Psychotherapy
On My Own
New book about the importance of reclaiming and accepting one’s self…
Depression Counseling
Depression is a state of mind, which results in sadness and frustration. There are numerous remedies to treat this condition. Depression counseling is one of the effective ways to overcome depression and improve mental health.
Narrative Therapy
We seldom look at what we have and often look at what we lack. Narrative Therapy helps you discover your true ‘self’. Find out all about narrative therapy.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills for Mental Health - PLEASE
An overview of the PLEASE skill from Dr. Marsha Linehan's dialectical behavioral therapy.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - A Revolutionary Approach to Mental Health Recovery
An overview of Dr. Marsha Linehan's therapy for borderline personality disorder that's proving useful in the treatment of other mental illnesses as well.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a form of psychotherapy used mainly for the treatment of borderline personality disorder. Designed by Marsha Linehan, it is used to resolve problematic extreme emotional behavior.
Behavior Modification
Behavior modification is psychotherapy aimed at alteration of behaviors to specific stimuli. Find out about reward therapy and its uses in ‘ABC’ approach method to get desired results…
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy is a form of psychotherapy, commonly perceived as a unified term for numerous psychotherapies; works at changing and offering realistic optimistic thoughts to irrational beliefs and enjoys a great success in its results!
Sick From Health Worries
Woorying about your health can make you sick. This article explores how Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can help you.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy For Shyness and Social Anxiety
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Edinburgh, teaches you how to make changes to the psychological and behaviour factors that exacerbate social anxiety and shyness. This article discusses how.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Weight Problems
Did you know that CBT is also useful at helping people with weight and eating problems? A CBT approach is not about faddy diets but rather you developing an understanding of the psychological blocks that keep you locked in unhealthy eating and weight problems.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Skills to Help Yourself in Six Weeks
How Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can help you in as little as six weeks.
5 Common Areas Requiring Counseling
This article looks at 5 key areas in life a counselor can help with.
Tips for choosing a psychotherapist in London.
This article looks at the best way to find the right psychotherapist for your needs.
Power of Winning Attitudes by Dr. Louise Aznavour PhD Psychologist
Through readings, therapy sessions, teaching doctorate students and offering workshops to the public, Dr. Aznavour has collected a wealth of upbeat materials on winning styles and healthy living. Now she shares them in her website Stayingupbeat.com which will grow and be transformed continuously.
Agoraphobia And Cognitive Therapy
If you suffer from agoraphobia, cognitive therapy will benefit you. If your agoraphobia is severe, medication along with cognitive behavioral therapy will help you make tremendous improvement.
CBT Therapy and OCD
Karen runs a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) therapy practice, near Aylesbury Bucks, where she treats people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This article discusses how CBT can help people cope with OCD.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for OCD
Usually when I treat people for OCD at my CBT therapy practice in Hertfordshire, I find that the method that the person with OCD uses to cope with or solve their OCD, is the very factor keeping their OCD going.
Common Misconceptions about Psychotherapy
Debunks 6 common myths about therapy and therapists, including - you lie on a couch - therapists analyze everyone - therapists have sex with their clients - it's all about your childhood - ECT is painful and used to punish bad patients - "schizophrenia" is the same thing as having "multiple personalities"
Panic Disorder - Women More Prone to Panic Attacks
It is believed that as many as 30 percent of people who visit their doctor or hospital emergency unit complaining of chest pains, may actually be experiencing anxiety or panic attack symptoms, and not heart attacks or stroke. Once correctly diagnosed, panic disorders can be treated using a variety of anxiety medications, or more recently the preferred option, at least initially, is psychotherapy and behavioral or cognitive therapies.
Cognitive Therapies for Depression and Disorders
Cognitive therapy and related approaches such as NLP (neuro-linguistic-programming) are very effective at helping people recognise the thinking habits behind problems such as depression, anxiety, panic disorders and phobias.
Moving out of city
Generally is our decision, but sometimes is more difficult to take the decision than others. Some people will spend some years to make this decision, some will never do it.
Any daily problem that might need a professional advice
Sometimes you think that you have a problem, perhaps just a little one, but you don’t have anybody to talk about it, perhaps you don’t have the confidence to do it, or perhaps you just feel some shame to talk about it with somebody you know.
A Second opinion for our issues
Sometimes you have a problem, perhaps just a little one, but you don’t have anybody to talk about it, perhaps you don’t have the confidence to do it, or perhaps you just feel some shame to talk about it with somebody you know.
