Is Your Therapy Working as it Should?
Not all therapies produce the results you want. How good is yours?
View ArticleThe New Date Night: Dinner and...Therapy?
With date nights occurring so rarely, many couples want to take advantage of their limited time together. They may want to talk, but forget how. Therapy can provide a safe, sympathetic and constructive...
View ArticleTrauma Informed Assessments- Part 6
Learn how to pace yourself during a 'trauma informed' assessment by asking your client the following questions.
View ArticleWhy Psychologists Never Give a Straight Answer
Although I understand people’s exasperation with psychologists’ inability to give a straight answer to a seemingly simple question, there is nothing we can actually do about it. Here's why:
View ArticleLight Therapy Can Help Treat Depression Year-Round
A new study reports that bright light therapy can help treat both seasonal and nonseasonal depression.
View ArticleFive Questions to Ask Your Therapist
Calls to mental health clinics tend to increase during the stressful holiday months. If you are planning to seek therapy, consider reviewing these five important topics to address with your clinician...
View ArticleWhat Can Wounded Storytellers Teach Us?
Many memoirs are based on the author's experience with illness, trauma or the loss of a loved one. Narrative writing is one way to make sense of difficult times. Writing also facilitates reflection on...
View ArticleA Rose by Any Other Name: Is All Pain the Same?
Modern medical approaches to chronic pain have not been dramatically successful. Therefore it is generally assumed that chronic pain will never go away, so the best we can do is to cope with it....
View ArticleBeing Your Own Therapist
Being a good therapist to yourself means balancing tough love and soft love, brutal honesty with careful consideration.
View ArticleThe Dirty Little (Sex) Secret of Therapy
Patients should be safe assuming that therapists understand sex as it actually is, don't believe discredited myths, and can discuss anything.
View ArticleStandard Interpretations in Psychotherapy
Psychotherapists who cannot think of something sensible to say sometimes make facile interpretations which do not apply to any particular patient and which are, for the most part, wrong.
View ArticleImagination in Action: Interview With Shaun McNiff
Imagination in action is about accepting the struggles, mistakes and failures and realizing that they are all part of the challenging process of personal transformation. Put down that coloring book and...
View ArticlePressures on Your Therapist Not to Be Psychologically-Minded
A psychologically-minded therapist is to mainstream psychology like a person practicing a forbidden religion.
View ArticleThe Existential Crisis of Birdman
Birdman embodies the struggle to discover your authentic identity.
View ArticleWhen Adults Struggle With Their Relationships
Are sibling relationships getting you down this time of year?
View ArticleSelf Awareness
Much of counselling and coaching, as well as education and therapy is about increasing self awareness. It is argued that self awareness and understanding is essential for happiness, health and well...
View ArticleTrauma Informed Assessments - Part 7
What you need to do when clients prematurely reveal graphic details of their abuse or neglect experiences.
View ArticleThank You! Parisian PhD Candidate Ludvig Levasseur!
On occasion, we receive requests from PhD candidates for assistance in their research regarding time perspective theory and therapy. Last week, one such candidate emailed with a request that opened our...
View ArticleUsing a Couples Therapy Group to Build Your Best Marriage
Four couples work to build optimal lives through monthly group psychotherapy for couples.
View ArticleCompassion After Loss
It says a lot about me that I really, really looked forward to a six-and-a-half hour training on grief after suicide.
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