Contributed by Steve Andreas
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The Playful Therapist
7 Clinicians Share Their Best Strategies
Five Strategies for When Therapy is Stuck
Bypassing the Limits of Feelings, Judgments, and Language
When therapy goes wrong, it’s typically because we’ve entered our clients’ trance, joining them in their myopic misery. Therapy typically hangs on your ability to demonstrate more skill and awareness in using the trancelike qualities of human communication to move beyond the tunnel vision that can stall therapy and prevent change and healing from taking place. Read More
Adjusting the Unconscious
Making Quick Work of Lasting Change
Some claim that much of psychotherapy is a pseudoscience, promising far more than it can deliver, with lengthy, expensive interventions for the common problems clients present. What if we could quickly bring about lasting therapeutic change by modifying a few, simple unconscious processes? Read More
Detoxifying Criticism
How to Help Clients Gain Perspective
Solutions for Moving Beyond the Therapeutic Impasse
Three Strategies for Making Progress with Stuck Clients
When clients get immersed in their problems, they often suffer from a kind of tunnel vision, focused on a small range of experiences, with their bad feelings taking center stage. When therapy goes wrong, it’s typically because we’ve entered our clients’ trances with them, joining them in their myopic misery. Once caught in such a trance, we need to break the spell, broaden our vision, and open ourselves to new possibilities. Here are three ways to do it. Read More
Letting Go of Hate
How to help clients change unconscious responses
VIDEO: Single-Session Cures with Anxiety Problems
Are You Asking the Right Questions?
When it comes to understanding your clients’ inner world, words can only go so far. Clients can use words to tell you what they’re conscious of (“My panic attacks come from nowhere!”), but they can’t tell you what they aren’t conscious of (“My panic attacks come from a preconscious desire to avoid embarrassment.”) The unconscious, where the origins of panic and anxiety reside, isn’t easily accessed through traditional talk therapy. Read More
Making Creativity in the Consulting Room Productive
Steve Andreas on the Clinical Mastery of Virginia Satir
Steve Andreas
Steve Andreas, MA, was a developer of NLP methods and the author of Six Blind Elephants, Transforming Your Self, and Virginia Satir: the Patterns of Her Magic. He was coauthor, with his wife Connirae, of Heart of the Mind and Change Your Mind—and Keep the Change.