So you’re feeling, low, anxious, scared, obsessive, self-critical, you’ve got low self esteem or maybe your relationship needs a fix. You’d like some help. You need a therapist. But where to start looking? What do you look for? What qualifications should they have? How do I know they’re any good? Here’s a step by step […]
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“It was like being buried alive”: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome
This article I found in The Guardian provides a real insight into what it can be like to experience chronic fatigue syndrome or ME. It looks at a new way of looking at the disorders,  because we are finding,  more and more, that the brain and the body do not work separately, they are interlinked and […]
Editable CBT worksheets
When I’m working with CBT based principles, I use a lot of CBT worksheets, and I like to give clients a choice of the format they can use. A lot of the time they like to have ready-printed sheets, but sometimes, they’re a bit more high-tech and prefer to edit them online using their smart […]
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Medication Management and Mental Health – a problem based learning case study
Often, when we are presented with a case it can be difficult to find a way forward. To aid clinical decisions, it is sometimes necessary to break down the decision making process into stages. The problem based learning task below does just that. Here I was given a case study and we methodically worked through […]
Graded Exposure – self reflection on a CBT intervention
When learning to carry out therapeutic interventions or treatments, it’s important to understand the mechanisms of the task in detail, and what better way to get to the bottom of that than by using the technique on yourself? Here I practiced a standard CBT intervention for anxiety, Graded Exposure, and reflected so that in the […]
Older Adults and Mental Health – a problem based learning case study
Often, when we are presented with a case it can be difficult to find a way forward. To aid clinical decisions, it is sometimes necessary to break down the decision making process into stages. The problem based learning task below does just that. Here I was given a case study and we methodically worked through […]
Behavioural Activation – self reflection on a CBT intervention
When learning to carry out therapeutic interventions or treatments, it’s important to understand the mechanisms of the task in detail, and what better way to get to the bottom of that than by using the technique on yourself? Here I practiced a standard CBT intervention for depression, Behavioural Activation, and reflected so that in the […]
Cognitive Restructuring – self reflection on a CBT intervention
When learning to carry out therapeutic interventions or treatments, it’s important to understand the mechanisms of the task in detail, and what better way to get to the bottom of that than by using the technique on yourself? Here I practiced a standard CBT intervention for depression, Cognitive Restructuring, and reflected so that in the […]