10 Frontiers Problems to Solve
Date: 23rd June 2020. I started writing the first draft of this list of problems to solve in April 2019. There were like 15-17 problems at first… and that was more than a year...
Category: For Professionals
The Music of Psychotherapy: Learning in a Wicked Environment
I often get a bewildered look when I tell people that the first place I visited in US was Kansas City. It was also the first time I met K. Anders Ericsson. In 2010,...
“Is the Scientific Paper a Fraud?”
“First ethical rule: If you see fraud and do not say fraud, you are a fraud.” ~ Nassim Taleb, Antifragile. I’m in the midst of writing up a long overdue research paper. As you...
Instead of The “10,000” Hour Rule, Why Not The “60” Hour Rule?
By now, many of you would have heard about the 10,000-hour rule, made popular by Malcolm Gladwell’s book, The Outlier. This was largely based on K. Anders Ericsson and colleagues seminal work in 1993,...
How Do You Grow as a Clinical Supervisor?
[note: if you are reading this from your inbox, please view in your browser in order to watch the video below] We sometimes over-extrapolate the idea of “parallel process.”[1] Maybe we think that therapists often...
A System of Practice
Join our in-depth, cutting-edge learning platform, Reigniting Clinical Supervision (RCS). Registration closes this Friday, 3rd of May 2019. We begin on Monday, 6th of May 2019. If you are a subscriber to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development,...
Which Way to Go?
Join our in-depth, cutting-edge learning platform, Reigniting Clinical Supervision (RCS). Registration closes on 3rd of May 2019. Course begins on 6th of May 2019.. If you are a subscriber to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development, remember to...
Beyond “Case-By-Case” Clinical Supervision
Therapists are hungry to get better. But did you know that 60-90% of therapists do not develop clear individualised learning objectives in clinical supervision?[1] (And no, improving engagement is not specific enough). Without clarity...
Value What We Measure, or Measure What We Value?
Do we value what we measure, or do we measure what we value? This is not a play on words. It turns out that we often end up valuing what is easy to measure...
Our Personal Development is an Act of Professionalism
For the purposes of our professionally defined boundaries and distinctions, we separate the personal and the professional. When we say that someone is a professional, we not only imply someone who has the...
Follow the Spark
The paperback of the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy is now available! The ebook from various retailers (Kindle, Apple, Kobo, etc.) with different reading formats is...
Follow The Pain
The paperback of the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy is now available! The ebook from various retailers (Kindle, Apple, Kobo, etc.) with different reading formats is...
Avoid TBU (“True But Useless”) Information
Welcome back to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD) blog. Today, another snippet from the recently released book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy. (Available here with various retailers).
Differences in Schools of Psychotherapy, and Why We Need Them.
Note: We take a breather from the topic of first sessions in today’s blog. A handful more chapters from the newly released book, The First Kiss, will be shared here in the coming weeks...
The 4P’s versus The 1P
Here’s chapter 3 of the book, The First Kiss. eBook is released today. Happy 4th of July to all American readers!
The Perils of an Intake Model
Here’s chapter two of the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model…
Intake Second (Not First)
Over the next few blogs, I will share with you excerpts from the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model… Each chapter is to the point. This book will be in ebook and...
Undoing the Intake Model in Psychotherapy
Below is an introductory excerpt from the forthcoming book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy.
What Therapy Is (Or Isn’t).
The psychodynamic camp says, “Your past is the problem.” The third wave mindfulness therapist says “Mindlessness is the problem.” The emotion-focused therapist says, “Your unresolved feelings are the problem.” The pioneering team at Mental...
The Personal and The Professional
“The personal cannot be divorced from the professional,” says author Parker Palmer.[1] While we teach methods leading to competencies as a psychotherapist. In order to ignite the work within the walls of “professionalism”, we...
The Work Before the Work
How do you prepare yourself to enter into the space of therapy? How do you make room not just for your client, but for you, to facilitate the entrance of emotional safety, the safety...
Get Tools or Get Good?
I have two obsessions. Therapy, and music.I’m a big music enthusiast and have been playing music in a band since the dawn of raging hormones.I must confess. All my adult life, I suffered from...
Blackbox Thinking For Psychotherapists (Part II of II)
“My characterization of a loser is someone who, after making a mistake, doesn’t introspect, doesn’t exploit it, feels embarrassed and defensive rather than enriched with a new piece of information, and tries to explain...
Blackbox Thinking For Psychotherapists (Part I of II)
With each plane crash, future flights become safer. With each therapy failure, we feel less safe with ourselves. We are cast into a sea of self-doubt. Our confidences plummet; our competence is called into...
Stay Invested In…
When in therapy, stay invested in, 1. Defining and Redefining a problem; 2. Coming to a consensus of what is the problem; 3. Resolving the problem.
To Get Useful Feedback, Seek Contrast: Compare Within the Person’s Experience, Not Between Persons.
Previously, we’ve talked about how to elicit feedback, and how to receive feedback. But the reality is, in clinical practice, you know how hard it is to elicit useful feedback. Asking a client what...
Vanity Metrics: Do We Value What We Measure, or Measure What We Value?
Those of you who work in agencies and large organisations know this. You are asked to keep score on stuff that doesn’t matter to you or your clients. We call this KPIs (key performance...
What Does Deliberate Practice Look Like? Onstage, Backstage, and Offstage.
“What does deliberate practice look like?” Thanks to Ivan for a great question! “Lots of people want to be the noun,” says artist and writer, Austin Kleon, “without doing the verb.” First, I want...
What is the Outcome to Focus on When Someone is Dying?
What is the outcome you will focus on when someone is dying? One of the most striking experiences I had was watching my grand auntie spent her last days in palliative care. She was...
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