Is Mindfulness Useful in Therapy?
What is Mindfulness? Currently, this fashionable catchphrase is everywhere and promoted as the cure for everything from...
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Can Depression Sometimes Be Helpful
Isolation has Forced us to Face Ourselves Depression is a known phenomenon; we know what it looks like and what it does...
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Contact Between Therapy Sessions
Why do therapists not allow or limit contact outside of arranged session times? Surely the more contact the better and...
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The Fixed Fighters & The Fuzzy Flighty
Threat Management (5) In this final blog of the series on common strategies that everyday people use to survive situations...
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Controlling Social Space
Threat Management (4) In summary so far, the responses outlined above are the immediate moving aggressively towards...
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Collapsing to Survive
Threat Management (3) When working with people adapting to horrible circumstances and then supporting them to make a...
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Pleasing Others to Cope
Threat Management (2) Surely, there must be more than just our automatic biological reaction to immediate danger. In...
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Beyond Fight/Flight/Freeze
Threat Management (1) We are generally quite familiar with descriptions of our Fight or Flight response to immediate...
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