You can define cognitive defusion. You can explain it to your supervisor and you would pass a question on it. Then you run it with a client and they say, "I guess that was interesting." That gap is where most practicum students get stuck, and it is almost never comprehension. It is setup. The concept in one sentence: defusion helps a client see that they are not their thoughts. They are the one having their thoughts. The technical term is deliteralization, which is more usefu

You send an important message. Hours go by. Nothing comes back. And your brain gets to work. I must have said something wrong. They’re upset with me. You reread what you sent. Ten times. You replay the last conversation, hunting for the moment it went bad. One person has not replied to one message. But you are already deep into an investigation. Bring that moment into therapy and what happens next may depend on the approach your therapist uses. Not because one approach is rig