Types of online counseling demand
The usual demands we receive differ on its frequency and acuteness. Some people decide to start with periodic counseling sessions after facing a crisis. So they consider the online counseling as a routine that they keep (once or twice a week) during the time when they are solving their problematic situation (like a divorce or a grief process).
The Narcissist in Therapy
The narcissist sends a message to his psychotherapist: there is nothing you can teach me, I am as intelligent as you are, you are not superior to me, actually, we should both collaborate as equals in this unfortunate state of things in which we, inadvertently, find ourselves involved.
The Hateful Patient - Difficult Patients in Psychotherapy
Groves described four types of such undesirable patients: "dependent clingers" (codependents), "entitled demanders" (narcissists and borderlines), "manipulative help rejectors" (typically psychopaths and paranoids, borderlines and negativistic passive-aggressives), and "self-destructive deniers" (schizoids and schizotypals, for instance, or histrionics and borderlines).
Eclectic Psychotherapy
Mental health practitioners freely borrow tools and techniques from a myriad therapeutic systems.
Psychotherapy As Bulimia Treatment
Psychotherapy is effective in treating bulimia because the disorder is caused by psychological factors.
Depressed? Should you Take Medication or Receive Psychotherapy?
Are you confused about whether to treat your depression with psychotherapy or drugs? This article cuts to the chase by explaining that the sole use of either cognitive-behavioral therapy or antidepressants can be equally effective. However, combining psychotherapy WITH medication is much more likely to be more effective than using medication alone.
Freudians Slip in Battle to Shape French Minds
Psychological warfare has broken out over a book that calls on the French people to stop blaming their parents. The Livre Noir de la Psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis) claims French mind-healers have become 'fossilised' in the 'marginal, discredited' teachings of Sigmund...
A Brief Treatment on the Topic of Dance Therapy
About Dance Therapy. Somatic Psychology and Dance/Movement Therapy constitute a rapidly emerging field based on body-mind-spirit integration in the greater field of psychotherapy.
THE ENCHANTED SELF, That's Each of Us!
In my years as a psychologist, I have come to believe that most people seeking psychotherapy are unhappy. This is not only due to earlier hurts and traumas, as well as present frustrations and problems, but because they cannot access earlier happy moments often enough.
Your Abuser in Therapy
Your abuser "agrees" (is forced) to attend therapy. But are the sessions worth the effort? What is the success rate of various treatment modalities in modifying the abuser's conduct, let alone in "healing" or "curing" him? Is psychotherapy the panacea it is often made out to be - or a nostrum, as many victims of abuse claim? And why is it applied only after the fact - and not as a preventive measure?
Contracting with Your Abuser
How can one negotiate with an abuser without incurring his wrath? What is the meaning of contracts "signed" with bullies? How can one motivate the abuser to keep his end of the bargain - for instance, to actually seek therapy and attend the sessions? And how efficacious is psychotherapy or counseling to start with?
Woorying about your health can make you sick. This article explores how Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can help you.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy For Shyness and Social Anxiety
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy, Edinburgh, teaches you how to make changes to the psychological and behaviour factors that exacerbate social anxiety and shyness. This article discusses how.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and Weight Problems
Did you know that CBT is also useful at helping people with weight and eating problems? A CBT approach is not about faddy diets but rather you developing an understanding of the psychological blocks that keep you locked in unhealthy eating and weight problems.
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy Skills to Help Yourself in Six Weeks
How Cognitive Behaviour Therapy can help you in as little as six weeks.
5 Common Areas Requiring Counseling
This article looks at 5 key areas in life a counselor can help with.
Tips for choosing a psychotherapist in London.
This article looks at the best way to find the right psychotherapist for your needs.
Power of Winning Attitudes by Dr. Louise Aznavour PhD Psychologist
Through readings, therapy sessions, teaching doctorate students and offering workshops to the public, Dr. Aznavour has collected a wealth of upbeat materials on winning styles and healthy living. Now she shares them in her website Stayingupbeat.com which will grow and be transformed continuously.
Agoraphobia And Cognitive Therapy
If you suffer from agoraphobia, cognitive therapy will benefit you. If your agoraphobia is severe, medication along with cognitive behavioral therapy will help you make tremendous improvement.
CBT Therapy and OCD
Karen runs a Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) therapy practice, near Aylesbury Bucks, where she treats people with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. This article discusses how CBT can help people cope with OCD.
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for OCD
Usually when I treat people for OCD at my CBT therapy practice in Hertfordshire, I find that the method that the person with OCD uses to cope with or solve their OCD, is the very factor keeping their OCD going.
