Lauren Barnett: Finding the Right Therapist, Not Just Any Therapist

Rapport is not the pleasant extra on top of therapy. Lauren Barnett's position is that it is the mechanism, and that the research bears this out: the therapeutic alliance between two people predicts whether the work succeeds more reliably than any technique used inside it. Our guest is Lauren Barnett, founder of a Connecticut practice built around matching individuals and families to the right mental health professional. She has three decades in the field, across schools, hospitals, camps and...