Download or read book Starting Therapy written by Faith Freed and published by . This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Curious about therapy? Get oriented and comfortable before you begin. Psychotherapist and author Faith Freed (LMFT) believes that therapy benefits anyone brave and wise enough to begin. In this down-to-earth book, she shares her first-hand knowledge and clinical experience to send you off with confidence. Starting Therapy is an easy-to-read guide for anyone new to therapy or eager to learn more about it. It makes sense that you'd want to know what you're signing up for before your first session. This book answers your questions before you hit the couch. -Decide with more certainty whether therapy is for you -Find a therapist and discern the right fit -Feel prepared for your first session and those to follow -Get the most value out of the time you invest -Glimpse what therapy is really like from actual case examples -Learn what's expected of you and much more. Starting Therapy is a concise-yet-comprehensive guide that gets you primed and ready for your first session and beyond. If you like to look before you leap, you'll love this preview and primer. This practical guide offers loads of helpful tips to make you feel at ease, even before you begin treatment. Read this jargon-free, user-friendly book and be thoroughly prepared for the life enhancing adventure of psychotherapy. Author and licensed psychotherapist (LMFT) Faith Freed brings over a decade of experience in the San Francisco Bay Area and two advanced degrees to her new private practice in downtown Santa Barbara. She collaborates with clients to know themselves better, improve their relationships, and reveal game-changing insights. Her specialties include personal growth, creativity, love, spirituality, anxiety, and EMDR. Find out more at FaithFreed.com.
Download or read book What Is Psychotherapy written by The School of Life and published by School of Life. This book was released on 2018 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An in-depth look at a much misunderstood practice, offering a fresh viewpoint on how this science can be a universally effective route to our better selves.
Download or read book TIP 35 Enhancing Motivation for Change in Substance Use Disorder Treatment Updated 2019 written by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Motivation is key to substance use behavior change. Counselors can support clients' movement toward positive changes in their substance use by identifying and enhancing motivation that already exists. Motivational approaches are based on the principles of person-centered counseling. Counselors' use of empathy, not authority and power, is key to enhancing clients' motivation to change. Clients are experts in their own recovery from SUDs. Counselors should engage them in collaborative partnerships. Ambivalence about change is normal. Resistance to change is an expression of ambivalence about change, not a client trait or characteristic. Confrontational approaches increase client resistance and discord in the counseling relationship. Motivational approaches explore ambivalence in a nonjudgmental and compassionate way.
Download or read book Getting the Best Start in Therapy written by Mamood Ahmad - Registered Psychotherapist (UKCP) and published by . This book was released on 2018-10-23 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Therapy, sometimes called counselling or psychotherapy, can and does change lives. However, therapy is no magic pill - it can be confusing, lengthy, difficult, painful, energy draining, and an expensive endeavour.For consumers, your role in therapy is really important, so much so that that research validates that you play the biggest part in how well therapy works. This book aims to empower your beginning in therapy, by helping you feel confident about therapy, how and why it helps, how to get started, what to watch out for, and how to make the most of your therapy. I hope this book provides you with the tools needed to be successful in your therapeutic journey.For therapists and trainee therapists many parts of this book will be familiar. However, the material here is an accumulation of research and my personal experience of clients, about their questions and concerns as they begin therapy. These concerns are addressed throughout this book and I hope they will be provide a source for reflection and client centred adaptation in attuning to what consumers may need.Here are some of the biggest questions addressed in this book, if you are entering therapy you may well be asking some of these questions: *What is therapy? What is it like? How can this possibly work? You may be confused about how or why therapy would work as it appears to be "just talking".*Is therapy going to work for me? Is it really an option? How do I navigate the minefield of therapy approaches, options and therapists available? Am I making the right choices?*How will I know I am working with a good therapist who is competent and will be able to help and keep me safe?*What can I expect when beginning therapy? What can I do to prepare and what do I need to be aware of when contracting for therapy? What if the therapist does not want to work with me? What can I do to make the best of therapy? What is my role?*Performance, Safety and Vulnerability concerns. Am I going to be judged? And not understood or told I'm wrong? What if I don't perform well? What if I can't say what I need to say? What can I do if I find it hard to be vulnerable? What if I don't want to talk about something? How do I deal with the proximity intimacy of face to face setting and the embarrassment of going to therapy?