Why you sometimes want your client to think the worst and how it helped Peter become a better public speaker.
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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.
4 Ways to Capture Your Client’s Attention
Why you need to grab your client’s attention if you’re going to be able to help them and how to do so quickly.
What would make the biggest difference to your practice this year?
Mark and Roger’s fireside chat for the New Year. Tell them how they can help you.
3 Ways to Ask Exception Questions in Therapy
How solution focused questions helped Jeremy use swimming to wash smoking out of his life forever. And help your clients learn not to have their problem.
3 Ways to Communicate Client Responsibility in Therapy
Some clients can adopt a deep passivity about their lives, expecting and waiting for things to be done to and done for them.
“I should have known a man who could read my mind could help me”
Therapy is as much an art as a science. But where does the artistry come from? It comes only when we have honed our therapeutic and interpersonal skills and knowledge – through experience, not just theory – to the point where the unconscious mind is free to work intuitively.
Deconstructing Double Binds
3 techniques for helping clients escape Catch-22, no-win, psychological double binds.
Using Tasks to Disrupt Problem Patterns
You may already be familiar with the idea of giving your clients ‘homework’ to do between sessions. Therapists like Milton Erickson and Jay Haley took this a step further, famously assigning behavioural tasks that could make a massive difference to their clients – and yours.
Working with Resistant Clients: 3 Tried and Tested Tips
What feeling like pushing a client out the window taught me about dealing with resistance in therapy.
3 Ways to Use Classical Conditioning in Therapy and Counselling
Well into adulthood, my mouth would water whenever I heard a key turning in a lock. You may be wondering what on earth happened to me! The answer is, nothing particularly odd. But it’s why I’m a chocaholic…
