Not-Happiness
I am presented with an array of difficulties from young people these days. I can feel helpless at times to restore or resolve the burden...
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- Jun 8
Contact, Attunement, and Our Vagal Tone
Our brain is tied to our heart by the vagus nerve. research has discovered minute variations in heart rate reveal the strength of this
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- Jun 4
Gestalt Therapy Theory of Creative Adjustment - some text references
Gestalt Therapy Theory of Creative Adjustment, quotes, with context if possible from various Gestalt books referencing Creative Adjustment
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- Apr 3
Contacting Process of Gestalt Therapy Theory
Contact with anything not novel - not different - does not require adjustment because the familiar, by definition, has been adjusted to
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- Apr 3
Challenge – as an intervention in therapy
I have recently been in discussion with my therapist peers regarding ‘challenging’ interventions in therapy
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- Feb 12
Egan Skilled Helper Model
his model is not based on a particular theory of personality development. It is a framework for conceptualising the helping process.
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- Feb 12
Dream Lover versus Reality
You can’t forget her, so don’t make the effort. Let nature take its course, as time passes, her influence on your life will decrease. Page92
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- Feb 12
Teenage Self Harm
The most common reasons given by pupils for deliberate self harm were 'to find relief from a terrible state of mind' or because they had...
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- Feb 12
Embracing the Adolescent
In working with adolescents / teenagers I bring my experiences of working with 11 - 16 year old school students. As a teacher for 10...
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- Feb 12
Panic Attacks
Panic Attacks Those suffering panic attacks tend to describe their condition as something unsayable. This unsayability would seem to lie...
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- Feb 12
Ten Things Your Teen Is Reluctant to Tell You
Ten Things Your Teen Is Reluctant to Tell You by Colleen L. Reece The full, original, text for this article appears in the table below...
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- Feb 12
Change: Resistance - Stability versus Change
CHANGE Resistance - Stability versus Change All movement engenders resistance. Since experience is in constant flux, it too takes place...
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- Dec 16, 2022
Could You Just Listen
When I ask you to listen to me, and you start giving me advice, you have not done what I asked. When I ask you to listen to me, and you...
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- Mar 18, 2022
The Journey Out of Despair
The journey out of despair; a maelstrom of emotion and thought sapping what little energy there is. An unchosen journey taken with heavy...
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- Oct 5, 2019
Pale Blue Dot
Voyager 1 and 2 launched in 1977. Vicariously experiencing Voyager affects our perception and existential place in the cosmos
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