…build up a sense of a frightening future if they continue to be enslaved to the addiction years down the line. We may then link that fear to the impulse…
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4 Effective Therapy Techniques For Treating OCD
Continue reading »…watch instead? But like all repetitive behaviours, the compulsion may start to function like any other addiction. The OCD sufferer may feel they have to do increasingly more of their…
‘Life Needs Assessment’ Worksheet: Unveiling Fundamental Emotional and Physical Needs
Continue reading »…outlined in Human Givens psychology, neglecting these needs can lead to serious conditions, such as anxiety, depression, and addiction. The ‘Life Needs Assessment’ Worksheet is a tool for therapists and…
3 Instantly Calming CBT Techniques for Anxiety
Continue reading »…them meet their innate needs. The insightful video below clearly shows how a need-meeting environment protects against chemical addiction and aids happiness and fulfilment. As human beings, we have innate…
Help Your Clients Enjoy Success When it Comes
Continue reading »…happy living in our clients. While those who come to us remain locked in trauma, haunted by depression, or tyrannized by addiction, they are captive to ‘third world problems’ even…
Treating the Angry Client
Continue reading »…out, if any thought is involved at all. But the wider context (this is your best friend’s wedding!) may not be appreciated. Like any addiction, chronic anger seems to promise…
Why There’s No Such Thing as Hypnotherapy
Continue reading »…and even addiction – because these conditions are all at least partly hypnotic in nature. They all focus the mind narrowly and produce unconsciously conditioned responses. Hypnosis is not a…
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Safety
Continue reading »…chronic washing, checking or counting; flashbacks; panic attacks; addiction to alcohol or opiates and ‘comfort eating‘ are all ways in which the unconscious mind may desperately seek a sense of…
How to Integrate Hypnosis Into a CBT Session
Continue reading »…obsession, addiction, and jealousy all narrow our focus of attention, just as any hypnotic induction does. These are hypnotic phenomena, no doubt about it. Addicts and OCD clients talk about…
How to Help Smokers Escape Their Doomed Romance with Cigarettes
Continue reading »…Smokers look at me strangely when I liken their smoking addiction to a doomed romance with a charming abuser. But it gets them thinking … and often gets them…
