By Daryl Chow
The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.
Here’s the video version: https://youtu.be/wcU7ch-MFW0
This is a Q&A video and podcast series based on a question from a therapist in Glasgow, Scotland.
I hope this email finds you well.
I'm not sure whether this will get to you, but wanted to reach out as I have been feeling in a bit of a crisis with my practice as psychotherapist. And have been reading your book 'First Kiss'
To put it bluntly - there is too much choice! I am constantly distracted and preoccupied by the great myriad of trainings, books, models, etc. And find myself paralysed at times on what to actually do with people. I want to help and be the best I can.
I have been excited and intrigued by your writings, and the writing of Dr. Scott Miller as well, and I appreciate that there are factors more important than the therapeutic school/model, but it still leaves me anxious about what do I actually subscribe to in a session, as I can't just do anything/everything, I still need to present a coherent narrative to my clients, and link that to the work we do together. Even integrative or transdiagnostic models (like PBT or Multimodal Therapy) feel overwhelming.
And when I look at Deliberate Practice, it seems great, but doesn't answer my overall questions.
I wonder, should i just pick a good, well-fitting for me, model, and then work at practicing the best version of that i can? Or whether I am missing something entirely?
So I wanted to write in case there was anything you could point me in the direction of reading or doing that could help.
Warmest regards
Peter
Timestamp:
00:00 Intro00:07 Email from a therapist in Scotland03:14 Step 1: What is your belief about how healing takes place?04:31 Step 2: Identify 2-3 approaches that resonnates with you. 06:34 Step 3: Your History of Change07:34 Step 4: Your Clinical History with Clients08:51 Step 5: Develop Your Own Blueprint of How You Conduct Therapy Sessions10:43 Step 6: Capture Weekly Therapy Learnings (WTL)12:29 Step 7: Retrieval Practice13:50 Our Misunderstandings of What "Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)" is.15:24 Invitation to Pose Your Questions
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Daryl Chow Ph.D. is the author of The First Kiss, co-author of Better Results, and The Write to Recovery, Creating Impact, and the new book The Field Guide to Better Results .
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This is a Q&A video based on a question from a therapist in Montreal: "When Do You Get Time to Read?"
I just wanted to say once again that I really appreciate your newsletter. I look forward to reading it every week. This week, I especially liked the comment on the importance of giving more attention to the conversational nature of psychotherapy in our training. I also liked the quote at the end, "It takes two to know one", which made me appreciate the importance of supervision and co-development groups to understand our clients better.
I wanted to ask you a more personal question. When do you take time to read? I am asking this because there are so many interesting articles and books that are on my reading list but somehow I barely manage to make the time to read. I have a 2 year-old boy so that makes it a bit trickier too, but you and other therapists have children too.
Thank you for your work, it's inspiring.
Admittedly, if you look at the timestamp below, my response stretches a little further than the original question. Timestamp: 00:00 When Do You Get Time to Read? 01:13 The Daily Practical 02:06 Thinking is a monologue; reading is a dialogue 03:32 What Not to Do 05:01 Taking care of our intentions 05:57 Reading strategy 08:08 The 4 Tenets of becoming a Deep Learner 09:41 Developing a Personalised Learning System (PLS) 10:55 The Ignorant Section 11:45 What to Read 14:08 What Format to Read On 16:57 Periods of "No inputs from other minds" 17:33 Summary 18:28 Invitation to your questionsFor previous podcast episodes, click here.
Submission of Questions
Questions have the power to bring us together, as questions put us on a quest.I would love to hear from you if you would like your questions to be answered in detail. Drop a comment below or email me at [email protected]
Thanks for reading Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Warm Welcome to New Folks on Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD)
If you are new here, I just want to say a big hello to you and would love to hear from you. Tell me a bit about you and where you are from. Drop me an email [email protected]
Click here to see more resources about Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development and Frontiers Friday.
Daryl Chow Ph.D. is the author of The First Kiss, co-author of Better Results, and The Write to Recovery, Creating Impact, and the new book The Field Guide to Better Results .
n this week's tip, I'd talk about how we can specifically listen for changes between sessions, and why measuring a person's wellbeing matters more than a symptom-specific measure.
If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance and being outcome informed, here are links:
Time Stamps:
00:00: Introduction
00:47: Listening for Differences Between Sessions
01:02: Limits of Symptom-Specific Measures
02:53: Paying Attention to Changes Outside of Therapy
Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.
