Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
At the Bleeding Edge of Development, Reaping Benefit for Our Clients.
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 4, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
The future of our work as a caring profession isn’t going to be subjugated or outsourced to artificial intelligence or driverless cars. Instead, our work is going to matter even more in the future...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 28, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
“Those who control their passion and make it work for them have presence. Those who fail to control their passion look like excited, nervous teenagers. Those who have no passion at all have no...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 14, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
The aim of Frontiers of Professional Development (FPD) became clear to me only a few months back, even though FPD has been around for a few years now. At the heart of FPD is...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 5, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2019
Singer Billy Joel said, “I am, as I’ve said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.” Being a good enough[1] therapist is compelling. Besides, there are real upsides of being...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 30, 2017 · Last modified April 13, 2020
Don’t study the end result. Study the first step. ~ Josh Shipp One of the most challenging first steps in your pathway of professional development isn’t figuring out where you need to go, but...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 23, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
I was consulting with an agency just last week, and one of the therapists said this to me, “I want to get better. This is important… If I don’t know this about my outcomes,...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 15, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
Over the last few decades, much research has been published based on Carol Dweck’s idea of Mindset,as summarised in her book, Mindset: A New Psychology of Success, which mainly contrasts fixed mindset (“You have...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 8, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
The biggest barrier towards your professional development is not on how to get from zero to 10, but from zero to one.[1] Many therapists struggle with systematically measuring their outcomes. Because of this, they...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 24, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
Empathy has a hard time seeing a bigger picture. That is why fundraisers for charities do better when they tell a compelling story of an individual child with no access to clean water, rather...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 19, 2017 · Last modified May 3, 2019
Try opening up your latest iPhone or Samsung mobile device. It’s near impossible. That’s because tech giants are making phones harder to repair. Apple insists that their iPhones are so complicated that third-party repairers...
Deliberate Practice / First Principles / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 10, 2017 · Last modified February 17, 2020
In a previous post, I’ve talked about the importance of Developing First Principles Before Methods. I’ve also talked about the ways you can develop first principles from challenging situations, therapeutic mistakes, and guidance from...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / First Principles / First Sessions / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 6, 2017 · Last modified June 26, 2020
Try this little thought experiment: Take a piece of paper, and in the next 2-3mins, in no more than 2-3 paragraphs, write down your philosophy of what guides you in therapy. Most of us...
Deliberate Practice / First Principles / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 27, 2017 · Last modified December 18, 2018
As a field, we were obsessed with methods, approaches, tools, theoretical orientations, and schools of thought. Money poured into establishing treatment efficacy differences have not yield much fruit; therapists investment in time, effort and...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 6, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
In a previous post, I talked about the iterative cycle that we can take in our professional development (click HERE to revisit it, and download the free infographic). Here’s something that I’ve recently revisited that struck...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 28, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
In a previous post, I advocated the need to go beyond seeking the help from one individual. It is up to you to Build a Portfolio of Mentors. It doesn’t happen to you; it’s...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 15, 2017 · Last modified April 1, 2024
There is no doubt, psychotherapists value professional development. After all, we are in the business of human development. We prize growth and change not only in our clients, but in ourselves. But the truth...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 6, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
This is not some Catholic self-flagellating, guilt inducing exercise. Rather, if we see with fresh eyes, every moment of difficulty that we face in a session with you client, presents a gift to you. These...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 30, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
I get the goose bumps when I hear the type of questions discerning therapists raise at my workshops. It strikes me every time not only because these are the questions I’ve been pondering about...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 24, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
For songwriters, the perennial pillar is song craft. It is not technical mastery. A songwriter knows that technical agility at an instrument is not going help him create a better song. It’s easier to...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 22, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
Seek out a portfolio of supervisors, mentors and coaches. The apprenticeship model of clinical supervision certainly has its merits. It takes us beyond what we read and what we derive from experience in clinical practice....
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 15, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
What is our real work? It’s easy to think that the role of a psychotherapist is to treat a person or help our clients change. Indeed, that may be the outcome we hope for....
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 16, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
What if one of the ways of transforming our practice in psychotherapy is to stop calling it talk therapy, but to see it as a performance ritual? What if we stop talking, and start...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 6, 2017 · Last modified June 20, 2019
I’m going to re-look at some deeply held truths we were taught to believe about professional development in the field of psychotherapy. Actually, if these truths are closely examined, they are perpetuated lies.
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 15, 2017 · Last modified August 26, 2019
“I always wanted to be someone. Now I think I should have been more specific.” ~Comedian Lily Tomlin One of the most rudimentary, yet the most difficult thing to do in your professional development...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 21, 2017 · Last modified November 13, 2018
Do you know someone who seems to know everything? When you share a new idea with this friend or colleague, they give you that “I-knew-it-all-along” kind of nod and smirk? This person is more...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 30, 2016 · Last modified June 20, 2019
In the previous post, we addressed the issue of how to receive feedback. In this post, we take a step back and address how we can elicit feedback.
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 27, 2016 · Last modified June 20, 2019
“How was your meal sir?” “Fine, thanks.” I lied. Five minutes into the meal, the waitress comes back to me. She’s wondering why I haven’t touched my pasta one bit since she last enquired.
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 22, 2016 · Last modified February 12, 2019
Not only does his brilliance shine in his collaborations, he’s also good at coming up with words. Heard of the term “ambient music“? He came up with it. Heard of the word “Scenius”? Probably not....
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 20, 2016 · Last modified December 22, 2022
When this guy was in the room, I played better. We first met Randolf Arriola when I was about 17 years old. My bandmates and I saved up enough money to go into a...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 9, 2016 · Last modified August 26, 2019
This is for those who are thinking about seeking help. Maybe you are wondering, unsure of who to go to and what to look out for. Or maybe you just need a reason to give...
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Daryl Chow, MA, Ph.D. (Psych) is a practicing psychologist and trainer. He is a senior associate of the International Center for Clinical Excellence (ICCE). He devotes his time to workshops, consultations, and researches on the development of expertise and highly effective psychotherapists, helping practitioners to accelerate learning and improve client outcomes.
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