| Summary: | Clinical psychologist George Stricker conducts the second of five sessions with a middle-aged female African American client. The client presented with depressive symptoms and financial concerns, along with concerns about parenting, in the wake of a divorce. Dr. Stricker works from an assimilative psychodynamic framework, providing a holding environment for the client as she seeks to process emotions during this transitional period. The client expresses fear as a motivating force over the past year as she has sought to maintain security and stability for herself and her family. Dr. Stricker validates her accomplishments and reflects these goals as intrapsychic ones, focusing on the client's inner sense of security. He works to acknowledge her sense of pride while interpreting the uncertainty that the client reveals beneath her defenses as he seeks to open a period of self-exploration in the psychotherapeutic process.
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