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Top 14 Psychotherapy Blogs
As a professional psychotherapist, you may be wondering where you can find the best information to help improve your client outcomes and grow your practice. I’ve compiled a list of the 14 best psychotherapy blogs. Each blog was hand-picked based on the quality of content and frequency of updates (minimum once per month). 1. Psychotherapy.net With over a dozen PhDs contributing to this blog, there’s a substantial variety in content. Some articles focus on how to handle real life client situations situations while others are actual interviews with professional psychotherapists. Favorite post: Intuitive Therapy 2. Dr. Deb A top psychologist and practicing psychoanalyst, Dr. Deb is know for her work in treating depression. My favorite part about Dr. Deb Serani's blog is her use of multimedia to present information, such as videos and infographics. She is also an accomplished author. Her latest book is titled, "Depression In Later Life: An Essential Guide." 3. Psychcentral Living up to it's name, Psychcentral is THE central place to find blogs about mental health and psychology. In fact they have 50+ active blogs on a variety of subjects. If you count the retired ones it's over 100. 4. GoodTherapy.org Good Therapy's missions is, "Helping
Hypnotic Induction (3 effective techniques)
Here are 3 different hypnotic induction techniques. The first is based on utilizing a person's leisure interests, the second is a more structured technique that many hypnotherapists use, that we have refined to make it more effective, and lastly, a technique based on utilizing a previous trance state to re-induce hypnosis. Trance Inductions Utilising Leisure Interests People enjoy participating in leisure activities for many reasons but not many people realise that one of the main reasons they enjoy it so much is because they enter a trance state as part of the activity. Every leisure activity induces a state of receptivity. Most people enjoy leisure activities. One of the reasons for this seeming addiction to leisure pursuits is the associated state of receptivity that accompanies every leisure activity. All activities are naturally trance inducing. For example, dancing and sports have a trance component in the same way that watching television or listening to music has a trance component. Because leisure activities are desired and experienced by most people, most people are familiar with the trance experience associated with them. However Patients are not usually aware that this particular state of reverie or trance is the same state required for
Become an Expert on non verbal communication
When a Patient attempts to give you information he is likely to have thought out very carefully what he wants to say prior to the session. Usually this is based on what he thinks you want to hear. When you meet your Patient there will be certain things that you will want to hear also, however these may not be the same things that the Patient thinks you want to hear. This means that a certain amount of the Patient's information will be contrived. Patients seek help from a therapist because they feel that they cannot help themselves. Yet when they ask for help they have to use the same vocabulary and concepts to describe their problems that have previously not been helpful in solving their problems. This puts Patients at a disadvantage because they can only talk about their problems from their own limited frames of reference. This blog post will teach you how to observe and understand non-verbal communication so that it naturally becomes part of your everyday way of seeing how people interact. It will help you understand someone's motives, beliefs and thoughts as it will allow you to compare what a person is saying verbally with