#125 - Therapy That Works for 30-Year-Olds Doesn’t Always Work at 75 | Why Therapy Needs to Change With Age

About this episode

This episode discusses the need for therapy approaches to evolve with age, particularly for older adults.

If your 75-year-old client stops coming to therapy, it might not be them. It might be your approach. In this episode, I explore why therapy must evolve, just like people, with age. I share five powerful ways to evolve your practice to better serve older adults. While many therapists are trained to work with adults in general, most graduate and continuing education programs focus on midlife or younger adulthood, often excluding older adulthood entirely. The result is a significant gap ...

Topics covered

• therapy
• aging
• mental health
• older adults
• practice evolution

Keywords

• therapy
• older adults
• mental health
• practice change

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