We’ve all had difficult clients, angrily resistant to your presence. Here’s one way I help mine meet their therapy goals.
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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 Use Surprise in Hypnosis Inductions
Hypnosis may not look like ‘hypnosis’. The ‘eyes wide and glassy’ look, lasting only a couple of seconds, may be just as receptive a state for new ideas to take root.
2 Weird Ways To Contact Hidden Parts Of The Human Mind
Have you heard of the ‘hidden observer’ deep within the human mind?
Hero Therapy: What It Is And How To Use It With Your Clients
By connecting with the core strengths of his hero, we reframed those memories from recollections of fear and helplessness to recollections of calmness and courage.
5 Loving Ways To Help Your Clients Back To Relationship Bliss
Some of your clients will be in the kind of relationships that can be saved, made whole again. That’s where you come in.
3 Psychotherapy Techniques That Identify Your Client’s Real Problem
When treating clients we can get hypnotized by detail, by the shape and colour of the person’s life, the minutiae of their issues – leaving us confused and overwhelmed.
Hypnosis And The Mind-Body Connection
Long gone are the days when it was assumed the mind and body were separate and distinct, that the thoughts and feelings of the mind had no or little direct effect on the workings of the body.
How To End Therapy With Your Clients
Terminating therapy isn’t about throwing clients out. It’s about setting clear guidelines and helping them be emotionally ready to end therapy.
3 Therapy Techniques That Help Your Clients Transcend Their Labels
It appeared that Kennedy had himself fundamentally flagged as having alcoholism rather than as having conquered alcoholism.
4 Simple Steps That Boost Your Therapy Clients’ Willpower
Weight loss, quitting smoking, breaking bad habits and starting new positive ones: so many therapy goals involve willpower.
