Counselling Psychology

Narrative therapy has the potential to help clients understand their challenges as separate from their selves, shifting the focus to their inner strengths when managing a problem. Narrative Practices and Emotions provides a fresh perspective for new and experienced practitioners alike on how to combine classic narrative therapy with the latest scholarship on the mind-body connection.

Don’t settle for an unhappy life! Learn to recognize the symptoms of trauma. Rape, assault, combat, natural disaster, death of a loved one, or an accident or illness have lasting effects if unaddressed and unresolved. You can free yourself from the grip of these life events. There is hope! The Trauma Map reconnects you to your true self — the person you lost when traumatic experiences were left buried. Through five simple steps, Dr. Karol Darsa will show you how to make peace with your past and find the internal quietness that we all desire.

Being a coach is a deeply rewarding profession. Even the best coaches encounter moments of uncertainty and doubt. In Coaching Stories: Flowing and Falling of Being a Coach, Karen Dean and Sam Humphrey intimately share their varied experiences as executive coaches in 48 stories - some where they were flowing and glorious, and others where they were falling and ashamed.

Adult children of narcissists have been conditioned to downplay, dismiss, and ignore their experiences. This survival skill of staying below the radar can cause even very skilled clinicians to miss subtle opportunities to connect. It is paramount that clinicians understand the scope of these clients' experiences in order to support their healing—and to avoid the common clinical mistakes and pitfalls that often lead to inadvertently repeating harmful cycles.

Do you feel like your soul is being crushed each time you interact with an egomaniacal someone in your life? It’s time to seek change and focus on YOU.

“If only I could get some closure…” If you’ve found yourself saying these words, you’re not alone. When you’ve lost a relationship, a job, or a loved one, closure can seem as elusive as it is necessary. Psychotherapist and relationship coach Gary McClain says it’s one of the most common—and important—issues his clients bring up. In this empathetic and insightful guide, Dr. McClain explains why the promise of closure is so appealing—and why it’s not always all it’s cracked up to be.

Peter Fraenkel presents a practical, creative, integrative approach that combines action- and insight-oriented techniques to help last-chance couples manage conflict, modulate intense negative emotions, address power struggles, develop mutual compassion, and restore emotional intimacy and pleasurable connection. Special attention is paid to developing a collaborative therapeutic alliance when partners have little motivation for therapy or faith that it can be effective. Through engaging in "nonbinding experiments in possibility," partners can then better evaluate whether to "stay or go."

"El Hombre en Busca de Sentido" es una poderosa y conmovedora obra escrita por Viktor E. Frankl, un sobreviviente del Holocausto y un psiquiatra notable. El libro narra las experiencias de Frankl en los campos de concentración nazis durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y explora profundamente la cuestión fundamental de encontrar significado en medio del sufrimiento y la adversidad.

The impact of visual images all around us on clients who suffer from eating disorders; using phototherapy as a means of healing.

Children and families burdened with attachment disruption, emotional distress, or psychological disorders need effective and immediate assistance. They do not have the time to wait for long-term interventions or developmental changes to improve the parent-child relationship. Here, psychologists Elizabeth A. Sylvester and Kat Scherer provide the most effective approach in such situations: interventions that impact the entire family at relational, emotional, and cognitive-behavioral levels.

Do you need self-compassion? Learn how to practice self-compassion in recovery, and heal your deepest core wounds. Compassionate Recovery is a childhood trauma and an addiction recovery book. This integrated, universal, and inclusive approach will guide and empower you to recover from any addiction. If you or someone you love suffers from addictions, listen to this audiobook. Healing begins now.

This book is based on real-life counselling sessions with various clients who were suffering with low mood or depression. The book shows a scripted conversation between counsellor and client over five counselling sessions. There are also counsellor notes throughout each session to help the listener understand why the counsellor asked particular questions or responded in a certain way. The therapy used is called "Solution-Focused Therapy". It is a brief therapy that is designed to focus on the resources of the client.

Manage anxiety effectively with simple, practical, life-giving strategies to find equilibrium and focus on what you love.

This classic guide has helped tens of thousands of therapists integrate play therapy and family therapy techniques in clinical practice.

Wie läuft eigentlich so eine Psychotherapie ab? Michaela Huber, international erfahrene und vielfach für ihre Arbeit ausgezeichnete Psychotherapeutin, gibt Antwort darauf. Die Leser erleben die ersten Sitzungen einer Therapie. Sie erfahren, wie es sein könnte, sich aufrichtig mit sich selbst zu konfrontieren und werden mit überraschenden Anregungen und vielleicht völlig neuen Erkenntnisse über sich selbst belohnt. Dabei greift Huber typische Anliegen aus realen Therapiestunden auf, jeweils mit genauen Hinweisen, wie damit allein zu Hause weitergearbeitet werden kann.

Apoyado en un exhaustivo conocimiento de la obra de Fritz Perls –que ya abordó en su aclamado libro Gestalt; terapia de autenticidad–, Pedro de Casso nos ofrece en esta obra una visión personal y concatenada de los principales elementos del legado de Fritz Perls. Ello le permite profundizar en conceptos clave como «Gestalt», «self», «darse cuenta» o en el papel de la «actitud», magistralmente descritos con ejemplos vivos de su práctica terapéutica.

The implications of Erickson's approaches to hypnotherapy and psychotherapy are vast. This concise audiobook presents the four major developments that emanated from his work. It is through understanding these views that you may discover ways to further implement his ideas and techniques in your practice. Milton H. Erickson, MD was an American psychiatrist who pioneered several indirect or permissive hypnosis techniques. He also developed several naturalistic techniques using metaphors and stories.

Según los “altos ideales del amor romántico”, la “vida real en pareja” sólo podrá ser imperfecta. Por eso hay que entender el amor real, es decir, la contradicción entre la atracción y el rechazo, entre lo que damos y pedimos, entre la certeza de estar y la duda, entre la cercanía anhelada y la distancia necesaria.

Have you experienced a breakup? Have you been stunned in silence hearing someone say “It’s over”? Have you spent countless nights trying to understand what went wrong? Breakups are very traumatizing experiences, especially for men, who may not be used to this experience. Get this audiobook now and let me take you through the perilous and gloomy world of breakups. Let my experiences and the experiences of a lot of people I have counseled and talked with help you get over. It may take another man to help another man and this audiobook is fitted for your healing journey.

Why does an international footballer with the World at his feet decide to take his own life? On November 10, 2009, the German national goalkeeper Robert Enke stepped in front of a passing train. He was 32 years old. Viewed from the outside, Enke had it all. Here was a professional goalkeeper who had played for a string of Europe's top clubs, including Jose Mourinho's Benfica and Louis Van Gaal's Barcelona. Enke was destined to be his country's first choice for years. But beneath the veneer of success lay a darker story.