Six Self-Hypnosis Guidelines to Create Lasting Change in Yourself
Douglas Flemons • 1/12/2018
By Douglas Flemons - Got flow? As a psychotherapist specializing in hypnosis, I work at times with elite performers—people who've spent long years learning and honing a skill that they can carry out with precision and grace. Except when they can't. Except when, with their mind and body out of sync, they lose concentration, coordination, and confidence.
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A Process of Inquiry That Promotes Empathic Connection
Douglas Flemons • 9/19/2017
By Douglas Flemons - Suicide assessment is a high-stakes process infused with uncertainty. However, even the best scales can be unreliable when they’re completed in the midst of an emotional crisis. Rather than outsourcing your decision-making to an instrument, it's important that therapists learn how to conduct a conversational evaluation that builds on their therapeutic skills.
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Practical Applications for Beating Anxiety and Ruminating Thoughts
Douglas Flemons • 8/31/2017
By Douglas Flemons - Incorporating some basic Taoist and Zen assumptions and practices in our work can dramatically alter how we engage with clients and what we do to make a difference. We can't deliver Enlightenment, but we can help clients experience greater freedom in how they experience and relate to their problem.
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Identifying the Inquiries to Make
Douglas Flemons • 11/5/2013
I feel unprepared to make a proper suicide assessment with my clients. I’m nervous that I’ll neglect to ask, or the client won’t tell me, something vital to making the right clinical decision. Can you recommend an objective measure for reliably determining suicidality?
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Talking on the Edge: Assessing the Risk of Suicide
Douglas Flemons • 9/5/2013
Most clinicians already know the basic questions to ask about a client’s suicidality, but it’s important to go beyond a rote assessment to get a fuller picture of suicide risk.
Magazine Article
Authors:
DANIEL J SIEGEL, M.D.
STEVEN HAYES, PH.D.
REID WILSON, PH.D.
ROBERT SCAER, MD
DOUGLAS FLEMONS, PHD, LMFT
MICHAEL VENTURA
Authors:
DANIEL J SIEGEL, M.D.
STEVEN HAYES, PH.D.
REID WILSON, PH.D.
ROBERT SCAER, MD
DOUGLAS FLEMONS, PHD, LMFT
MICHAEL VENTURA
Authors:
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
KATY BUTLER, MA
DOUGLAS FLEMONS, PHD, LMFT
JEFFREY KOTTLER, PHD
MARY SYKES WYLIE, PHD
Authors:
RICHARD C. SCHWARTZ, PHD
RICHARD SIMON, PH.D.
KATY BUTLER, MA
DOUGLAS FLEMONS, PHD, LMFT
JEFFREY KOTTLER, PHD
MARY SYKES WYLIE, PHD
Authors:
BILL O'HANLON, MS, LMFT
BARRY DUNCAN, PSY.D.
KATY BUTLER, MA
DOUGLAS FLEMONS, PHD, LMFT
YVONNE DOLAN, MA
Authors:
BILL O'HANLON, MS, LMFT
BARRY DUNCAN, PSY.D.
KATY BUTLER, MA
DOUGLAS FLEMONS, PHD, LMFT
YVONNE DOLAN, MA
Finding Flow - Embracing your worst can bring out your best
Douglas Flemons • 5/1/2007
Learning to enhance performance by embracing doubt and fear.
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Helping Clients Experience Their Inner Freedom
Douglas Flemons • 5/1/2004
Dualistic thinking separates us from our own experience and offers the illusion that we can achieve peace and pleasure by somehow casting out our problems.
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