Search Results for: Psychotherapy

7 Ways to Increase Self-Awareness in Writing

…t. Ask yourself, “What am I feeling right now?” And then write it down. 4. Psychotherapy. Gestalt therapy is one type of psychotherapy that focuses on the moment and the here and now. This is usually done with a psychotherapist. 5. Creative Visualization. This technique improves body and mind awareness using conscious breathing, images, and sensation to realign the thought process. Specific intentions are set in the mind. 6. Meditation. Meditation…

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Treatment of Individuals with PTSD, Complex PTSD and Comorbid Disorders

…ion-making. He’ll enumerate and discuss how to implement the Core Tasks of Psychotherapy in an integrated fashion that addresses the high incidence of comorbid disorders from a life-span perspective. He’ll discuss his project with the National Guard to develop IPOD technology to bolster resilience in returning service members and his latest work on forming a “Roadmap to Resilience.” Attendees will be able to: 1. Analyze the state of the art concer…

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Assessment and Psychological Treatment of Bipolar Disorder

…s essential information on assessment and treatment of bipolar disorder in psychotherapy.A survivor of bipolar disorder herself, Dr. Jamison courageously uses her personal struggle to help clients and therapists understand the misconceptions of this lethal illness. In this riveting interview with Victor Yalom, PhD, clinicians will find out not only what bipolar disorder is, but also what causes it, how to make an accurate diagnosis, and how to tre…

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Re-Moralizing Your Inner Voice Part Two

…self and others. By way of introduction, I am a psychologist who practices psychotherapy with adults and couples, and who teaches students in the allied health professions. As the Founder and Director of The Relational Ethics Institute, I provide ethics education workshops throughout the United States and Canada for mental health professionals. The common theme across all areas of my work concerns the ethics of care. I believe that demoralization…

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VIDEO: Dr. Kirk Schneider on Modern Culture and The Experience of Awe

…o May, who is getting more and more concerned about the standardization of psychotherapy and the mechanization of psychotherapy, who said, “If this keeps up, pretty soon we’re all going to be pushing buttons and pulling levers.” I mean, that’s the ultimate nightmare, you know, where human become robotic, human/robotic meld more and more. I mean, that’s happening in a very real medical and physical way, too. As people, you know, adopt robotics as p…

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VIDEO: Dr. Kirk Schneider on How to Experience Life More Fully

…ing in their own life , on a personal level? Kirk Schneider: I think depth psychotherapy is not a bad way to begin that process. Beyond that, dropping the devices for a time, having some undistracted spaces to go to, whether that’s a walk in nature or maybe some time in one’s room, meditating could certainly be critical to that. Travelling, if one has the chance, if one has the chance to do that, keeping a diary of one’s reflections about life cou…

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From Counselor to Coach: Making the Transition

…ffering life coaching as a professional service to clients who do not need psychotherapy. You will also learn how to take the principles of coaching to a wider market by doing telephone coaching with clients all over the globe. Learn from the originator of life coach training for mental health professionals and add this lucrative practice to your business, or learn how to make the transition to full-time. The basic course is composed of six articl…

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Mindfulness – Many Approaches

…and parenting. It’s now going on and on and there’s also mindfulness based psychotherapy. There’s mindfulness informed psychotherapy where the psychotherapist isn’t actually teaching mindfulness, but they’re practicing it themselves and there are studies that are showing that when the therapist practices mindfulness, the outcomes of the therapy are much improved. Because you become the instrument for resonating or for attuning with the other. And…

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Telehealth, The New Standard

…can benefit from receiving telehealth services. While many in the field of psychotherapy have resistance to telehealth, consider that we as a society have been using crisis phone lines for dozens of years and in so doing have saved thousands of lives. These crisis phone lines are a version of telehealth. Consider the homebound patient or the LGBT youth living in a homophobic environment; these and millions of other people may go without mental hea…

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Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach: An Interview with Pat Ogden

…ivors of trauma. Dr. Ogden is the founder and director of the Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute, an internationally recognized school that specializes in training psychotherapists in somatic/cognitive approaches for the treatment of trauma, developmental and attachment issues. She is the author of the groundbreaking book, Trauma and the Body: A Sensorimotor Approach to Psychotherapy. Dr. Ogden is a clinician, consultant, international lecturer…

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