Reappraisal (changing the meaning we give to experiences) has been repeatedly shown to be one of the most effective ways we have to regulate our emotions.  It's one of the star components of effective emotion-regulation, coping-skill toolkits ... and it's important to realise that these toolkits can be very helpful (De Castella, 2017).  Reappraisal is important across a variety of difficult states ... depression (Cheng, 2017), anxiety (Goldin, 2017), anger, interpersonal conflict, minor hassles (Richardson, 2017), and major life difficulties.

“ Until lions have their historians, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter. ” - African proverb

Here are a series of forms that I use almost every session with clients, or for screening and orientation at the start of therapy:

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Here are a series of forms that I use almost every session with clients, or for screening and orientation at the start of therapy:

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This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.  Polonius in Hamlet

” - Shakespeare

Here are a series of forms that I use almost every session with clients, or for screening and orientation at the start of therapy: