Help free your clients from unhelpful depressive thought patterns by working with their unconscious and conscious minds.
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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.
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.
Treating the Yo-Yo Dieter
Help your clients reach a stable, sustainable weight with these five techniques.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Intimacy
Part four in the series explores how the need for love and intimacy can lead to stalking, accepting abuse and impossible relationships.
Research Roundup 3: Writing Away Worries, Sleep Deprivation for Depression, and More
Did you know your brain registers familiar faces, even if you don’t? A peek at five psychological studies and their relationships to everyday life.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Control
Part three of the series explores the need for control and how it can betray us when it is met in unhealthy ways.
How to Work With Different Client Personality Types
We can, and even must, use a person’s character and personality to help them thrive. Here are three ways to help you see your client clearly so you can work with them effectively.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Safety
Part two of the series explores the inherent human need to feel safe and secure and shows how it can lead those desperate enough into unsafe situations.
How to Spot and Treat Emotional Eating
Emotional eating is a pattern that can be learned in childhood or develop when our human needs are not being met. Here are five ways to disrupt this unhealthy pattern.
