It’s important to be solution-focused with our clients. They need and deserve that from us. But we know that forcing ‘positive thinking’ upon resistant clients who don’t feel positive can clash with a negatively biased person’s beliefs. Here are three of the ways you can use indirect but powerful communication with any client.
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Treating Trauma That Hasn’t Happened Yet
Listen to this audio excerpt where I describe what to do when a client has traumatized themselves through their imagination.
Top 10 CBT Worksheets Websites
Finding clinically-sound, easy-to-access CBT worksheets can be the therapist’s challenge. Here’s a list of ten of the best CBT resource sites for you to use as a reference point for your practice.
How Not to Make a Bad Situation Worse
Some of our clients are essentially balanced, happy, productive people when circumstances are fine. But when they’re going through a terrible time, it’s only natural that their ability to meet their needs is compromised.
Knowing Without Knowing: The Conscious / Unconscious Split
Delve into cognitive dissonance, the hidden observer, trance logic and more in this free video from our Uncommon Psychotherapy course.
3 Instantly Calming CBT Techniques for Anxiety
CBT techniques can be useful for less severe anxiety conditions, when used with skilled approaches that work directly to calm feelings. Here are three easily applicable ways we can focus on the thinking and behaving part of a person to give them control back.
“Do you have any advice for a therapist doing her first session?”
My quick advice for a new therapist with perfectionist tendencies who is nervous about seeing her first client.
Coaches Versus Therapists
The differences and similarities between life coaching and therapy, and what practitioners in each discipline can learn from the other.
Why There’s No Such Thing as Hypnotherapy
As hypnotherapists we are working with an important and often overlooked part of the human being. Hypnosis doesn’t have to be obvious. It doesn’t even have to be intentional! But it needs to be understood, and it needs to be harnessed for benefit.
My 10 Favourite Therapy Books
Books are indispensable for developing a thorough understanding of the fundamentals of psychology and even some neurology – and here are my top ten therapy books that have inspired me.
