Behind Closed Doors
The things therapists talk about when no one else is listening.
There is a public version of psychotherapy—the theories, techniques, research, and carefully considered answers.
And then there is the conversation that happens behind closed doors.
The doubts. The mistakes. The moments we misread. The patients who get under our skin. The things we're embarrassed to admit we don't know. And the stories that become funny only after enough time has passed.
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What We Don’t Usually Say Out Loud
The conversations clinicians tend to save for trusted colleagues.
The Mistakes
The interventions that landed badly. The things we wish we had said differently. And what the mistakes taught us.
The Patients Who Stay With Us
The people we find ourselves thinking about long after the session ends—and what that may say about them, the work, and us.
The Things We Still Don’t Know
Experience brings confidence. It also makes you increasingly aware of how much in psychotherapy remains uncertain.
BEHIND CLOSED DOORS · NO. 01
One of the Two Participants
Richard Raubolt, PhD, ABPP
A clinical conversation need not be long or detailed to be memorable. A singular thought, a phrase, even a word can have a profound effect—for better or worse.
On supervision, anxiety, and the lessons that stay with us.
FROM BEHIND CLOSED DOORS
The Archive
Notes from the consulting room worth returning to.
Short reflections from Shelley Dennis and Richard Raubolt on the moments, questions, mistakes, and uncertainties that continue to shape how we think about psychotherapy.