…three: Teach self-kindness Externalizing a self-sabotaging emotional pattern, be it anger, jealousy, depression, or addiction, is a vital part of any therapist’s skill set. Ella showed maladaptive perfectionist tendencies. Perfectionists…
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How to Use Problem-Solving Therapy with Your Clients
Continue reading »…locking of attention, and difficulty withdrawing it, in addiction, obsession, and, of course, depression. Sometimes, this kind of locked attention on problems can prove to be worse than the problems…
How to Help Your Hair Pulling Clients
Continue reading »…She knew that trichotillomania is variously described as a habit, an addiction, even a facet of obsessive-compulsive disorder. She knew that it commonly starts in the teenage years (as it…
Research Roundup 21
Continue reading »…spending excessive time looking at distressing news about events like shootings, terrorism, and conspiracies online, sometimes to the extent that it becomes an addiction. A recent study out of Flinders…
Therapeutic First Aid: Step 1
Continue reading »…their needs, and they try to ameliorate that stress through the escapism of addiction (2). People develop panic attacks when they’re generally stressed. Emotional problems are caused by stress, but…
How A Clever Little Boy Can Help You Help People Quit Smoking
Continue reading »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…
How to Use Psychoeducation With Your Clients
Continue reading »…wellbeing can be restored. We might describe how an addiction can be seen as a kind of hijacking of the brain’s capacity to learn and develop (as I describe here),…
Working with Resistant Clients: 5 More Tried and Tested Tips
Continue reading »…and freedoms. We might talk about how the phobia or cigarette addiction or depression had been seeking to control the person and how hypnosis can help them become free. So…
Learn the Rewind Technique with Mark Tyrrell of Uncommon Knowledge
Continue reading »…client whose depression you just can’t lift, an addiction that just won’t shift, or anxiety that keeps coming back no matter what you do, it’s worth considering that a trauma…
Anni Casey, Natural Therapies Practitioner – Practitioner in Focus
Continue reading »…work. What problems/issues do you treat most frequently? With hypnotherapy: Weight loss, smoking, alcohol addiction Aromatherapy: Stress and exhaustion Energy healing: People wanting to clear their energy, let go of…