*Will I be safe? How confidential is confidential? What if I am part of a legal trial? Or I want to have records kept of what I talk about? Will I or someone I know get into trouble? What are my rights in therapy?*How is therapy going to impact my life? Financially, time, effort, my wellbeing and relationships? How can I reduce the financial cost of going to therapy?*How can I support someone who is in therapy? Does it matter that the therapist has recovered from similar problems to me? Or from the same cultural or similar beliefs e.g. spirituality.*Does the therapist gender, age, and how much they charge matter? Should I work with a trainee? How come I keep finding the "wrong" therapist?Any great adventure requires solid preparatory work and tools. I hope this resource will be that for you. Once you begin your journey you may well benefit from other tools and skills. This is the first book of the "Empowering your therapy" series. In later parts of this series I will demonstrate how the healing journey works, what you can reflect and work upon during the process, how to develop skills for therapy as well as a comprehensive view of client matters that arise during the process. "Easy to read for clients and therapists. I will definitely recommend this to all my clients and therapists".Sam Jamal - MBACP BACP Registered Counsellor"Now I get what what therapy is about and why it has been faltering"Andrew P (Coaching client)
Download or read book The Gift of Therapy written by Irvin Yalom and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-05-21 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Acclaimed author and renowned psychiatrist Irvin D. Yalom distills thirty-five years of psychotherapy wisdom into one brilliant volume. The culmination of master psychiatrist Dr. Irvin D. Yalom’s more than thirty-five years in clinical practice, The Gift of Therapy is a remarkable and essential guidebook that illustrates through real case studies how patients and therapists alike can get the most out of therapy. The bestselling author of Love’s Executioner shares his uniquely fresh approach and the valuable insights he has gained—presented as eighty-five personal and provocative “tips for beginner therapists,” including: •Let the patient matter to you •Acknowledge your errors •Create a new therapy for each patient •Do home visits •(Almost) never make decisions for the patient •Freud was not always wrong A book aimed at enriching the therapeutic process for a new generation of patients and counselors, Yalom’s Gift of Therapy is an entertaining, informative, and insightful read for anyone with an interest in the subject.
Download or read book The Phases and Skills of a Counseling Session written by Linda Duncan and published by . This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is intended for graduate and undergraduate students majoring in counseling, social work, counseling psychology, and human services as well seasoned therapists. It is designed as a primary textbook for pre-practicum and practicum courses, although it is helpful to therapists at any point in their career. Unlike most existing resources, this guide provides a means to conceptualize an entire counseling session from start to finish and then implement the concept through basic and advanced skills. Its main thrust is to show how and through what means a counseling session develops. It describes the fundamental structure of a session as consisting of four phases-Initial, Early Exploration, Working, and Final. Several features set this text apart from other texts on counseling skills. Not least is the simplicity with which it deconstructs the difficult process of counseling, so that students and therapists can read it, follow its instructions, and feel confident in their ability to conduct counseling sessions. A key highlight is that the text gives special attention to exploring emotion, because working with emotion presents unique challenges at every phase. In addition, the text covers interventions for specific concerns, such as helping clients resolve internal conflicts. Finally, every phase and skill is reinforced with ample exercises for practice.
Download or read book A Beginner s Guide to Cognitive Analytic Therapy written by Sarah Craven-Staines and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-07-09 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text provides an accessible, reader-friendly guide to conducting Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) on a one-to-one basis, developed in partnership with service users who have lived experience of CAT. The book will cover the applications of CAT in clinical practice including: assessment; introducing CAT; the main concepts and how to build a therapeutic relationship; mapping; the middle phase and the integration of other models; monitoring; developing exits; the ending and saying goodbye. Grounded in CAT theory, the content will be ordered sequentially, as one would conduct the therapy, and will feature first-hand accounts from CAT-experienced service users including their own perspectives on the model and the impact it had on their wellbeing. A straightforward, beginner’s introduction to practicing CAT, this book will be useful for trainee practitioners, assistant and trainee clinical/counselling psychologists, and those practising CAT-informed therapy in supervision.
