Posts

Showing posts with the label internet

TMI

Image
One of my professional supervisors recently referred someone to my practice for couples counseling. A day or so later, my colleague got an angry call from this same person, wanting to know why he gave him my name. Did he actually know who I was?! Of course, my colleague said. I gave you her name because she's a very good therapist. I looked her up online. Have you read that newspaper column about the Church? he countered. Well, yes, and I don't think there was anything in that column about the Church and child sex abuse that wasn't true, my mentor said. After some other choice words, the caller asked for a different referral. I think that's what we call client "self selecting."   One of the risks of writing or speaking in public is that people may actually listen to you. Since most if not all of what I write would be considered persuasive speech, what happens as a matter of course is that some people will agree with me, and some people won't. And