Common Misconceptions about Psychotherapy
Debunks 6 common myths about therapy and therapists, including - you lie on a couch - therapists analyze everyone - therapists have sex with their clients - it's all about your childhood - ECT is painful and used to punish bad patients - "schizophrenia" is the same thing as having "multiple personalities"
Panic Disorder - Women More Prone to Panic Attacks
It is believed that as many as 30 percent of people who visit their doctor or hospital emergency unit complaining of chest pains, may actually be experiencing anxiety or panic attack symptoms, and not heart attacks or stroke. Once correctly diagnosed, panic disorders can be treated using a variety of anxiety medications, or more recently the preferred option, at least initially, is psychotherapy and behavioral or cognitive therapies.
Cognitive Therapies for Depression and Disorders
Cognitive therapy and related approaches such as NLP (neuro-linguistic-programming) are very effective at helping people recognise the thinking habits behind problems such as depression, anxiety, panic disorders and phobias.
Moving out of city
Generally is our decision, but sometimes is more difficult to take the decision than others. Some people will spend some years to make this decision, some will never do it.
Any daily problem that might need a professional advice
Sometimes you think that you have a problem, perhaps just a little one, but you don’t have anybody to talk about it, perhaps you don’t have the confidence to do it, or perhaps you just feel some shame to talk about it with somebody you know.
A Second opinion for our issues
Sometimes you have a problem, perhaps just a little one, but you don’t have anybody to talk about it, perhaps you don’t have the confidence to do it, or perhaps you just feel some shame to talk about it with somebody you know.
Types of online counseling demand
The usual demands we receive differ on its frequency and acuteness. Some people decide to start with periodic counseling sessions after facing a crisis. So they consider the online counseling as a routine that they keep (once or twice a week) during the time when they are solving their problematic situation (like a divorce or a grief process).
The Narcissist in Therapy
The narcissist sends a message to his psychotherapist: there is nothing you can teach me, I am as intelligent as you are, you are not superior to me, actually, we should both collaborate as equals in this unfortunate state of things in which we, inadvertently, find ourselves involved.
The Hateful Patient - Difficult Patients in Psychotherapy
Groves described four types of such undesirable patients: "dependent clingers" (codependents), "entitled demanders" (narcissists and borderlines), "manipulative help rejectors" (typically psychopaths and paranoids, borderlines and negativistic passive-aggressives), and "self-destructive deniers" (schizoids and schizotypals, for instance, or histrionics and borderlines).
Eclectic Psychotherapy
Mental health practitioners freely borrow tools and techniques from a myriad therapeutic systems.
Psychotherapy As Bulimia Treatment
Psychotherapy is effective in treating bulimia because the disorder is caused by psychological factors.
Depressed? Should you Take Medication or Receive Psychotherapy?
Are you confused about whether to treat your depression with psychotherapy or drugs? This article cuts to the chase by explaining that the sole use of either cognitive-behavioral therapy or antidepressants can be equally effective. However, combining psychotherapy WITH medication is much more likely to be more effective than using medication alone.
Freudians Slip in Battle to Shape French Minds
Psychological warfare has broken out over a book that calls on the French people to stop blaming their parents. The Livre Noir de la Psychanalyse (The Black Book of Psychoanalysis) claims French mind-healers have become 'fossilised' in the 'marginal, discredited' teachings of Sigmund...
A Brief Treatment on the Topic of Dance Therapy
About Dance Therapy. Somatic Psychology and Dance/Movement Therapy constitute a rapidly emerging field based on body-mind-spirit integration in the greater field of psychotherapy.
THE ENCHANTED SELF, That's Each of Us!
In my years as a psychologist, I have come to believe that most people seeking psychotherapy are unhappy. This is not only due to earlier hurts and traumas, as well as present frustrations and problems, but because they cannot access earlier happy moments often enough.
Your Abuser in Therapy
Your abuser "agrees" (is forced) to attend therapy. But are the sessions worth the effort? What is the success rate of various treatment modalities in modifying the abuser's conduct, let alone in "healing" or "curing" him? Is psychotherapy the panacea it is often made out to be - or a nostrum, as many victims of abuse claim? And why is it applied only after the fact - and not as a preventive measure?
Contracting with Your Abuser
How can one negotiate with an abuser without incurring his wrath? What is the meaning of contracts "signed" with bullies? How can one motivate the abuser to keep his end of the bargain - for instance, to actually seek therapy and attend the sessions? And how efficacious is psychotherapy or counseling to start with?