Download or read book The Happiness Trap written by Russ Harris and published by Exisle Publishing. This book was released on 2013 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A guide to ACT: the revolutionary mindfulness-based program for reducing stress, overcoming fear, and finding fulfilment – now updated. International bestseller, 'The Happiness Trap', has been published in over thirty countries and twenty-two languages. NOW UPDATED. Popular ideas about happiness are misleading, inaccurate, and are directly contributing to our current epidemic of stress, anxiety and depression. And unfortunately, popular psychological approaches are making it even worse! In this easy-to-read, practical and empowering self-help book, Dr Russ Harries, reveals how millions of people are unwittingly caught in the 'The Happiness Trap', where the more they strive for happiness the more they suffer in the long term. He then provides an effective means to escape through the insights and techniques of ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy), a groundbreaking new approach based on mindfulness skills. By clarifying your values and developing mindfulness (a technique for living fully in the present moment), ACT helps you escape the happiness trap and find true satisfaction in life. Mindfulness skills are easy to learn and will rapidly and effectively help you to reduce stress, enhance performance, manage emotions, improve health, increase vitality, and generally change your life for the better. The book provides scientifically proven techniques to: reduce stress and worry; rise above fear, doubt and insecurity; handle painful thoughts and feelings far more effectively; break self-defeating habits; improve performance and find fulfilment in your work; build more satisfying relationships; and, create a rich, full and meaningful life.
Download or read book Ready to Talk written by Mary Sanger and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-31 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how therapy can help you create the life you desire. Ready to Talk: A Companion Guide to Psychotherapy is a hands-on guide for anyone currently engaged in psychotherapy or considering it for the first time. It's also well-suited for those who've tried psychotherapy in the past but were dissatisfied with results. As an experienced psychotherapist, author Mary Sanger has often heard questions such as, "How does therapy work?" and "How long will I need to be in therapy?" Of course, the answers are different for everyone but Sanger recognized in her own practice that her clients could not only enhance but also expedite their therapy if they had ongoing access to some basic, pragmatic information about how the therapeutic process works. In straightforward language and an easy-to-read format, Sanger explains how one's past may inform one's present, but that it doesn't have to rule it. Essentially, each of us is the author of our own story. Ready to Talk helps you get the most out of therapy as quickly as possible. In Ready to Talk, Sanger discusses in detail the difference between simply "feeling better" (which frequently occurs in the early stages of therapy) and "getting better" (which creates lasting positive changes but requires commitment and regular client participation). With an emphasis on the Family Systems Theory developed by Dr. Murray Bowen, Sanger streamlines the process of knowing and understanding the basic self - providing questionnaires, client examples and interactive exercises that give the therapeutic client opportunities to "do the work" between sessions as well as thoughtfully prepare for appointments so that the client can to make the most of them. Readers will learn how to challenge current beliefs that are no longer serving them well, recognize and change unhelpful thought patterns and self-defeating behaviors, manage emotions so that relationships are more enjoyable, and understand how others' beliefs and emotions don't have to control their lives. It's an indispensable book for those seeking a healthier, richer, and more pleasurable daily life. The chapter titles are: Chapter 1"What Brings You Here?" Why People Seek Therapy Chapter 2What Goes On in the Room?: How Does Therapy Work? Chapter 3What Are the Goals of Therapy?: Feeling Better vs. Getting Better Chapter 4Thoughts and Feelings: What's the Difference? Chapter 5Differentiation of Self: Come Here - Now, Go Away! Chapter 6Managing Feelings: Feelings Are Neither Good Nor Bad Chapter 7The Importance of Journaling: Seeing is Believing Chapter 8Relationship Patterns: Healthy Relationship Require Healthy People Chapter 9Growing a Basic Self: Meet Your New Best Friend - YOU Chapter 10Distorted Thinking: It's Not What You Think Chapter 11Defense Mechanisms: Are They "Evil" or Necessary? Chapter 12Boundaries: Respect for Others Begins with Self Chapter 13Communication: Ready to Talk - with Others Chapter 14It's Complicated: Setbacks, Obstacles and Stumbling Blocks Chapter 15Our Time is Up: Conclusion
Download or read book The Art of the First Session Making Psychotherapy Count From the Start written by Robert Taibbi and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2016-02-22 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making Psychotherapy Count from the Start The average client today only comes to therapy five to eight times, and many only come once, so it is increasingly important, therefore, for therapists to achieve first-session success. Therapeutic skills and sales and marketing savvy are equally important to this task. In the first sixty minutes, clinicians must build trust, communicate what they have to offer, and ensure that the client feels different when they walk out than they did walking in. Short, practical, and applicable to all therapeutic modalities, this book walks readers through all the first-session essentials, including preparation for the first session, action-steps for each stage of the session, techniques for changing the emotional climate, and “closing the deal,” to make sure that clients come back for more. Packed with case examples, vignettes, tools, and techniques, The Art of the First Session prepares clinicians with critical skills to cut through performance anxiety, feel and convey confidence with clients, and hit the ground running in therapy with new clients.
