Plot twist: Clinicians struggle with psychological flexibility just as much as patients.
Bronnie Thompson explains why stepping into uncertainty threatens your identity as "the expert who knows what they're doing."
You can't predict how someone will experience treatment. That's threatening to your self-concept.
But psychological flexibility means acting in line with your values—even when you don't know. If your value is creating safe space, you have to get comfortable with "I don't know."
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