“Sometimes the magic works and sometimes it doesn’t,” said Chief Dan George in the movie Little Big Man. This philosophy resonates when I’m not sure why my actions as a therapist work or don’t work.  I mentally archive the mysterious cases as puzzles until new theoretical insights, even years later, provide the missing pieces. For instance, a client I’ll call Linda was helped after I acted intuitively with her father during a family crisis session. The Enneagram eventually contributed to m...

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