Download or read book Basic Counseling Techniques written by C. Wayne Perry and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2002-11-26 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yes, but what do I do with that client?" That is a question Dr. Wayne Perry often hears as he works with beginning counselors or therapists. It is the question Basic Counseling Techniques seeks to answer. Born out of Dr. Perrys more than twenty-years experience training marriage and family therapists and pastoral counselors, this book skips the theory and goes right for the practical application. Students in counseling or therapy training programs will find Basic Counseling Techniques an essential part of their studies. This textbook gives the basic steps to actually applying nine different sets of clinical tools, and guidelines for selecting the appropriate tool for the appropriate clinical situation. That makes this textbook unique in the field. Another unique feature is this textbooks practical suggestions for setting up the therapy room, using audio-visual recording equipment, and making covert interactions overt. Each of the fifteen chapters concludes with a "Living Into the Lesson" section to give the reader experiential exercises to apply that chapters skills. Training program directors will find this book invaluable for students who will soon begin their practicum. Beginning therapists, both interns and recent graduates, will find it irreplaceable in building their own professional "toolkit."
Download or read book Child Trauma Handbook written by Ricky Greenwald and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 2005, the Child Trauma Handbook is a user-friendly manual that teaches a comprehensive, research-based, phase-model approach to trauma-informed treatment for children and adolescents. Both new and experienced clinicians will find clear explanations and tips for making the connection between child/adolescent behaviors and traumatic histories; they’ll also learn practical skills for successful interventions. Each chapter and skillset is theory based and includes transcripts, case studies, exercises, and specific strategies for addressing problems.
Download or read book Feeling Intention Therapy written by Kevin Everett FitzMaurice, M.S. and published by FitzMaurice Publishers. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read Feeling-Intention Therapy to Discover— • FIT Incorporates REBT & CBT to Go Beyond Both Master Your Intentions & Feelings • Master Your thoughts & Responses 17 Diagrams & 8 Tables Make It Easy • Master Your Heart & Mind New Comprehensive Therapy System • This book presents the most comprehensive model available for understanding human feelings, intentions, thoughts, and responses. • This book presents a new therapeutic system to advance the counseling profession. • However, anyone familiar with Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT) or Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) will find it comparatively easy to understand because FIT subsumes and builds upon those two models. • We have made this book accessible for professional practitioners and those seeking personal improvement, self-help, and self-knowledge. Do you dare face your inner demons? • Do you intend to overcome your inner demons? Then this book is for you. • Do you dare to prioritize the intention to be awake, aware, and alive? Then this book is for you. Want to Finally Map and Understand Your Mind? • Are you consumed by a desire to fully understand the workings of your mind? Then this book is for you. • This book will help you to discover a revolutionary psychological approach for both self-help and professional help. 5 or 12 Factors Controlling Human Responses • Feeling-Intention Therapy (FIT) will teach you the twelve main factors controlling, influencing, and motivating human behavior. • However, you only need to focus on five to make your life better. • When you know and understand why you do what you do, you will also learn why other people do what they do. • When you understand why you did what you did, you can more effectively and efficiently improve what you do next time. • When you know how to change the factors controlling your behavior, you can help others change their behavior by teaching them to change the same factors. • When others see you living a centered and meaningful life, then they will want what you have. Advanced & Exhaustive Psychology • Psychology has never been so complete or as clear and precise as it is in Feeling-Intention Therapy (FIT) because the order of psychological events is fully delineated. • While being a major advance in psychological understanding and application, FIT does not claim to work on biological or sociological issues except insofar as they are secondary issues and side effects of what FIT does address. • However, FIT is more than willing to work using a team approach wherein a group of professionals work together when helping a client, each one focusing on a different issue, communicating with and assisting each other as needed. FIT provides the map. You provide the territory. • Your counseling practice provides the experience. • Your experience of receiving FIT counseling provides the evidence. • Your contribution provides the needed help for both the theory and others.
