A look at recent research that explores the many ways humans can feel better.
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If you are a therapist or coach of any persuasion; counsellor, psychotherapist, hypnotherapist, life coach, bodyworker, in fact anyone who works in the helping professions, you will glean valuable, actionable ideas, tips and techniques from Clear Thinking, my free therapy techniques newsletter.
In it you'll find a wide range of topics including solution focused therapy approaches, cognitive-behavioural therapy techniques, ideas from DBT, hypnotherapy, counselling and even the occasional philosophical piece. I've been treating people with psychotherapy for more than 30 years and I've drawn what I find useful from many fields. I hope you find it helps you in your practice too, whatever flavour of helper you are.
3 Relationship-Reinforcing CBT Techniques for Jealousy
Thought and imagination disorders tend to produce and maintain the behavioural clusters associated with jealousy, such as over monitoring, constant reassurance seeking, angry outbursts, and attempts to control what the partner does. So with all this in mind, here a few approaches we can use with our jealous clients.
How to Deal With Client Secondary Gains
During a Q-and-A call, I discuss what to do when a client may believe, on one level, that they want to get better, but then seems to put up roadblocks.
5 Sleep-Promoting CBT Techniques for Insomnia
It’s often the reaction to not sleeping, the worry, even anticipatory anxiety, that drives away the very thing we need.
Research Roundup 7: Evening Stress, Lack of Sleep and Anger, Social Media and Body Image, the Antidepressant Effects of Skype, and Children’s Imaginary Worlds
We are a culture that likes to dissect minutely but doesn’t always get a sense of the grand totality of what we study. Research Roundup presents findings of recent research in context to help us all gain perspective.
3 Loneliness-Busting CBT Techniques for Social Anxiety
These cognitive behavioural therapy strategies can help clients move past limiting fears and feel more socially comfortable.
How to Treat Compulsive Shopping
It’s useful to ask when the out-of-control spending began and what, if anything, changed during that time. So often a problem pattern is a sloppy and unconscious way of trying to meet a primal emotional need.
3 Supportive Strategies for Strengthening the Therapeutic Alliance
The therapeutic alliance is a base from which therapy can happen. And in order for that base to develop, we need to be a certain way for our clients.
Why Only Listening Is Not Always Enough
External discipline, when required, within a supportive environment may be the primer for the development of self-discipline.
The Healing History of Therapeutic Storytelling
Stories show life as it might be, should be, shouldn’t be, never could be. Basic social values, skills, and wisdoms all show up in stories, but so do all sorts of other things, on many different levels.
