- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Solution-oriented therapy - Solution-oriented brief therapy (SOBT) is a less-famous cousin to CBT (cognitive-behavioural therapy), proved by research to be as successful as CBT but in half the time. It has an inspiring and empowering worldview of human nature and I'm a big fan.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Family Constellation Therapy in Bristol - Did your parents divorce? Did your mother, before you were born, have an abortion? Did your grandfather risk death or kill the enemy face to face in WWII? Any of those things may well be the most important event in your own life.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Three levels – be normal, self-actualise, dis-identify - Therapy and life healing can take place on three levels - getting back to normal, self-actualisation, and transpersonal therapy or what I would term "therapy for meditation."
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Meditation and mindfulness in therapy - The spirit meditation of meditation ("mindfulness") is basic to how I help people. The Western understanding of meditation is often confused – even by many people who write books about it.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Carl Rogers client-centred therapy - Pioneer US therapist Carl Rogers work greatly touched my own life. A great therapist and a beautiful human being. Rogers made the then-bold step of dropping all techniques and psychological theory from his work.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) - NLP is a valuable toolkit with lots of unique plusses, including a creative set of techniques, and a masterful way with words. But as an in-depth life healing tool, it is in my view, like CBT, unaware of its limitations.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Life coaching - Life coaching is a vigorously action-oriented personal development tool aimed at accountability and achieving goals. It has great strengths, but, as a psychotherapy, limitations.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Eugene Gendlin’s Focusing - Focusing is another of my favourite therapies. It teaches you how to tune into your body and sense how you are feeling. (That’s feeling in the sense “I feel restless” rather than “I feel global warming is a major problem.”) It is a wonderful therapy.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Past Life Healing - I don't care whether past lives are "real" or not. The healing that results is very real.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
CBT (Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy) – a critique - Human life is about joy, discovery, courage, truth, adventure, love, spirituality, following the inner voice, commitment, sex, passion, joy and fun. These are not words you would find in a CBT textbook.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
CBT – what “evidence based” really means - It is "scientifically irresponsible to imply that CBT is more effective than other therapies," according to Professors Mick Cooper and Robert Elliott, William B Stiles and Art Bohart.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
“I talked and talked, but nothing changed” - These are typical comments about hypnosis, counselling and psychotherapy from those of my clients who have had previous experience with other types of therapy.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Human Givens – a therapy without a heart? - Human Givens therapy is a rich eclectic toolkit of techniques from various types of therapy which have been validated by academic research. However, I can't find it in myself to fall in love with this work.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
All about hypnosis - Hypnosis is a wonderful - there's no other word - natural talent of the human mind which is extremely useful in therapy and healing. Basically, it is a combination of imagination and relaxation.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) and TFT (Thought Field Therapy) - I like EFT a lot, though I don't use to too much as I have other tools which cover the same ground.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Psychodynamic psychotherapy - Psychodynamic psychotherapy - coming soon.
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Alchemical Hypnotherapy - Alchemical Hypnotherapy - coming soon
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Neo-Rechian Bodywork therapy - Neo-Rechian Bodywork therapy - coming soon
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Gestalt Therapy - Gestalt Therapy - coming soon
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- Adele’s River Lea: Finding love, but not letting love in - Finding love but not letting love in: Adele’s River Lea Adele’s River Lea is one of the rare songs where the protagonist talks about herself. It’s not, as most pop songs are, just about her emotions. It’s about her internal choices and what she’s learning about herself. From the point of view of real relationships, […]
Inner Child Healing - Inner Child Healing - coming soon
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