Part three of the series explores the need for control and how it can betray us when it is met in unhealthy ways.
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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.
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Attention
Why do otherwise rational human beings do crazy things? This series on the dark side of human emotional needs seeks to answer just this question, and to show you how you can use this understanding to help your clients, enrich the lives of those around you, and, most importantly, make sure you are meeting your […]
Research Roundup 2: Sleep, Smartphones and Relationship Insecurity
How do we perceive immorality? How does our sense of smell affect our metabolism? I look at these questions and more as I present my thoughts on five current psychological studies.
Uncovering Hidden Trauma
Here are five cases from my own records in which trauma was found to be driving the current problem despite initially not being obvious.
“Take it Easy on Yourself!”
When a client blames themselves for everything, we can help them see there are other reasons why something might occur. Here are five ways to stop your client self-blaming.
Treating Psychological Impotence
Here are 5 ways to treat psychological blocks at the root of sexual dysfunction.
How to Build Better Boundaries
The consequences of never stating needs, ideas, or demands is a life of frustration and learned helplessness. Here are five ways to help your clients be more assertive.
