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Fire Your Therapist: Why Therapy Might Not Be Working for You and What You Can Do about It Paperback – June 1, 2009

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""This is a terrific book about you achieving peak performance, better balance, and success. Think of it as your own personal guide to getting from good to great in your life. Dr. Siegler actually does what many before have set out to accomplish-bright, ambitious people of all ages now have a proven path to transformation.""
—Stewart Emery, coauthor of the international bestsellers Success Built to Last and Do You Matter?

""Dr. Siegler possesses the qualities of the best catalysts for profound change: clarity, compassion, and the courage to see each client with brand new eyes. This book is the essential guide for finding your way through the confusing thicket of self-mastery options.""
—Raphael Cushnir, author of The One Thing Holding You Back and Surfing Your Inner Sea

""Finally, a new paradigm-that is refreshing, daring, cutting edge, and client-centric-that can yield the life and career you want. With Fire Your Therapist, Dr. Siegler ushers in a new era of self-improvement.""
—Josh Baran, author of The Tao of Now

""Dr. Siegler shares the client-centered, goal-directed philosophy of Solution Focused Therapy and broadens it. For those who want to make an educated choice about how to achieve the life they want, he anticipates and answers your questions in a comprehensive and affirming manner.""
—Eve Lipchik, codeveloper of Solution Focused Therapy and author of Beyond Technique in Solution Focused Therapy

Feel like therapy isn't working for you? Wish there were a better way to achieve your goals? Fire Your Therapist introduces a new, holistic approach to creating the life you want. Based on Dr. Siegler's groundbreaking Spheres of Life Coaching Method, this book explains how to move beyond the ""talking cure"" of traditional therapy to a more creative, results-oriented way of achieving your goals. You'll be inspired by the experiences of clients who have benefited from Dr. Siegler's proven methods.

Fire Your Therapist is the essential step-by-step guide for anyone who wants to create a more successful life.

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why therapy might not be working for you and what you can do about it

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Fire your Therapist

why therapy might not be working for you and what you can do about it

Joe Siegler, M.D.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Trade Paper Press; 1st edition (June 1, 2009)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0470194987
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0470194980
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  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.9 x 0.8 x 8.9 inches
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Joe Siegler M.D. is a board-certified psychiatrist, executive coach, speaker, and consultant. He is the president and founder of Full Life® based in Chicago (currently in its 16th year). Dr. Siegler is the creator of Spheres® Leadership Coaching and the Achilles® Plan, which provide clients with unique goal-setting methods for attaining optimal individual and organizational goals. He specializes in one-to-one executive coaching. He provides team coaching for partners and groups and provides inspirational keynotes and seminars geared to bringing a wide range of coaching approaches to organizations. He has lectured on a variety of topics, including: Leadership; Productivity; Avoiding Burnout; Stress; Dating; Relationships; Trauma; Happiness; Sports Performance; Body Image; Life Balance; Improving the Workplace; Customer Service; and miscellaneous other customized subjects. Dr. Siegler also provides consulting services upon request. He has been a guest on radio, as well had television appearances on ABC, WGN, and NBC Chicago.

He served as the Chairman for Behavioral Health in Chicago for Humana and Director of Managed Care at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He completed the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, where he also served as Senior Fellow at the Wharton School of Business. He was also an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania, attended George Washington University Medical School, and New York University Medical Center for Psychiatry Residency where he served as Chief Resident.

Full Life was founded in 1999 by Joe Siegler, MD. Full Life's mission is to enhance the workplace by challenging people to achieve higher performance at work and greater satisfaction in life. For more information on Full Life's services, please visit FLCoaching.com or call 773.529.1200.

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Frank Andrew Nibouar
4.0 out of 5 stars Fire Your Therapist
Reviewed in the United States on October 31, 2009
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Fire Your Therapist, helped give me the little extra bit of reinforcement that I needed to make the changes in my life that I had been wanting to make, but was just not able to make previously. I knew the items that I needed to work on, but for what ever reason, I was just not making them. For me, every once in a while, I need a little help to get to the next level or just some extra help to work through something. More specifically, the second half of the book allowed me to have that little extra bit of confidence that I needed to sort through and move beyond some of my issues.

For me, therapy was not working. I'm just not a traditional therapy type of guy.
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Charles Presti
5.0 out of 5 stars An Eye Opener...
Reviewed in the United States on August 15, 2009
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This is one of those books that you finish and think, wow that was really helpful! I have been an internist for over 25 years and appreciate Dr. Siegler's informative and pragmatic guide for understanding coaching versus therapy. It did not take me long to realize the significant benefit coaching has to offer for my family, friends, patients and colleagues. A knowledge-filled book --and a fun read as well-- with excellent examples written for folks like me who are motivated in getting people (myself included) on the right track. I bought extras to give as gifts.  Fire Your Therapist: Why Therapy Might Not Be Working for You and What You Can Do about It
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Dr. Cathy Goodwin
4.0 out of 5 stars A positive view of coaching
Reviewed in the United States on June 9, 2010
The major contribution of this book is the fact that it exists at all: a psychiatrist suggests replacing therapy with coaching for many cases. The downside is that both therapy and coaching are offered in so many forms that it's hard to make comparisons. Indeed, I heard of a licensed therapist who told her friends, "I work the same way with all my clients. Some want to see me as a therapist; others want to call me a coach."

