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First Principles / First Sessions / Personalised Learning / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 14, 2019 · Last modified January 12, 2024
“What is essential is invisible to the eye.” ~Fred Rogers In the last blog post, I wrote about the personal side of I’ve learned from the peaks and troughs of 2018. Today, I’d...
First Sessions / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published February 6, 2019 · Last modified June 26, 2020
I haven’t been able to hit publish for the past several weeks. I feel crippled by some intense glass walls. These walls seem to have voices that utter, “It’s not good enough,” “That’s nothing...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published December 1, 2018
When you are at the frontier, you feel alive. Being at the frontier, you experience an interplay between being awakened and a sense of surrender.
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published November 2, 2018 · Last modified September 1, 2023
In our careers as psychotherapists, there seems to be a particular trajectory that we strive to achieve. That is, to become specialised in a particular model of therapy. I mean, who’s to blame anyway?...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published October 9, 2018 · Last modified November 16, 2018
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,...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 14, 2018 · Last modified May 3, 2019
[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...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / First Principles / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 13, 2018 · Last modified April 30, 2019
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,...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 11, 2018 · Last modified May 3, 2019
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...
Clinical Supervision / Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published September 10, 2018 · Last modified January 16, 2019
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...
Deliberate Practice / Feedback Informed Treatment / First Principles / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 31, 2018 · Last modified June 20, 2019
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...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 24, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
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...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 10, 2018 · Last modified February 16, 2024
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...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published August 7, 2018 · Last modified February 16, 2024
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...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 20, 2018 · Last modified June 26, 2020
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).
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 16, 2018 · Last modified June 26, 2020
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...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 4, 2018 · Last modified June 27, 2020
Here’s chapter 3 of the book, The First Kiss. eBook is released today. Happy 4th of July to all American readers!
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 3, 2018 · Last modified June 27, 2020
Here’s chapter two of the book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model…
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published July 2, 2018 · Last modified June 26, 2020
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...
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 27, 2018 · Last modified June 27, 2020
Below is an introductory excerpt from the forthcoming book, The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model and Igniting First Sessions in Psychotherapy.
Deliberate Practice / First Sessions / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 18, 2018 · Last modified June 28, 2020
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...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published June 11, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
“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...
Deliberate Practice / Self-care / Uncategorized
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published May 28, 2018 · Last modified April 29, 2019
In the previous post, I talked about therapists being pushed to the point of exhaustion. A few weeks ago I came across a recent study on burn out and job satisfaction affecting client outcomes.
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published May 18, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
The more I work with therapists, the more I feel like they are silently stretched to the point of exhaustion. They are not just burned out…give they a moment of nothingness and they just...
1. Build a service based on individual’s needs, while employing a non-linear design process.~ Birgit Villa, Norway. (Birgit and her team of practitioners took a 10 hour bus journey from Norway to...
Deliberate Practice / Personalised Learning / Uncategorized
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 23, 2018 · Last modified August 5, 2019
We tend to place a premium on understanding and underrate the importance of remembering. We assume that once we comprehend something, we would be able to recall the content. In actual fact, what happens...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Self-care
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 15, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
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...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published April 6, 2018 · Last modified May 3, 2019
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...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 31, 2018 · Last modified February 5, 2019
“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...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals / Personalised Learning
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 26, 2018 · Last modified February 10, 2020
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...
Deliberate Practice / For Professionals
by Daryl Chow, MA, PhD · Published March 19, 2018 · Last modified November 13, 2018
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.
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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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