Related Links:
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📜 Becoming a Deep Learner:
If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ -
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🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked handpicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: 🎯 https://darylchow.substack.com
Here's a sample of past FF newsletters:
1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i-
2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i-
3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v-
In this week's Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool.
If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links:
1. Seek to be Dis-confirmed
2. The Devil is the Details Between Sessions
3. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback
⏳ Time Stamps:
00:00: Introduction
00:40: Not Just an Assessment Tool
01:08: Why Measure at Each Session
02:44: A Clinical Example of Conflicting Ratings
➡ Sidenote:
There are backfire effects if we use measures purely as an assessment tool. See this: The Tyranny of Metrics.
Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.
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📜 Becoming a Deep Learner:
If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ -
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🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked handpicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: 🎯 https://darylchow.substack.com
Here's a sample of past FF newsletters:
1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i-
2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i-
3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v-
In Therapy Tip of the Week #6, we continue on the topic of improving working alliance. Here's my recommendation, when seeking for feedback, avoid talking about... you!
If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links:
⏳ Time Stamps:
00:00: Introduction
01:00: Using Depersonalised language
01:42: What Feedback is Not
02:02: Feedback to Feed-Forward
04:14: Summary
Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.
📕 Related Link:
"Every impactful person brings to you themselves and not needing to proof ‘how impactful I am’, ‘how smart I am’, and ‘how needed I am.’" ~ Sr Joan Chittister.
If the therapy room is a vessel, it needs a scaffold in order for you to create a healing environment so as to help the person who is in distress.
But how do you structure a therapeutic session so that it is impactful for your client and not get caught up with trying to be “impactful…smart…needed”?
I want to help you solve this particular issue: How to develop a sense of structure in how you conduct therapy sessions.
Shownotes:
1. To read this article, go to https://darylchow.substack.com
2. Charles Eisenstein (see his Substack newsletter and his books, Sacred Economics and The More Beautiful World That Our Hearts Know).
3. Cultures of Healing by Robert Fancher
4. To Sign up to Structure and Impact, click here.
Dissonance can be a powerful ingredient for learning. How do we challenge our intuition in order to listen to our client's unspokens in order to foster a deeper connection with them?
In this video, I recommend an exercise that I use called the "Rate and Predict," to help me open up the conversation in therapy.
⏳ Time Stamps:
00:00 Introduction
00:25: What is the Rate and Predict Exercise?
01:25: Seeking to be Disconfirmed
02:30: A Clinical Example
Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.
📕 Related Link:
1. https://darylchow.com/frontiers/the-tension-of-opposites-clinical-intuition-vs-clinical-data-part-2-of-2/
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📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/
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🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: https://darylchow.substack.com Here's a sample of past FF newsletters:
1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i-
2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i-
3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v-
As psychotherapists, it's easy to get lost in our heads. Our pet theories end up dominating and preventing us from being in touch with the person in front of us.
In this Therapy Tip of the Week, I'd talk about how psychotherapists can employ principles of embodied cognition—the idea of embodiment as a way of thinking—to help you deepen your empathic understanding of your clients, especially in stuck situations.
⏳ Time Stamps:
1. Intro (00:00)
2. What is embodied cognition? A clinical example (00:42)
3. Personal story (04:59)
4. Related resources on embodied cognition (06:31)
Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.
📕 Resources:
1. Focusing by Eugene Gendlin: focusing.org
2. The Extended Mind by Annie Murphy Paul
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📜 Becoming a Deep Learner:
If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/
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🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday?
Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: https://darylchow.substack.com
Here's a sample of past FF newsletters:
1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/101frontiersfriday
2. On Emotions: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/95frontiersfriday
3. On Deliberate Practice: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/51frontiersfriday
Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature. In this video, I provide a way to open a conversational doorway about this with your client, so as to provide focus and directionality of the therapeutic endeavour.
⏳ Time Stamps:
1. Intro (00:00)
2. What to ask your clients (00:59)
3. The Season Points to the Needs (02:07)
4. A Clinical Example (02:32)
Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy.
📕 Resources:
1. The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
2. Wintering by Catherine May
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📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course.
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--- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: https://darylchow.substack.com
Here's a sample of past FF newsletters:
1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/101frontiersfriday
2. On Emotions: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/95frontiersfriday
3. On Deliberate Practice: https://mailchi.mp/darylchow/51frontiersfriday
The podcast currently has 23 episodes available.