Siegler presents the classic view of the coach who listens and supports clients by asking questions. In practice, many coaches have strong opinions; some seem to have agendas. Siegler says many therapists retain a Freudian ideology, but it's fair to say that coaches too have ideologies, such as the Law Of Attraction.

The strength and weakness of coaching is that it is unabashedly a commercial service, like visiting a hair stylist. There's no stigma. Clients are not in a one-down position where they're called "patients." Coaching focuses on action and doesn't pin a label on patients. You're paying for results and nobody pretends otherwise.

But coaching doesn't come cheap. As Siegler points out, coaches demand commitments from three months to a year. In truth, most reputable coaches will be happy to end a relationship if it's not working. However, it's important to consider that over six months or a year, life happens. Will you want a break if a close relative dies or you lose a job? You lose momentum and may not achieve your goals, although it's not really your fault or your coach's fault.

Siegler's book offers food for thought for anyone who's thinking of coaching. What's missing is a way to choose a coach, decide if the sessions are working and end a relationship if appropriate. The book's guidelines for choosing are nothing more than a checklist. Mostly, he says, you have to decide if you feel comfortable with the coach.

I agree completely with the recommendation to study a coach's website. Most coaches today offer workshops, audio programs and even videos. I would add that it's important to find a coach who works with people like you, so s/he won't be intimidating, condescending or just baffled.

Ultimately, change is not easy, whether working with a coach or therapist. Many years ago, psychiatrist Allen Wheelis wrote a book, How People Change. I believe he suggested that people change when they decide they will take action with or without the help of a therapist. I think that's still true today.
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Doug Chisholm
1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous
Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2014
This is clearly an over the top ploy to sell books. This is not scientific and it is not helpful. This is a book that encourages neurotic, perfectionistic behavior. It is unfortunate that the author preys on weak minded people. Good therapy has always been and will always be more helpful that "doing" more. Horrible...
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Jerry Saperstein
2.0 out of 5 stars More of the same and maybe less
Reviewed in the United States on October 1, 2009
My perception of this book and its author are colored by my personal experience with the author and his Full Life Center. The experiences were negative and I freely admit they impact my perception of the book.

Someone recommended Dr. Siegler as a "life coach" and I called his office for information on the services provided. It reminded me of one of those timeshare sales operations. The woman who answered would give me no information and demanded that I come to their offices. I explained that they were a 45 minute drive from me and it struck me as bizarre that they would expect people to make that kind of time investment without knowing what services were offered. The woman then asked me if I wanted life coaching services. How, I asked, would I know if she wouldn't tell me what their concept of life coaching was. She then spun me an explanation that a lot of people called them trying to get prescriptions for drugs. The conversation was beyond weird at this point and I asked to speak directly to Dr. Siegler. I got voicemail, left a message asking for more information and never received a response. After this very strange experience, I checked Full Life Center and came across a couple of postings that were very similar to mine.

In short, I have formed a negative opinion of Dr. Siegler and his Full Life Center(s).

The book itself is something of a rant against traditional psychotherapy and a determined pitch for life coaching. The writing style is mundane relying on what the author admits are composite case studies. The resulting language is vaporous: "Sean realized that the coach had helped him greatly by figuring out what was actually happening and then coming up with a plan of action. . . . The therapist he started with was obviously projecting many of her own issues onto him in a godlike manner. Luckily, his core self was strong enough to get out and find an affirming and more humble coach." Psychotherapists bad: psychotherapists who relabel themselves as life coaches, good.

The first 110 pages are given to arguments of why you should fire your therapist and how to find a good life coach. This may be of use if you are currently consulting a therapist and marginally so if you are considering doing so. If you're not in either category, the section is something of a waste since it is basically an argument against traditional psycho therapeutic approaches.

The second section is entitled "Build the Life You Want on Your Own and with Your Coach". There's nothing here that you won't find in dozens of other self-help books, with the exception that there is a large dollop of New Ageism running through. There are the "Spheres": You, Career, People. Some of the generalizations are hilarious: "[i]t's fair to say that people spend more time obsessing about work and money than at any time in the past". I suppose the Irish in the 19th Century didn't obsess about work and money since they had neither and faced a choice between starvation and emigration. How about the 25% of the adult population that was unemployed during the American Great Depression? The assertion is nonsensical, but it provides a basis for Siegler to opine on work and money. As I said, my experience left me the impression that I was dealing with a marketing organization and the book reinforces this impression.

On the whole, there is nothing here that you won't find in many other self-help books. Albert Ellis and David Burns come to mind immediately along with many others. "Life coaching" is a big meme at the moment and many are rushing to cash in it on the fad. Everyone has problems in their psyche and life they'd love to resolve: some people take advantage of that natural human desire and exploit it.

Jerry
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Narinder
4.0 out of 5 stars Very insightful !
Reviewed in India on December 10, 2015
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a good insightful read for those wishing to up coaching as a profession. Irrespective of whether the reader is a therapist or a counsellor making a transition to coaching or someone directly taking up coaching, the book is useful. The single most important challenge for a coach is how to convince potential clients about its benefits vis-av-vis other available approaches and this book definitely provides answer to that !

A great resource for the coaches !
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