Priscilla Short is a chartered psychologist working in private practice. Her approach to psychotherapy is based on an understanding that all our experiences affect how our brain has become wired to respond and react in different situations. The brain is a wonderful resource for us but it can sometimes (oftentimes) get in the way of us living our fullest life - it can make us fearful and anxious when we don't need to be, it can cause a darkness to come over us that makes the future feel hopeless when there is actually hope, it can lead us to over-react to situations based on our past experiences rather than present information, to self-medicate with substances and behaviours that cause us harm in the long term, or to keep engaging in painful and unrewarding relationship patterns. Developing a deeper and more compassionate understanding of who we are and what we do is often the first step in the therapeutic process.
Being Human and Doing Psychotherapy is a podcast that portraits the human in psychotherapists and the psychotherapist present in all of us. Whatever profession we pursue, we first enter it with humanity and the fullness of the whole being. Through this podcast, I curiously explore what the “secret ingredients” of various psychotherapeutic directions are and how they integrate through the specific life and human stories of the therapists who practice and live them.

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