This 7-minute episode of this “Deep Dive Podcast” recounts a pivotal experience for me and one of my first clients, dating back 40 years ago:
As therapists, we hold the extraordinary capacity to spark insight, foster healing, and transform lives. Lucinda’s story is a poignant reminder that within every client lies the possibility for profound change.
Over forty years ago (1985), thirteen-year-old Lucinda transformed my understanding of what is possible in a therapy session. At that time, I had been practicing therapy for less than a year. Are your expectations influencing your clients’ expectations?
This 12-minute video features part of the 1985 session and a 13-year follow-up interview in 1998.
In just one session, Lucinda changed her negative self-concept. Additionally, with a five-minute follow-up phone conversation, she went from seeing out of one eye to seeing simultaneously out of both eyes. She also corrected her lazy eye, enabling it to work in tandem with her “good” eye, and transformed from an introverted to an extroverted person. Watch the video!
Lucinda was legally blind with an uncontrolled left eye, which she could only see out of if she covered her other eye. She had recently undergone laser surgery on her “good” right eye and asked me to help her see out of both eyes. Without hesitation, I agreed to her request!
Fortunately, I had an observant secretary. A few days before this session, I had purchased one of the new consumer Sony BetaMax video camera. Who would believe me if I hadn’t recorded this on videotape? Who would believe Lucinda? Notice what happens when I asked her if she told anyone about her changes.
I always ask for permission from my clients before videotaping a session for my personal training and supervision. Only once did I video record a session without the client’s permission:
Just by asking a few simple “clean language questions” to your clients, the unusual can happen before your own eyes. Not always, but more often than not.
During the past 40 years, I have assisted over ten clients regain vision in one of their eyes and well over twenty traumatized clients (frozen in time) regain their peripheral vision in both eyes. People experiencing trauma will experience tunnel vision during the traumatic event or fix focus on an object.See my postings (#) with Jay and Nancy:
https://clintmatheny.com/nancy-healing-sexual-abuse/
What is “Clean Language”? See the posting:
https://clintmatheny.com/what-is-clean-language-therapy/
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