Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development
At the Bleeding Edge of Development, Reaping Benefit for Our Clients.
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 17, 2023 · Last modified May 2, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 17 Mar. 2023 PART I 📕Must-Read: Premature Termination in Psychotherapy: Strategies for Engaging Clients and Improving Outcomes This 2015 book...
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...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 3, 2023 · Last modified May 2, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 3 Feb. 2023 PART I Why So Serious About Humour? THIS IS NOT ABOUT BEING FUNNY. Why cover this...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 14, 2022 · Last modified April 21, 2024
One of the key areas related to our developmental efforts is in the realm of clinical supervision. Clinical supervision is the signature pedagogy of choice in psychotherapy. I’ve benefited a great deal from the...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 9, 2022 · Last modified May 2, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 09 Dec. 2022 PART I One of the most profound ideas I’ve learned to take very seriously is the...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 21, 2022 · Last modified May 2, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 21 Oct. 2022 PART I Writing about existence is like writing about writing. This particular series is not exclusive...
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. ⏳...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 26, 2022 · Last modified November 16, 2023
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 26 Aug. 2022 PART I As a child, my uncle used to perform magic tricks for my cousins and...
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...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 6, 2022 · Last modified November 16, 2023
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 06 Aug. 2022 PART I Reflection: Think of the people in your caseload who are highly sensitive individuals. Does...
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...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 25, 2022 · Last modified May 28, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 25 Jun. 2022 PART I Reflection: HALT. Take a moment to check your body budget. Are you Hungry, Angry,...
“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...
Note: This article was originally published in Substack on 6 May 2022 PART I p/s: Happy Mother’s Day Reflection: What do you consume? The measure of what you output is based on the measure...
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 9, 2022 · Last modified May 28, 2024
Note: This is a compilation of Frontier Friday, a weekly Substack published, originally released on 9 Apr. 2022 PART I Client’s Point of ViewWhat is it like from the other side? This next few...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 1, 2022 · Last modified April 7, 2022
Renowned improv teacher, Keith Johnstone says the following: Instead of telling actors that they must be good listeners (which is confusing), we should say, ‘Be altered by what’s said.’ Good theatre is like tennis in...
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,...
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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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