If you see your role as a therapist as being a psycho-educator then good handouts are essential. Handouts help clients remember important details and they reinforce learning. Powerful therapy is therapy that teaches and equips clients to create the lives they desire....
The body provides a wonderful signaling system that, if listened to, can help clients learn about their symptoms and solutions. Body awareness is an important tool for clients to utilize. Psychotherapists can encourage clients to attend to the messages their bodies...
It’s really okay to interrupt your psychotherapy clients. It’s actually very helpful. There are many benefits in stopping limiting stories and redirecting clients to speak in ways that open possibilities. People can learn to see that how they define things confines...
Psychotherapy clients can learn to forgive themselves for errors and imperfections. Therapist can model non-judgmental attitudes and invite their clients to step into a position of gentleness and kindness toward themselves. There are clear steps counselors and...
In counseling and psychotherapy it is important to keep the focus on the solutions rather than the problems. Rehearsing, reviewing, and retelling the stories of problems can derail the more powerful therapy work of identifying and stepping towards solutions. Help your...
Why questions in psychotherapy often lead clients to dead-ends and places where answers cannot be found. When working with clients in counseling and therapy redirect them to ask more powerful questions and, as a result, bring about more therapeutic change. It’s not...