Sometimes there are buzzwords in the self-help field, some that come and go and some that stick around. When the late John Bradshaw was around, everybody seemingly needed to refer to their ‘family of origin’ issues and specifically to address their ‘inner child’ in order to self actualise. Therapy became ‘inner child’ centred in many […]
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In this podcast interview I chat with Andrew Thomas about his work in developing the Rainbow Map. You will resonate with this material if you are interested in Stephen Porges’s Polyvagal Theory, Dan Seigel’s Window of Tolerance, the late Francine Shapiro’s work on developing eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR), Pat Ogden’s work on Sensorimotor
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I have always been intrigued with the meaning of the word ‘treatment’ in the context of counselling and psychotherapy. People seeking help will often ask what the sessions will comprise of and how long the work will last. Indeed they might also ask, even in the first session, whether or not the work has actually
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Do you find yourself over-focused on caring for another, such as fixing, controlling, pleasing, and/or conflict-avoiding in your relationships? Are you struggling to leave an abusive relationship? Are you too afraid to make necessary changes in your relationship in spite of being unhappy? If the answer is yes to these aforementioned questions then you may
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There are lots of reasons for making psychological mistakes when trading in financial markets. The recent lock-down experience has witnessed an explosion in the number of day traders seeking to capitalise on increasingly volatile markets in addition to others seeking to make financial trading a source of additional income or as a means of changing
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Today I interviewed Scott Miller about what works in counselling and psychotherapeutic practice and how to boost one’s effectiveness as a practitioner. Scott is the founder of international consortium of clinicians, researchers, and educators (ICCE), which is dedicated to promoting excellence in behavioural health. He is the author of many books, the most recent one
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I recently had the pleasure of chatting with Dr Rob McNeilly from Hobart, Tazmania about learning hypnosis and the work of Milton Erickson. Rob founded the CET in l988 to introduce Ericksonian Hypnosis and the solution oriented approach to hypnosis, counselling and coaching in Australia. He is co-author, with Jenny Brown, of Healing With Words and his
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The term sexual anorexia is one (amongst many) that causes a fair bit of conflicting discussion in the addiction treatment and therapy field. For some the term trivialises the more serious eating disorder conditions by seeking to give credibility to a behavioural pattern that is not pathological. For others the two conditions share similar characteristics
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COVID-19 Update: I will now be offering all clients the option to meet online via video conferencing software rather than face to face. This is in response to the World Health Organization confirming the Coronavirus as a pandemic, and to follow the guidance issued by the NHS and the UK Government relating to social distancing.
These are crazy times. Amidst the widening economic, social and health crisis associated with the spread of the COVID-19 disease there has been a lot of hysterical reports in the media about so-called panic buying in the shops and how people are acting irrationally on the high street. I wonder whether such reporting is actually proving
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