Sometimes when you talk about quitting smoking to a smoker, you see a look of terror (or defiance!) flit across their features – even if they have explicitly asked for help in quitting.
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3 Simple Ways To Reframe Your Client’s Negative Bias
Depression gets us using a strictly negative bias. Under its baleful influence, anything ‘good’ that happens is interpreted as simply the ‘exception that proves the negative rule’. Here’s how to reframe that toxic outlook.
How to Help Your Client Beat ‘Learned Helplessness’
Feeling helpless when you’re not, because you were helpless in the past, is known as ‘learned helplessness’
How To Boost Your Personal Power In Two Minutes (A Quick Psychology Tip)
What we do with our bodies during the day has direct and immediate effects on our psychology – and on our life as a whole.
Build Your Client A Roadmap Out Of Depression (4 Quick Psychotherapy Techniques)
A depressed client may (quite naturally) want to tell you all about their depression, but to really begin working with them you’ll need to discover where they actually want to go in positive terms.
1 Strange Swift Way To Help Your Difficult Clients Really Want To Change
We’ve all had difficult clients, angrily resistant to your presence. Here’s one way I help mine meet their therapy goals.
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.