Download or read book Inside This Moment written by Kirk D. Strosahl and published by New Harbinger Publications. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A practical guide that presents a user-friendly approach to helping patients enact radical change and acceptance through mindfulness in their personal lives." —Family Medicine In this breakthrough book, cofounder of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT), Kirk Strosahl and two fellow ACT psychologists offer a brief, five-stage model to help you recognize, assess, and take advantage of the subtle shifts of awareness that occur during therapy to achieve the most effective intervention and successful treatment outcomes. In therapy, it is essential for both clinicians and their clients to pay attention to each moment in-session as an opportunity to create change. In addition, clients must be willing to experience pain in the present moment in order to make lasting change and begin to live according to their values. But staying in the moment is harder than it sounds. Inside This Moment offers a powerful skill set for learning to live in the now—even when it hurts. To help you and your client make the most of your time in treatment sessions, this book includes clinical examples of working with clients via self-related processes, and offers tips for what to do when faced with certain non-verbal and verbal client behaviors, such as: looking away or down body positioning respiration rate giving general answers to specific questions changing the topic forgetting what was asked repeating oneself over and over changes in rate of speech voice volume You'll learn that you don't need to go looking for radical change opportunities—but rather that the opportunities are transpiring right in front of you. This book will allow you to relax and trust in the power of the "now" in your therapy sessions.
Download or read book My Therapist Says written by My Therapist Says and published by Rock Point. This book was released on 2020-10-06 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the team behind the super-popular Instagram @MyTherapistSays comes this humorous guide that chronicles the exhausting task of navigating the daily, anxiety-ridden struggle that we fondly call life. Including hilarious memes MTS is known and loved for, along with checklists, prompts, questions from readers, and more, My Therapist Says is the guide you need to achieve your goals, one wrong turn at a time. Have you ever wanted something, pursued it (albeit not quite as gracefully as you would’ve hoped), failed, and then genuinely asked yourself the question, “Am I delusional?” Well, that’s how I began penning this magnum opus. Like the Buddhist’s have their Tripitaka, you have…moi. And my therapist, though it’s unlikely she’ll admit this in public. On the receiving end of a ghosting session? Needing a way to leave a work function without looking like a buzzkill? Having a hard time developing amnesia about your last relationship? Fear not, as I cover everything from circumstantial etiquette to blissful delusion when necessary. So, grab a pen, a box of tissues, a glass of wine, and your bestie, because sh*t is about to get real. And remember, be yourself, be kind, and all that jazz, unless you’re a Susan*. If that’s the case, try to be literally anyone else. Ugh, my therapist hates that I wrote that. *Susan: Noun and verb. Unpleasant, annoying, and delusional, the Susan is somebody who is literally awful in every way, is liked by no one, but has no clue, no matter how many open clues you give her. If you roll your eyes at this, you’re probably a Susan. Uses: Susaning, Susanism. For even more on navigating the mystical tornado of life, get the companion coloring book: My Therapist Says...to Color: Ignore Reality and Color Over 50 Designs Because You Can't Even.
Download or read book An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame written by Anne Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-30 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for psychotherapists and counsellors in training, An Introduction to the Therapeutic Frame clarifies the concept of the frame - the way of working set out in the first meeting between therapist and client. This Classic Edition of the book includes a brand new introduction by the author. Anne Gray, an experienced psychotherapist and teacher, uses lively and extensive case material to show how the frame can both contain feelings and further understanding within the therapeutic relationship. She takes the reader through each stage of therapeutic work, from the first meeting to the final contact, and looks at those aspects of management that beginners often find difficult, such as fee payment, letters and telephone calls, supervision and evaluation. Her practical advice on how to handle these situations will be invaluable to trainees as well as to those involved in their training.
Download or read book What is Narrative Therapy written by Alice Morgan and published by Gecko 2000. This book was released on 2000 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This best-selling book is an easy-to-read introduction to the ideas and practices of narrative therapy. It uses accessible language, has a concise structure and includes a wide range of practical examples. What Is Narrative Practice? covers a broad spectrum of narrative practices including externalisation, re-membering, therapeutic letter writing, rituals, leagues, reflecting teams and much more. If you are a therapist, health worker or community worker who is interesting in applying narrative ideas in your own work context, this book was written with you in mind.
