Clear Thinking Out Loud

Diagnosing PTSD can be tricky – here are 3 questions I always ask to find hidden trauma.

Setting boundaries with clients doesn’t come naturally to therapy practitioners. Empathy and wanting to help people is what brought you to this work, and for us it’s hard to be cruel to be kind.

Part two of the series explores the inherent human need to feel safe and secure and shows how it can lead those desperate enough into unsafe situations.

These cognitive behavioural therapy strategies can help clients move past limiting fears and feel more socially comfortable.

For safe effective trauma treatment, it is vital to understand how PTSD and phobias are affecting your client

Here are three reasons why I never get a client with PTSD to relive their traumatic experiences.

Help free your clients from unhelpful depressive thought patterns by working with their unconscious and conscious minds.

Milton Erickson was arguably the greatest psychotherapist in history. Here are 3 of his key hypnotherapy techniques.

External discipline, when required, within a supportive environment may be the primer for the development of self-discipline.

3 hypnotherapy techniques which can be applied to a range of client problems, from confidence troubles to healing from trauma.

Arguing against a reluctant client will push them further away. Follow these reframing tips to help them see the benefits therapy can bring.

Relationships can be hard to maintain for those on the autistic spectrum. Loneliness and isolation are common, as the seemingly random ‘noise’ of emotionality and human interaction leave them feeling constantly overwhelmed. Here are three ways to help your Asperger’s clients find the intimacy they seek

How is it that some people – and some situations – can persuade us so much more than others?

How do you get really good at hypnotic language? Here’s 3 key principles I always use.

Hypnosis is more effective and productive if we ‘soften up’ our clients, readying them for a trance state before we ever get to the ‘official’ hypnosis.

Hypnotherapists use the word ‘deep’ to describe a state with a greater degree of perceptual abstraction. Here are three ways we can help our clients go deeper into trance naturalistically.

Anger is not good or bad, but it needs to be contextual, useful and, because of its health and other implications, infrequent. Use these 7 steps and 3 CBT techniques to help clients regain control.

What causes an emotional crisis and how can we successfully manage it? Here are five ways to handle a client in crisis, so you can feel confident in your crisis intervention skills.

How to build rapport, so your client feels respected and validated

Why do otherwise rational human beings do crazy things? This series on the dark side of human emotional needs seeks to answer just this question, and to show you how you can use this understanding to help your clients, enrich the lives of those around you, and, most importantly, make sure you are meeting your […]