing it. Because once you’ve seen shame dissolve… panic fade… lifelong anger quiet into peace… you can’t unsee it.
You can’t go back to slow therapy.
You can only go forward—with the truth.
Clint77090@gmail.com
See:
https://clintmatheny.com/thirteen-year-follow-up-with-the-client-that-opened-my-eyes/