Far from the common suicidal sentiment that “people will be better off without me!” the resulting trauma and grief can spread much wider and deeper than the suicidal person could ever have imagined.
Articles on: Psychotherapy Techniques
A Vital Therapy Principle
A therapeutic technique is only as effective as the human emotional or psychological principles it rests upon. The principle that anchoring attaches to is pattern matching, which can be extremely powerful – so it makes sense to form a technique or in fact many techniques around this basic principle of human experience.
5 Therapeutic Strategies for Treating Anorexia Nervosa
Anorexia has traditionally been seen as hard to treat. But there is hope. Of those who survive anorexia, 50% recover, 30% improve, and only 20% remain chronically ill. So people do recover from anorexia, or at least learn to live with it as it loosens its grip on them. And with better treatment options than […]
5 Golden Guidelines for Doing Therapy with Children
When working with children, we need to get to see the problem from the child’s perspective and communicate with them on their level. Here are five guidelines to help you work more effectively with children.
6 Steps to Treat Bulimia
Bulimia is a physical health issue as well as a mental health one. So what are some of the must-dos when treating bulimia?
How to Use Problem-Solving Therapy with Your Clients
All therapy is problem-solving therapy. Either we seek to help our clients ‘solve the problem’ by feeling and thinking differently about it, or we help them find ways to solve an actual practical problem (or both!).
How to Use Cognitive Restructuring with Your Therapy Clients
Cognitive restructuring consists of learning to identify and reframe troublesome cognitions. Here are four ways to help clients who suffer from limiting, but hidden, assumptions.
How to Help Your Clients Meet Their Missing Emotional Needs
Life can start to feel meaningless when our emotional needs fail to be met. When we feel empty, it’s because we are unfulfilled. Follow these tips to help your clients get more out of life.
Helping a Client Form Goals and Locate Resources: Transcript
Transcript of a live client session from Uncommon Practitioners TV with a client who is having relationship difficulties with her step-daughter.
The 4 Main Cognitive Distortions
When cognitive distortions and thinking errors coalesce into internal patterns about how the world works and who the self and other people fundamentally are, they form a narrative. Break that pattern with these techniques.
