In order not to run the risk again that my criticism will be deleted, here is a new version.
To ask us for an evaluation after our first and only appointment is quite courageous. But that is already the only positive thing I can say about Mr. Laggner. A therapist who, in the middle of a conversation, utters the sentence "there are no mental illnesses" should, in my opinion, urgently think about changing jobs.
Actually, that would have been the moment to get up and leave. Nevertheless, we struggled through another hour of the appointment.
What we heard from Mr. Laggner: many, many, many personal anecdotes, the request to accept the situation and to give the other person space, but at the same time the tip to "get the spark glowing again" (original quote), without even remotely addressing how these two nevertheless very different approaches can best be combined. Despite repeated inquiries, by the way, because "the patients have to do the work". Eh. But if we could do it alone, we wouldn't be here.
In addition, there were a lot of book and article recommendations, and on my objection that as a mother of a severely handicapped child I unfortunately have neither the time nor the nerves to read specialist literature, I was accused of an unwillingness to cooperate or to further my education.
After 1.5 hours we ended the appointment, which was actually scheduled for 2 hours, and could at least laugh heartily together again, because we hadn't experienced anything so bizarre in a long time. And, it must be said, we have experience with both individual and couples therapy settings. So we also know how things can be different.
For us it was definitely an unsatisfying and in my eyes not very professional therapy experience, maybe it fits better for other, less "unwilling" (I still think it's good) clients.
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