Want to be bold and brave? I know you’ve been feeling the effects of our world. Holy Cow! It’s seems more nuttier than usual. This weekend I got news overload. I just heard about too many tragedies – saw pictures of too many beautiful people who were lost to horrible accidents, random violence, and scary […]
“You are allowed to feel! You are allowed!” I was “giving permission” to Betty, a client who was attempting to allow herself to be angry for the first time. She closed her eyes tight, tried to breathe, and stay with me, but panic arose. “What might happen? This feels horrible!” I asked her to describe
Do you want to find a therapist but don’t know where to start? What is a therapist? A therapist meets with individuals, couples, and families while or after they go through a difficult situation or there is a mental, emotional, or spiritual concern or a problem. The words therapist, psychotherapist, and counselor can be interchanged. Problems can range from
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Goodbye Self Hate, Don’t Come Back! Below I give you an example of a powerful resistance letter. I received the idea from other therapists (namely, David Epston) and have been using it in my practice for some time. In the letter, the people are invited to first tell about the problem’s influence on their lives
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Narrative Therapy Lingo Post structuralism– The idea that meaning, knowledge and concepts are socially constructed and changeable. In the same way, the idea that there is no, one true reality, reality depends on the perceiver. In fact, this construction of meaning or perception of reality, can and does change all the time in every moment.
Narrative Therapy was developed by social workers from Australia and New Zealand, Michael White and David Epston. It is derived from postmodernism, social constructuralism, and feminist theory. Michael White brought together the ideas of social and learning theorists, such as Bruner, Myerhoff, Bandera, Mears, Erikson, Vygotsky, Derrida, and Foucault, and applied them to therapeutic practice
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