santacruzsarah.blogspot.com

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: June 2012

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012_06_01_archive.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Saturday, June 30, 2012. Make changes more easily by harnessing the chain of behavior. Most of us have been there - you make a few resolutions at the new year, and they fall by the wayside. A couple of months later, you try again, recalling those failed resolutions and deciding to just go it on your own, regardless of what the calendar says. See how it works? This also works with things you are trying to add to your life, not just trying to quit. There's a ch...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: Make changes more easily by harnessing the chain of behavior

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/make-changes-more-easily-by-harnessing.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Saturday, June 30, 2012. Make changes more easily by harnessing the chain of behavior. Most of us have been there - you make a few resolutions at the new year, and they fall by the wayside. A couple of months later, you try again, recalling those failed resolutions and deciding to just go it on your own, regardless of what the calendar says. See how it works? This also works with things you are trying to add to your life, not just trying to quit. There's a ch...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: Ask the Doc: When a therapist breaks your trust

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012/06/ask-doc-when-therapist-breaks-your.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Sunday, June 24, 2012. Ask the Doc: When a therapist breaks your trust. Q Someone dear to me was a client of a counselor/therapist who radically broke her trust, and she's never been able to trust any counselor/therapist since. How do you learn to trust a therapist/counselor after your trust has been betrayed by one? Another choice to be made is when (and whether) to reengage in therapy. If therapy begins again, the choices are about how much to disclose, and...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: Tips for new therapists

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/tips-for-new-therapists.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Sunday, July 29, 2012. Tips for new therapists. I was visiting an internet forum this morning (what are we supposed to call those now? I work with early-career therapists, and I've found over the years that a lot of advice I give them is pretty simple stuff - the same things I try to remember when I work with clients. Here are some of the things I keep repeating:. Clients learn when you don't think they are learning. They feel when you don't think they're fee...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: July 2012

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012_07_01_archive.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Sunday, July 29, 2012. Tips for new therapists. I was visiting an internet forum this morning (what are we supposed to call those now? I work with early-career therapists, and I've found over the years that a lot of advice I give them is pretty simple stuff - the same things I try to remember when I work with clients. Here are some of the things I keep repeating:. Clients learn when you don't think they are learning. They feel when you don't think they're fee...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: What's my therapist thinking?

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/whats-my-therapist-thinking.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Saturday, March 10, 2012. What's my therapist thinking? Like every blogger everywhere, I check my "stats" once in a while, curious to see what brought people to this particular corner of the interwebs. Often, some variation on "what is my therapist thinking? Or "does my therapist like me? Pops up. And it makes all the sense in the world. While I can't purport to know what every therapist is thinking in session (yikes! Post somewhere down the road. MAYBE. Cultural...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: March 2012

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012_03_01_archive.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Saturday, March 31, 2012. One tiny gesture can change your day. Some days all it takes is the knowledge, deep in your bones, that a few simple movements can change everything. Links to this post. Friday, March 30, 2012. Hey, Doc Blog fans - I've launched my Kickstarter project! Please share this information with your friends, and let's get this funded. Now that I've got the project launched, I can turn my attention back to getting some new posts up. Or "does my t...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: Quick practice: non-judgmental listening

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/quick-practice-non-judgmental-listening.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Thursday, July 12, 2012. Quick practice: non-judgmental listening. Here's one of those little mindful things you can do no matter where you are. Thing that we've been conditioned to do to survive. I want to really open up to what my client is saying - sometimes feeling heard is just what they need to move forward. The opportunity might not come up immediately, especially if you're at work. "Yo, Bob, I'm going to go to the bathroom" is NOT your opportunity to ...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: Three quick ways to lift your mood RIGHT NOW.

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/three-quick-ways-to-lift-your-mood.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Sunday, July 15, 2012. Three quick ways to lift your mood RIGHT NOW. Change, as you know, can take time. It takes practice to un-learn things, to relearn things, to work at finding the path and staying on it until the changes come. The journey can be a long one. The trick here is to not expect anything in return. Call with the simple goal of listening, and caring. Truly listen. Truly care. The rest will follow. Unexpected help lifts the mood on both sides of the ...

drjeffblog.blogspot.com

Doc Blog: 7 things to do during your first therapy appointment

http://drjeffblog.blogspot.com/2011/08/7-things-to-do-during-your-first.html

Psychology from an insider's perspective. Sunday, August 28, 2011. 7 things to do during your first therapy appointment. 1 Spend a little time preparing. Sit down with some paper and a pen (whoa! 2 Realize that your therapist has some basics that need to be covered. 3 Get a feel for the relationship. 4 Go ahead and trot out that "one thing.". Yeah, easy for me to say! 5, Set some goals, but realize that things change. 6 Make sure your therapist checks in. 7 End with some adjustments. October 31, 2011 at ...