When a client is unresponsive to therapy, it can feel deflating. Here are five ways to think outside the box and regain your therapeutic motivation.
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The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Mind and Body
The connection between the body and mind mean mental and physical health cannot be disentangled, especially with it comes to meeting our Primal Human Needs.
The Power of Questions
Questions have an amazing ability to disrupt toxic thought patterns and widen perspectives. Here are 17 really useful solution-focused questions you can use with clients.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Challenge
What can a lack of meaningful creative challenge do to people? Part seven in this series explores the detrimental effects of this unfulfilled need.
Research Roundup 4: Cancer and PTSD, Relationship Insecurity, and More
A cancer diagnosis can cause PTSD, and poor social skills can be physically harmful. These issues and more are explored in this look at recent research.
3 Vital CBT Techniques for OCD
Help clients break free from the compulsions controlling them with these CBT techniques for obsessive compulsive disorder.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Status
Wanting to be recognized can easily morph from a need to a demanding, all-consuming greed. So why is the drive for status so strong?
Two Vital CBT Techniques I Always Use for Depression
Help free your clients from unhelpful depressive thought patterns by working with their unconscious and conscious minds.
How to Help the Client Who Doesn’t Want Therapy
Arguing against a reluctant client will push them further away. Follow these reframing tips to help them see the benefits therapy can bring.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Connection
Part five in the series explores our innate human desire for a sense of community and how it can work against us.
