Posts tagged with 'psychotherapy'
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (eighth post): internal critic dialogues - practice points
24th February 2012
In the last post on this Emotion-focused therapy workshop series that I wrote, I discussed key background research on using EFT methods to work with people's "internal critics". In today's post, I'd like to be a bit more practical. So initially I note some general advice on how to structure …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (seventh post): internal critic dialogues - background research
22nd February 2012
I wrote yesterday about the morning session of this EFT training day in the post "Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions". In the afternoon we explored "Working with self-criticism/depressive splits". As Greenberg & Angus write in their book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy" …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions
21st February 2012
Last Saturday was the fourth day of this seven seminar "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series" that I'm going to at Glasgow's Jordanhill campus. I took my bike on the train from Edinburgh and then cycled along the canal and in past Gartnavel Hospital. There was a woodpecker chipping away …
My brand new "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy! (second post)
23rd January 2012
I began thinking yesterday about what I actually do as a psychotherapist. This lead to a light-hearted first post describing a "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy. The initial "two" acknowledges the importance of an overview of what has been going on for the client and a good working alliance. The …
My brand new "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy! (first post)
22nd January 2012
Here's my brand new "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy. How do I know it's so fresh off the press? Well I just came up with it lying warmly in bed an hour or so ago. It's "serious" in the sense that I have been mulling over what I actually do …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (fifth post): two chair conflict dialogues
16th January 2012
I wrote yesterday about the importance of processing "hot cognitions" and feelings. In today's post I aim to to drill down more into the emotional evocation and processing of chair work. "Two chair work for conflict splits" is often relevant, Robert Elliott suggested in this Emotion-focused therapy workshop, when clients …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (fourth post): the importance of processing "hot" cognitions & feelings
15th January 2012
I wrote yesterday about the morning session on "Narrative therapy and trauma processing" in the third day of an "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series" that I'm attending at the University of Strathclyde. A couple of months ago, in my first post about this whole workshop series, I wrote "As …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (third post): narrative therapy and trauma processing
14th January 2012
"Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, reexperience it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts" Salman Rushdie Yesterday was the third day …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (second post): client processes and therapist-client conflict
27th November 2011
So yesterday was a day seminar on Emotion-focused therapy (EFT) with Robert Elliott. I wrote yesterday about my excitement over starting this sequence of monthly workshops - there are another five due over January to May next year. Well how did the day go? There were twenty two participants (including …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (first post): excitement and why am I doing this?
26th November 2011
I woke gently bubbling with excitement. I'm off in a couple of hours or so to Glasgow to join a course entitled "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series". Sadly I missed the first day of this seven seminar sequence - I was at the October Scottish Mixed Group peer residential. …