Another Take-Away

This course continues to provide take-aways for me. DJ-ing is fast becoming one of my favorites. Since class began, I keep thinking about psychotherapy as a mix. And the process of therapy as being a mix that moves toward re-mixing. I love the potential for applications of this for my field.

Today, in the U.S.A., therapy is vastly becoming a joint venture between client and therapist. This is so, thanks to health management organizations (HMO’s) and the up-and-coming savvy therapy generation of clients which know no shame regarding their status as participants in their mental health care. The therapy generation is what clients are now known as by therapists working in U.S. university counseling centers, largely due to the rich post-modern characteristics of clients at universities. My point here is that therapy with post-moderns plays nicely to the DJ-ing paradigm. As a practitioner who has just completed a rotation at Christian university counseling center, I am enjoying reconsidering therapy as collaborative DJ therapy, in which client and therapist participate as co-DJ’s who join together in sounding out the client’s starting mix, and gradually make a re-mix which includes sound bites and images from each collaborators’ perspective and personal experience (including the therapist’s education and the client’s history), as well as the mix from Scripture and blatant God moments. The process of re-mix may easily include word pictures (imagery), connecting experiences of past and present, Scripture, as well as securing applications for the future. Therapy would end prematurely if the client leaves without a remix that applies for his/her immediate future. Further, I think the concept of DJ-ing leaves inevitable the expectation that the client will be adding new bits and pieces into his/her mix and incorporating images/sounds from others as well.