Clear Thinking Out Loud

This podcast is the narrated version of my article 3 Interventions for Treating Anxiety. Sometimes a large part of anxiety therapy is helping your client overcome the ‘feeling like a freak’ effect caused by too much self consciousness. Self consciousness can present a paradox for therapists in that the client needs to make less effort rather than more in order to overcome it. In this episode I talk about: The vicious circle effect of worrying about worrying How to normalize client problems without minimizing them Ways to reframe problems by putting them in context and so make them less ‘weird’ Why identifying the function of the problem can be profoundly therapeutic Or watch this episode of the podcast on video below: