What Makes A Good Psychotherapist?

This question is perhaps more to the point than the question “What is a good approach to therapy?” In this post Vivian Baruch, a colleague with her finger on the psychotherapy outcome literature, takes up this question and provides welcome insight into this fundamental question.

Spoiler alert! Decades of meta-analysis say the answer is neither “the therapeutic approach” nor “a therapist’s years of experience.”

Join Vivian and me to learn what distinguishes “super therapists” from the rest of their colleagues.

About Daniel Mintie

Daniel Mintie is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's School Of Medicine. He has a private practice in Taos New Mexico, USA and teaches cognitive-behavioral therapy at universities and training centers worldwide.

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