…conditions such as depression, anxiety or addiction (1) – and it may even make some conditions get worse. The ‘toxic effect’ of some therapeutic approaches may be because they often…
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The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Connection
Continue reading »…addict to stop taking drugs, we may also be asking them to forgo their whole community or even sense of purpose. The ‘addiction’ may be to the group or lifestyle…
How To Encourage Post-Traumatic Growth In Your Clients
Continue reading »…the weakening effect may only be temporary as the person comes through it and resumes gaining in strength. It’s vital to help our clients lift depression and overcome addiction and…
How to Use Time Travel to Maximize Client Motivation
Continue reading »…of behaviour by age progression Some symptomatic trance states are very immediate, letting realistic concepts of the past and future slip away. Addiction is one such emotional trance state. The…
How to Help Your Stigmatized Mental Health Clients
Continue reading »…the face of it, we seem to be living in an era of openness around mental health. Celebrities share their stories of anxiety, addiction, and depression. People generally understand when…
Working with the Angry Child: A Short Case Study
Continue reading »…around? You could even rehearse with him standing up to that anger. So just as we might with an addiction, we can help detach him from the anger so that…
How Not to Make a Bad Situation Worse
Continue reading »…deal with adversity, or led them to harmful behaviour patterns. The fundamental problem for people prone to depression, low self-esteem, anger, and addiction is that they have come to respond…
The Dark Side of Your Emotional Needs – Intimacy
Continue reading »…smoking and other addictions. We can see addiction as a kind of abusive relationship which nevertheless feels intimate and therefore hard to let go. When thinking about intimacy it’s important…
Treating the Client Who is Codependent in Their Relationship
Continue reading »…a friend unwittingly or otherwise encourages: addiction feckless irresponsibility and immaturity emotional problems such as social anxiety or even depression underachievement.1 There is also usually a sense of the ‘carer’…
3 Relapse Prevention Strategies For Substance Abuse Therapy (Including Smoking Cessation)
Continue reading »…about your addiction, which implies that it is a central and immutable part of them, talk in terms of that behaviour. The word ‘that’ indicates it is separate from them,…
