Struggling to reconnect with pals? Perhaps you need friendship therapy
Two thirds of us say we feel less close to friends than before the pandemic, so perhaps relationship therapy could bring us back together
12 May 2021 • 11:30am
Ann Friedman and Aminatou Sow: 'We needed some outside force to push us to have the conversations we needed to have'
Credit: Milan Zrnic
There were three of us on the Zoom – me, my therapist and a good friend. Awkward? Yes. Intense? Yes. Fun? Absolutely not. Worthwhile? Results pending.
How had we got to a point where we were doing a video session with a therapist? The fault lies with me – I had given my friend my therapist’s name as I knew she too had been considering seeing one for a while. But I hadn’t known that that went against my therapists’ ethics – treating two friends could lead to bias on her part.