Here’s the Payoff
It all begins with an investment of faith. Organisations, supervisees, and practitioners whom I consult with know that, for the most part, they wouldn’t see immediate results. It’s a calculated gamble. I recently began...
Personal Learnings: Looking Back In Order To Move Forward (Part II of II)
“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...
Private Thoughts: Looking Back In Order to Move Forward (Part I of II)
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...
What It Means to Be At The Frontier
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.
What Does General Athleticism Got to Do With Psychotherapeutic Skills?
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?...
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...
What Burns You Out?
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.
10 Things I’ve Learned from the Achieving Clinical Excellence (ACE) Conference, 2018.
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...
Understanding vs. Remembering: Why It’s Important to Track (and Revisit) What You’ve Learned
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...
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...
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