Mental Health Counselling

So you've decided you want to try therapy. But which type of therapy is best for you? Do you know your CBT from your DBT, your cognitive analytic therapy from your psychoanalysis? Talk Yourself Better cuts through the confusion when it comes to choosing a therapist. Exploring all the different kinds of therapy available, Ariane Sherine offers an entertaining insight into each type, including interviews with celebrities, writers and therapists themselves to help make taking that first step a whole lot easier.

The modern family is one of the most complicated systems we navigate as children and parents. In Home is Where the Start Is, Richard Hogan teaches you how to free yourself from negative experiences you have had in the past, to find true happiness and meaning in the future. Packed with fascinating case studies from Richard's clinical practice, he offers innovative, proactive and practical strategies for dealing with a wide range of issues. This book will give you the tools to recognise negative patterns from childhood, and avoid them when it comes to making your own family.

Why do we do the things we do, think the thoughts we think, and feel the ways that we feel? Dr. Andrea Bonior has spent more than 15 years in the field of psychology helping people discover "what makes them tick". In her clinical practice, as well as various mental health agencies and counseling centers, she draws upon sound psychological principles to address anxiety disorders and depression, relationship issues, grief and loss, and other issues. As a mental health columnist and public speaker, Dr. Bonior encourages people to fuel their energy by connecting with themselves and cultivating the relationships around them.

Who am I? What does that dreaded phrase "Just be yourself" even mean? What does it mean to be "authentic"? These questions can feel overwhelming and impossible. But in Pocket Therapy, licensed psychotherapist Sarah Crosby will help you find the answers. Using accessible language and fun exercises, Sarah helps listeners tackle their “big” questions, one small step at a time.

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.

On any given night, there are over 643,000 homeless people residing in shelters and on the streets across America. What can we do to help? Listen for more.

Analyst and author Ann Belford Ulanov draws on her years of clinical work and reflection to make the point that madness and creativity share a kinship, an insight that shakes both analysis and analyst to the core, reminding us as it does that the suffering places of the human psyche are inextricably -- and, often inexplicably -- related to the fountains of creativity, service, and even genius. She poses disturbing questions: How do we depend on order, when chaos is a necessary part of existence?

Um guia esclarecedor sobre o que esperar da terapia, como encontrar o profissional adequado e as abordagens mais eficazes para tratar depressão, ansiedade, transtorno obsessivo-compulsivo e ataques de pânico. Trauma, tristeza, ansiedade e luto fazem parte da experiência humana, e a missão do psicoterapeuta Joshua Fletcher é mostrar a importância de encontrar um profissional de confiança com quem você possa discutir os aspectos mais difíceis da vida. Numa narrativa divertida e profundamente humana, Fletcher nos convida a entrar na mente de um terapeuta antes, durante e depois de cada sessão.

في هذا الكتاب الصغير يشرح مستشار العلاج النفسي احمد هارون عن أبرز المشكلات النفسية التي يُعاني منها معظم النّاس في الوقت الحالي؛

If you feel like fear and anxiety have some power over you, this will be the most important audiobook you listen to this year. Why not choose to live the next part of your life free of fear? People with confidence are no better than you. It certainly doesn’t require talent to be confident. We have all seen 14-year-olds with confidence, so it can’t be anything to do with wisdom or intelligence. Confident people think and act slightly different. The ideas they adopt are easily acquired, but very few do.

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.

This audiobook is scholarly, educational, and for reference purposes script. Its structure flows around its narrative techniques and reflective practice episodes, presenting several case studies as life stories and self-help strategies. All sections are, in fact, evidence-based research within the public services and private sector psychotherapeutic practice. The text had been praised, by several editors, as topical and potential intriguing and thought-provoking.

The book features a range of case studies while addressing core issues such as self-harm, hallucinations and the threat of suicide, as well as related topics such as depression and psychosis. Illustrating the psychological roots to eating disorders, it places therapy within hospital, clinical and multi-disciplinary contexts, as well as displaying how psychoanalytic theory can be applied across various settings and in different teams.

In this book are strategies for understanding and identifying abusive individuals. Being able to understand abusive behavior and identify its first stage, verbal abuse, is the key to freeing yourself from the grasp of an abusive person.

Эта книга — обширная энциклопедия, в которой каждый читатель (от студента до профессионала в области психологии) найдет ответы на интересующие его вопросы, а для начинающих психологов и психотерапевтов она станет отличным самоучителем.

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.

As a life raft for beginners and their supervisors, Where to Start and What to Ask provides all the necessary tools for garnering information from clients. Lukas also offers a framework for thinking about that information and formulating a thorough assessment. This indispensable audiobook helps therapeutic neophytes organize their approach to the initial phase of treatment and navigate even rough clinical waters with competence and assurance.

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.

Ucelené a přehledné shrnutí znalostí z více než padesáti let praxe světoznámého psychiatra Stanislava Grofa, jednoho ze zakladatelů transpersonální psychologie. Počínaje jeho výzkumy užívání LSD v psychoterapii, přes jeho klinickou práci s umírajícími, holotropní dýchání, až po kosmologický přesah výzkumu vědomí. Kniha potvrzuje Grofův neocenitelný přínos pro moderní psychiatrii a psychologii, zejména v jeho intenzivním a systematickém zkoumání zážitků ve změněných stavech vědomí a pojetí holotropního dýchání. Zároveň významně přispívá do debaty o místě člověka v kosmu.

As a self-conscious emotion, shame informs us of an internal state of inadequacy, unworthiness, dishonor, regret, or disconnection. Shame is a clear signal that our positive feelings have been interrupted. Through a depth psychological analysis of the author’s personal experience, which includes developing and living with a shame complex, the path toward healing shame is realized as the ability to find the courage to uncover and disclose a personal narrative in the presence of an empathetic analyst, who had the competence to contain and bear witness to his client’s story.