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Frontiers Friday Series / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 24, 2023 · Last modified May 3, 2024
Note: This is originally from Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 24 Nov. 2023 Not everything needs to be a self-improvement project. Not everything is about development, improvement, or growth. It’s...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 29, 2023 · Last modified July 2, 2024
Note: This is originally from Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 29 Sept. 2023 Here’s the video version: This is a Q&A video and podcast series based on a question from...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 18, 2023 · Last modified July 2, 2024
Note: This is originally from Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 18 Aug. 2023 Frontiers Radio podcast is back! Here’s the video version: This is a Q&A video based on a...
Personalised Learning / Structuring Sessions
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 12, 2023 · Last modified April 21, 2024
In the previous essay, we addressed the three key elements on how you can structure your sessions. The reason we want to take care of how we structure our sessions is because we want to create an...
Personalised Learning / Structuring Sessions
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 7, 2023 · Last modified July 2, 2024
Note: This article was originally published in Substack on 7 Apr. 2023 I’ve listened to hundreds of hours of therapy sessions. When sessions lack impact, a handful of reasons are at play. But at...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 10, 2023 · Last modified April 21, 2024
How to reduce dropouts from psychotherapy and inviting therapists to bring everything to bear.
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 10, 2023 · Last modified April 21, 2024
Before ChatGPT took the world by storm a few months ago in Nov 2022, there was ELIZA. Invented by a professor in MIT named Joseph Weizenbaum, Eliza was a simple computer program, a chatbot...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / Personalised Learning / Structuring Sessions
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 7, 2022 · Last modified April 17, 2023
How Do You Close a Session in a Meaningful Way? In the previous 2 parts on Thinking in Thirds, I’ve detailed about the process of Stage 1 of creating an invitational beginning and Stage 2...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / Personalised Learning / Structuring Sessions
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 6, 2022 · Last modified April 17, 2023
In Part I of Thinking in Thirds, I talked about the rule of three in various domains like the performing arts, storytelling and music, and how segmenting the therapy hour into thirds can be structurally...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 5, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In this week’s Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool. If you have missed the...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Structuring Sessions
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 5, 2022 · Last modified November 24, 2023
The Rule of Three in Performing Arts, Photography and Music. One of the primary ways to think about how you structure your therapy hour is to think in three parts. In the performing arts,...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 30, 2022
Not all feedback is created equal. Who specifically do you trust to give you feedback about your development? It’s important to distinguish between performance feedback and learning feedback. Feedback from clients are performance feedback, used to specifically tune...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 23, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In Therapy Tip of the Week #6, we continue on the topic of improving working alliance. Here’s my recommendation, when seeking for feedback, avoid talking about… you! If you have missed the previous videos...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Podcast / Structuring Sessions
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 23, 2022 · Last modified April 17, 2023
The First Training on Shaping the Arch of a Psychotherapy Session to Make It Come AliveIf you are on the move, listen to the Frontiers Radio audio version, or anywhere else you get your podcasts. “Every...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 9, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
Dissonance can be a powerful ingredient for learning. How do we challenge our intuition in order to listen to our client’s unspokens in order to foster a deeper connection with them? In this video,...
Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 2, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In this week’s therapy tip of the week, we are going to talk about the subject that you as a psychotherapist would be more than familiar with–except that it’s not what you expect. ⏳...
Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 26, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
As psychotherapists, it’s easy to get lost in our heads. Our pet theories end up dominating and preventing us from being in touch with the person in front of us. In this Therapy Tip...
First Principles / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 19, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
A client said that this idea of thinking in Seasons changed the experience of her struggles. She just came back from being away for several months due to her work. She was finding it hard...
First Principles / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 12, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
In this series on Therapy Tip of the Week, we’ll provide psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists one practical tip at each episode.My idea of giving you this is not so much as to prescribe to...
I’m not comfortable with labels. As a musician, I disliked the idea of categorising artists I listen to into genres. As a therapist, I’m rarely imposed a label or a DSM-V. We don’t like...
“It takes two to know one,” ~ Gregory Bateson Some years ago at a therapy workshop, we were asked to go into small groups and someone was to be the therapist and another to...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 17, 2022 · Last modified April 1, 2024
Reviewing the previous year in June seems less like a reflection and more like an income tax review. Even though this is 6 months delayed, I’m still going to do this. For those who...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 3, 2022
Most of the time, we are solving for specifics. In the natural sciences, however, nature does not solve for specifics, but it solves for patterns. Paraphrasing Agriculturist Wendell Berry (1981), Janine Benus described the process...
First Principles / First Sessions / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 28, 2022 · Last modified July 22, 2024
I’m amazed it has taken me about 2 decades of writing case-notes to finally come up with this system for myself. I’ve been using this particular format to capture what I call “evergreen” information,...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy (REP)
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 4, 2022
Wired magazine has a video series where they get experts from various domains to explain complicated concepts—from blockchain to machine learning, music harmony to sleep—in 5 different levels: What’s really interesting is to listen...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 28, 2022 · Last modified November 3, 2024
There’s a big difference between what’s right and what’s right for you. This is why deliberate practice (DP) is not a cookie cutter approach, but it is highly individualised. Figuring out what’s right for...
In this video, I’d walk you through 7 Tips on how to get started with using the Obsidian notetaking app. Time Stamps: Intro (00:00)Why as a Psychologist I take learning notes (00:18)5 Key Benefits...
Frontiers Friday Series / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 8, 2022 · Last modified May 11, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 8 Jan. 2022 PART I Reflection: If learning = transfer, what are the top 3 things you’ve learned last year...
Since 2013, I’ve been capturing weekly short notes on what I’ve learned as a psychotherapist. I wished I’ve started earlier in career. In one of my first few posts on Frontiers, I talked about...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Podcast
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published January 4, 2022 · Last modified July 2, 2024
This is a keynote address given by Daryl Chow, Ph.D. for a virtual conference hosted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Cumulative evidence in psychotherapy suggests that we not only do not...
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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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