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.
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Challenging Negative Thinking: Podcast 026
Continue reading »Working with low self esteem is much easier when you understand how it is warping your client’s thinking style.
Exception Questions in SFT: Podcast 025
Continue reading »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.
Setting Boundaries in Counselling and Therapy: Podcast 024
Continue reading »Setting boundaries with clients doesn’t come naturally to therapy practitioners. Empathy and wanting to help people is what brought you to this work, and for us it’s hard to be cruel to be kind.
Treating OCD with Hypnosis: Podcast 023
Continue reading »All OCD sufferers describe ‘spacing out’ while they perform their obsessive behaviour. This gives us a key insight into how to treat OCD.
Treating Anxiety: Podcast 022
Continue reading »Sometimes a large part of anxiety therapy is helping your client overcome the ‘feeling like a freak’ effect.
Reframing Depression Symptoms: Podcast 021
Continue reading »Depression often causes physical symptoms such as sleep disturbance, aches and pains, loss of sex drive and so on. Here’s how to reframe the 5 most common ones.
How to Motivate Smokers to Quit: Podcast 018
Continue reading »When smokers come for help quitting, they are not always powerfully motivated. Here are some ways to get them moving.
Understanding the Hypnotherapist Milton H Erickson: Podcast 017
Continue reading »When you read Milton H Erickson’s case studies, it can seem as if he was working on another plane entirely at times.
Setting Achievable Therapy Goals: Podcast 019
Continue reading »Therapy goals are great ways to give a client a sense of confidence and engage them in their therapy – as long as they do them!
