Lets say that you are a child and you really really love Poptarts. But every morning you come downstairs to see your mom eating them! This made you super upset so you come to therapy
if I only met with you “the child” alone, and you came to me with this problem in individual therapy I would be limited in the work I could do: I could validate and agree with how frustrating it is to have someone eat your poptarts
I could say “well did you try taking deep breathes while you watched your mom eat your poptarts?!”
or “have you tried oatmeal?!” and you would probably say to me “that makes it a little better but does not fix the problem?!?”
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