As a psychotherapy training nerd, I’m always looking for good training opportunities. What’s the most training one can find on a limited time and budget? I recently talked about this with Carol Odsess, PhD. Dr. Odsess is a psychotherapy trainer in Albany, California who specializes in EMDR and Energy Psychology. (www.carolodsess.com)
Collaborative Couple Therapy With High Conflict Couples
Ever wonder how to help your high conflict couples turn high-velocity attacks into opportunities for intimacy and connection? Collaborative Couple Therapist Dan Wile has some tips.
Fact and Fiction in Psychology
In 1992 I was a Visiting Fellow in the Psychology Department at the University of Western Australia in Perth. For two months nothing was demanded of me other than to talk to the staff and students of the Department in a learned and wise manner, which is easy to do even if you are neither. I was asked one favour which was to give a lecture to the whole department on a subject of my choosing. Can it be any…
Working in the Here-and-Now of the Therapeutic Relationship
Working in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship requires therapists to be fully engaged, and take risks in revealing themselves. But utilizing the transference and counter-transference makes for rewarding and powerful therapy.
Molyn Leszcz on Group Psychotherapy
Molyn Leszcz, co-author (with Irvin Yalom) of the 5th edition of The Theory and Practice of Group Psychotherapy, discusses the core principles and techniques of this powerful but underutilized modality.
Interacting Sensitivities in Couples Therapy
It is a typical night at Tom and Betsys house. Tom has his nose in a newspaper. Betsy is leaning in the door of his study trying to talk to him, getting more and more frustrated at his periodic, vague “Uh huh.” After a few minutes of trying to entice him into a conversation, Betsy starts complaining, and then criticizing him for being cold. Tom snaps, “Cant you just once leave me alone?” Betsy yells, he withdraws further, and Betsy…
The Lake Wobegon Effect
How good a therapist are you? Tony Rousmaniere shares some sobering statistics and a few tools to address caseload deterioration.
Eysenck, Rogers and Psychotherapy Effectiveness
In the 1970s I worked as a psychology lecturer in Hans Eysenck’s department at the Institute of Psychiatry, London. He was a controversial figure, quiet and introverted when met face to face, but on the academic stage a formidable and ruthless opponent. Rod Buchanan’s recent biography, Playing with Fire. The Controversial Career of Hans J Eysenck, nicely captures the complexity of the man, part prolific scientist, and part inveterate showman. Whether it was race and IQ, cancer and smoking…
Psychotherapy outcomes: The best therapy or the best therapist?
How can our clients pick the most effective therapist? They can’t. There is no industry standard for tracking and reporting psychotherapy outcomes. This won’t last. Regulators and consumers are going to demand public accounting of treatment effectiveness. If I have the right to ask my surgeon for their success rate, then why can’t my clients ask for mine?
Preventing Psychotherapy Dropouts with Client Feedback
One beginning therapist shares his success with the Session Rating Scale in improving his practice.