Thoughts From a Therapist
Therapy Explained, Simplified, and Un-Jargoned
The ‘Therapy explained, simplified, and un-jargoned’ category contains posts which will explain why a given therapeutic intervention is used and how it is designed to help you.
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Why Does My ADHD Make Me So Anxious? The Four Stages of a Trigger in a Branching Mind
ADHD anxiety is rarely one spike. A branching mind turns a single trigger into many, and the thinking meant to help blocks the contact…
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Is My Job to Make You Feel Better?
Sometimes therapy is meant to settle the nervous system. Sometimes it’s meant to challenge it. The harder work is recognizing which one you came…
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Using Immediacy in Therapy | Staying With Experience When the Mind Moves On
Immediacy in therapy brings attention back to the client’s present-moment experience—especially when the pull to move past emotion and into explanation begins to take…
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Somatic Descent Into the Hidden Narrative: A Clinical Vignette about Anger and Grief
She came into therapy with a sharp, immediate reaction whenever the subject of suicide emerged. Her face tightened. Her posture stiffened. The anger arrived…
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Self of the Therapist: Core Dimensions
The content explores various dimensions influencing therapeutic relationships, emphasizing the impact of personal relationships, attachment styles, communication, and cultural values. It highlights the integration…
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Interventions in Relational Counseling
Relational therapy utilizes various acronym-based models to guide therapists. It emphasizes the importance of integrating different theoretical approaches for effective interventions, highlighting key intervention…
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Bottom Up and Top Down interventions to support regulation
In this post we will be exploring what people mean by ‘bottom up” and “top down” interventions and how you can use this information…
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The thoughts, emotions, and behaviors triangle
The Diagram below can be used to understand the interconnectedness of thoughts, emotions and behaviors. Additionally the diagram gives an easy to understand explanation…
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Adlerian psychotherapy – an overview
In this post I will be giving an overview of Adlerian psychotherapy, which was one of the first theories in the field.
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What is a systemic approach in psychotherapy? Family systems theory intervention
The major difference between Family therapy and individual therapy is something called systems theory… therapist using such an approach are said to look at…
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Dialectics – open your mind and balance will occur naturally
Quick summary: There are many different definitions of what “dialectic” means and most are relatively related while others are a bit different (the Hindu…
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What are triggers?
What are triggers? Learn how cues activate automatic protective responses, why reactions can feel disproportionate, and how therapy creates more choice.
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Cognitive Behavioral Therapy simplified
Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is based on the idea that emotions affect behaviors and thoughts, thoughts affect emotions and behaviors, and behaviors affect emotions…
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Immediacy | tips for therapists | How to use immediacy | experiential techniques
Quick summary: a quick set of tips for therapists on using immediacy in therapy.
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Why should I focus on my Breathing? – Worry reduction.
Quick summary –Normally breathing is something which is done automatically – you don’t think about breathing it just happens. When you intentionally focus on…
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Why some fail to lose Weight – Restraint theory
Quick Summary: Restraint theory suggests that restrictive diets lead to failure and in some cases actually increase weight gain. The theory was developed after…
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Jung’s Theory of Synchronicity, Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
Quick summary: I have been reading a great book titled the ‘Tao of Psychology’ which spends a good deal of time explaining Jung’s theory…
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Support group for teens with type 1 diabetes
Quick summary: Research has shown that support groups for teens with type one diabetes are extremely beneficial to the participants overall well-being. In fact,…
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