Who would study psychology if they didn't have some kind of problem?

Chapter 100 Is this something to be proud of?

Li Minglu's wife is named Wang Sui.

Wang Sui always accompanied Li Minglu during his consultations and interventions.

This time is no exception.

She's quite adept at waiting and is generally patient.

Today is the only exception.

Sitting in the lobby, Wang Sui would occasionally glance in the direction of the consultation room, then look at Lu Jia again and again, observing her face, her figure, her clothes, and her jewelry.

"Would you like another cup of tea?" Lu Jia remained composed despite the extremely piercing gaze, maintaining a polite smile.

Wang Sui frowned slightly and pouted, "No need."

She kept fanning herself with the hand holding the booklet, fanning faster and faster, becoming increasingly agitated.

finally--

With a "click," the door to the consultation room opened.

Li Minglu came out.

Compared to when he first came to the counseling center, he seemed somewhat different after talking with Nan Zhuren.

Wang Sui turned her gaze away from Lu Jia and looked up, asking, "Why did it take so long this time?"

Li Minglu's shoulders suddenly hunched forward, and he instantly reverted to his initial demeanor when he first arrived at the counseling center.

He said, "It's still around the same time as before."

Wang Sui paused in fanning herself: "Is that enough?"

Li Minglu fell silent.

He rubbed his fingers, which had just been holding the pencil, and changed the subject: "Professor Nan would like to invite you in to talk about something."

Wang Sui threw the booklet, which she had stopped using to fan herself, onto the table and complained, "Why is there so much trouble!"

She glanced at her husband, tossed out a sentence like "You sit here and wait for me," and strode away in her high heels.

Li Minglu pursed his lips as he watched his wife's retreating figure disappear without turning back.

"Hello, would you like some tea?"

A hand appeared in front of him.

Li Minglu slowly raised his head and saw Lu Jia's face, a face that seemed to infuse strength with just one glance.

But Li Minglu quickly lowered his gaze, said "thank you," and slowly sat down next to his wife's seat, sipping his tea.

Having spent a long time at the counseling center, Lu Jia watched the entire process of the couple's previous interactions.

However, Lu Jia is a professional after all. Although she is young, she is already very experienced, and her professional social smile remains unchanged.

She slowly walked back to the front desk and sat down.

For the rest of the time, Li Minglu never looked at Lu Jia.

……

click-

The door to the consultation room opened again, and Nan Zhuren saw the family member of the visitor she had met before enter.

When he's working, he habitually scans the other person's expression.

[Visible irritability.]

This was an emotion so obvious that it could be seen without micro-expression analysis. Nan Zhuren took a deep breath, preparing to say something in his voice, which was imbued with "emotional soothing +2".

However, Wang Sui's agitation suddenly stopped.

Previously, when Nan Zhuren was observing the family members of the visitors, Nan Zhuren herself did not appear in the sight of the family members and visitors. Therefore, Wang Sui only saw for the first time now who was giving counseling to her husband.

At this moment, it was clearly visible to the naked eye that Wang Sui exuded a radiant glow, as if she had just had a beauty treatment at a salon, revealing a relaxed and comfortable expression.

"Hello, you must be the counselor who did consultations for my husband before. My name is Wang Sui, but my friends call me Xiao Sui." She even greeted him first, "What's your name?"

Nan Zhuren's expression showed a slight hesitation that could only be detected using micro-expression analysis, but he quickly adjusted it.

"My name is Nan Zhuren, you can call me Teacher Nan."

How old is Teacher Nan?

"24."

"So young and already a psychologist? That's great, wow, that's wonderful."

Nan Zhuren maintained her smile without changing her expression and gestured for Wang Sui to sit down.

"Today is the first time I'm consulting with your husband. I've just learned a lot and collected a lot of information through the transferred documents."

"But there are still some situations that I would like to understand through family members. I hope you can help me."

……

The three key elements that counselors gather to help conceptualize a case are: the client's complaint, the counselor's impression, and the impressions of others.

These three elements represent "the client as seen by the client themselves", "the client from the counselor's professional perspective", and "the client from the perspective of others".

Combining these three methods will result in a more comprehensive collection of information.

However, like Chen Ting before her, and most of the other clients, they chose to come for counseling on their own and were relatively reluctant to let others know that they were receiving psychological counseling.

Therefore, in many cases, counselors are unable to collect information on the "impressions of others".

This time, it was rare for a visitor to bring a family member, so Nan Zhuren naturally wouldn't let this rare opportunity pass by.

Coincidentally, Nan Zhuren also hoped to verify some of the information he had collected during his previous consultations through his conversation with Wang Sui.

First, Nan Zhuren hoped to learn about Li Minglu's current living environment through Wang Sui.

"Have you been taking care of your husband ever since he was diagnosed with depression?"

When consulting with Li Minglu, Nan Zhuren almost avoided all words related to "depression" and used lighter alternatives; but when chatting with Wang Sui, Nan Zhuren not only did not avoid them, but even emphasized them to a certain extent.

However, Wang Sui's reaction surprised Nan Zhuren.

There was no "sadness"...not even any related micro-expressions, and very few "negative emotions."

[Is it because it's been too long and we've gotten used to it? No... there should at least be some "worry" or "concern."]

But now, after I mentioned "depression," she didn't lean forward or back defensively at all; she didn't even frown. There was only...

Wang Sui slightly raised her chin, the skin around her eyelids contracting slightly with excitement: "Yes, I've been taking care of everything! After all, my husband can't find anyone else, and I wouldn't feel comfortable leaving it to anyone else."

This was Nan Zhuren's first conversation with Wang Sui, and he had no time to establish a baseline for Wang Sui's expressions.

But now, looking at Wang Sui's reaction, he had a strange sense of déjà vu.

He had seen this reaction before.

That was—on Chen Ting's mother!
That was after Chen Ting's second sandplay therapy session ended. Chen's mother came to visit, and Nan Zhuren took the opportunity to have Chen Ting and her mother do a family therapy session. At that time, in order to elicit the contradictions in Chen's mother's cognition, Nan Zhuren repeatedly praised Chen Ting as a "good child".

The statement that "Chen Ting is a good child" further proves that "Chen's mother is a good mother," which brings satisfaction to Chen's mother.

At that time, Chen Ma's expression was almost exactly the same as Wang Sui's now!
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