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The “Why”and “How” of Therapy and Pain Management
Clients are sometimes confused about why they are referred to therapy for pain management because pain is generally not thought of as a mental health concern. Some clients feel that the medical...
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The Grief FAQ –“Am I doing this right?”
The majority of group work I do nowadays involves grief and loss. Folks who attend these groups, are usually seeking answers to many questions they have struggled with for a long time prior to making a...
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Mindfulness Clip
I’m a fan of Lori Granger’s youtube clips; here is a favorite I like to give to clients… Filed under: Anxiety, Depression, Mindfulness, Therapy Tagged: addiction, depression, meditation, mindfulness,...
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Why Cues Count.
One of the first skills I go over and practice with clients is mindfulness and anyone who knows me probably finds this laughable. You don’t have to play baseball well to coach it, so get off my back....
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When Reality Bites
I’m back from vacation and despite being away from the blog for a while, a few folks posted some interesting comments that had nothing to do with the post they were commenting on. One had a link to a...
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The Grief FAQ- Avoidance
Back in November I wrote about how the field is shifting its thinking on complicated grief and some of the controversy surrounding the changes to grief as an exclusionary criterion for depression in...
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Core Beliefs
Automatic thinking is a term that comes up a lot around these parts (parts=this blog) and refers to the self-talk or narrative that folks with depression and anxiety immediately engage in as a...
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A nice example of CBT
This 11 minute clip demonstrates a good variety of CBT techniques in action. Filed under: Anxiety, Depression, OCD Tagged: anxiety, cbt, depression, exposure, Mental Health, ocd, Socratic Method
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Pros and Cons
Pros and Cons is a basic skill that’s taught early on in CBT and is part of DBT’s distress tolerance module. The tool has a broad application; it can be used to examine decision making across a...
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Unintended Consequences of Progress
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is difficult work and part of that has to do with the distress progress can create in a family system. Yeah, that’s right. We’re looking at how CBT can potentially impact...
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