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More Training is Just Avoidance

Stop hiding behind the next certificate and start trusting yourself.

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TJ Walsh
Aug 10, 2025
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Therapy has a dirty little secret: the biggest factor in whether your clients get better has almost nothing to do with your latest certification.

For decades, meta-analyses have shown the same thing: in individual therapy, the therapeutic alliance (basically, the quality of the relationship between you and your client) accounts for about 30% of the varia…

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