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...move on." Indeed, fed up with managed care and the constraints of holding sessions at the office, some therapists are throwing out their couches to become coaches. Last month 75 counselors paid $145 apiece to gather in a Columbus, Ohio, hotel to hear coach Ben Dean, a trained psychologist, talk about the virtues of becoming a coach. "Coaching is a train that's leaving the station with or without us," he said. "It lets us stay involved in helping good people make transformative change but thankfully takes the health-care dollar out of the picture...
...This idea of 'launching' our children is a purely American concept," notes psychologist Pauline Boss, author of Ambiguous Loss. "We don't really launch our kids, as if into outer space: they stay connected. Now that kids often move far away," she adds, "leaving stuff with parents can be an unconscious way to maintain their roots...
Children may also react negatively if the room remains but has been stripped of their presence. Two years after Dena Cowan Klapperich, 37, a clinical psychologist in Lindenhurst, Ill., had left home to live with her boyfriend, her mother, U.C. Berkeley psychologist Carolyn Cowan, converted Dena's old room to an office. "The first time she came over after that, she couldn't walk in there," Cowan recalls...
...feeling of being "shunted aside or pushed out" when the room is taken over is common, notes Sara Moss Herz, a psychologist in Westport, Conn.--even for children embarked on independent lives. "There's still that fantasy that you can go back and do it right," she explains. "If there's an office or guest room there, that's pretty concrete evidence that life has moved...
...what's a parent to do? Preserve the room as a shrine? Store the stuff forever? Bear in mind, advises William Pinsof, a psychologist and president of the Family Institute at Northwestern University, that parents may also benefit emotionally from having their kids' old things around: "It makes the nest a little less empty...