The Foundations of All Professions In addition to my clinical, teaching and supervisionary work I am also very much involved in the development and maintenance of professional standards. When a profession is not statutorily controlled it is essential that the … Continue reading →
Make Resiliency The Word of Everyday There are several things that people say are necessary for a healthy mental life. When I have been asked what is absolutely necessary for good mental health I always say it’s resilance, resilience and … Continue reading →
Banish Negative People So often I get people coming to me who are really suffering with reactive depression. Reactive depression is a depression which usually has an external cause. For example, one might experience this at the break up of … Continue reading →
The Importance of Humour in Mental Health Unless you are able to keep your head in the sand, have no television or internet access, you cannot have missed the presidential election campaign in the US. Though it is a a … Continue reading →
Feeling Stuck I have been doing therapy now since 1989, and one of the most frustrating thing for both me and my clients is when the occasions come up where it feels like the process is stuck. There is a … Continue reading →
Is Racism Ingrained In Our Psyche I think it is a responsibility of psychotherapists to be active in the sociological debates of the day. As an American born, British citizen, as well as being a psychotherapist, I am troubled by … Continue reading →
Be In The Now For those of you who are interested there are only 67 days until Christmas. Frustrating isn’t it, with advertising coming earlier and earlier we begin to think about what we are going to do for Christmas … Continue reading →
The Power of Music One of the things that gets asked of me in the training courses I run is why do I use music with my hypnotic sessions. Generally speaking I use it because it aids in the induction … Continue reading →
When is Research Not Research In the fields of hypnotherapy and psychotherapy there is a greater and greater demand that the work undertaken with clients is “evidenced based”. Now there are many ways to define evidence based, if for example, … Continue reading →
A New Group and a New City Sort Of In addition to my clinical and supervisionary practice, I have, since 1993, trained people to become hypnotherapists and from 1996 psychotherapists as well. I have always enjoyed both this responsibility and … Continue reading →
