Clear Thinking Out Loud

What can a lack of meaningful creative challenge do to people? Part seven in this series explores the detrimental effects of this unfulfilled need.

Find out how addiction REALLY happens and why hypnosis is the tool to get rid of it.

Depression gets us using a strictly negative bias. Under its baleful influence, anything ‘good’ that happens is interpreted as simply the ‘exception that proves the negative rule’. Here’s how to reframe that toxic outlook.

Have you noticed that some clients feel under pressure to ‘perform’ or ‘do it right’ when it comes to the hypnosis part of therapy?

Dream analysis is often simplistic and one size fits all. Here’s a guide to why your clients dream, and ways to figure out what their unconscious mind is trying to express.

“But this feels insurmountable!” How I break down my clients’ therapy goals into easy steps.

Is ‘imposter syndrome’ preventing you from doing your best work?

Provocative language is important when you’re treating someone with trauma. Here are three specific techniques to use when treating post-traumatic stress disorder and phobias.

The connection between the body and mind mean mental and physical health cannot be disentangled, especially with it comes to meeting our Primal Human Needs.

Why understanding Stockholm syndrome can help you help smokers quit.

Some of our clients are essentially balanced, happy, productive people when circumstances are fine. But when they’re going through a terrible time, it’s only natural that their ability to meet their needs is compromised.

Why you need to grab your client’s attention if you’re going to be able to help them and how to do so quickly.

Have you heard of the ‘hidden observer’ deep within the human mind?

Artfully crafted therapeutic reframes are a wonderful way to rapidly help your clients discard limiting beliefs.

The way you ‘package’ your therapeutic task request can make all the difference. Here are four ways to improve client outcomes by being a kind taskmaster.

When we communicate hypnotically, we need to know which part – conscious or unconscious mind – we are communicating with and seeking to influence.

Here are 5 tips to help you help a client who may be stuck in the web of a sociopathic narcissist (or someone with ‘Narcissistic Personality Disorder’).

Part three of the series explores the need for control and how it can betray us when it is met in unhealthy ways.

It seems that to be effective, therapists need to focus on client resources and potential solutions at least as much as pathology and causes.

Whenever anyone asks me why I use hypnosis in psychotherapy, I feel like a swimmer being asked why he feels the need to get into water to swim. There’s a variety of positive reasons to introduce clinical hypnosis into your practice.