TL;DR
1. Submit your question to me (anything about Deliberate Practice).
2. I’ll respond with an answer.
3. I’ll post the conversation here – as a blog post!
4. You will find existing posts below.

– The general gist of Ask Jimmy

It’s so easy to get stuck with Deliberate Practice. It’s an issue that happens so often, it risks keeping doing Deliberate Practice as a therapist a niche idea. It’s hard to start Deliberate Practice, even with all the great help and resources out there. It’s even harder to maintain.

That’s why I’m always looking for different ways to help other therapists not only get stuck into it, but keep at it.

Basically, one of my intentions and aims is to become the human equivalent of chatGPT in helping therapists find ways to engage in Deliberate Practice that addresses their foundational skills.

Not everyone will have the capacity to find a coach too or even to talk with me, as in a free quick talk. For instance, many therapists who reach out to me are on the other side of the world. I have no idea why they put Europe so far away.

I want to be able to help those people. Thanks to my father-in-law jokingly asking if I have an ‘Ask Jimmy’ phone line for my clients and to a fellow therapist emailing me for advice – I decided to start another blog series!

How it works

1. Submit your question!

Send me your questions about Deliberate Practice – literally anything to do with engaging in Deliberate Practice as a therapist.

Whether it’s something you want to improve on, but you’re stuck. That might also be a particular concept of Deliberate Practice or there’s something about Deliberate Practice you want to understand better.

Submissions can be via email, voice recording or video – whatever you feel is most comfortable for you.

• 2. I’ll respond with an answer

I’ll respond in the same medium which you submit your question, e.g. if you send a voice recording, I will respond that way. Unless you prefer I respond via email, in writing.

If I don’t know how to answer, I’ll do my best to suggest where you might find one.

If you’re question is too complex for this quick exchange format, then I’ll suggest contacting you another way (e.g. a phone call) or will help you locate someone else who may be able to help in a more thorough way.

Please note: Please do not send any questions that need an urgent answer. As this will be free, I’ll be attending to questions as I have the time. I will likely respond anywhere between 48 hours to a month, depending on how busy I am. I’ll do my best to give you an estimate response time, if I think it will be longer than 48 hours.

• 3. I’ll post our exchange here – as a blog post

The intention of posting the exchanges publicly will be too hopefully help and inspire other therapists in their own Deliberate Practice efforts. It may even give others the permission and courage to submit their own questions.

All posts will be anonymous, unless you elect to be identified.

The Rules

1. Make sure your submission leads to a question for me to answer
2. For written submissions – ensure the length is no more than one A4 page at most.
3. For audio/video submissions – ensure these are no longer than 2 minutes long.
4. Let me know if you want to be anonymous or if there’ s parts of your submission you don’t want published.

The submission form

The Submissions