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If you want to be a Supershrink it’s going to hurt. A lot.
Welcome once again readers. We have a very special guest post in store this time around. My friends from the USA, Jordan Harris, will be sharing his wisdom on what it takes to become a super-shrink. If you haven’t heard me mention Jordan before in my previous posts, then I highly recommend checking out his…
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DP TIP #2: Tailor your goal-setting approach to suit each individual client
Goal alignment is the health bar of therapy. Winnie-the-Pooh *shifty eyes* Before I start, here is what I have written so far of my top 10 tips for Deliberate Practice in therapy: I’m going to start with a potentially controversial belief. I’ve come to believe that goal alignment is more important than therapeutic connection with…
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DP Tip #1 – Get Feedback From Your Clients
Hello everyone. I’m back again and ready to get my posts started for 2023. To begin the year, my posts will focus on my top 10 tips for engaging in Deliberate Practice (DP) as a therapist. The tips won’t be a prescription of DP; you will still need to do the work to individualise DP…
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Exploration Before Explanation
Well, here we are everyone. Another year done. And for me another year of Deliberate Practice in the books. I started to write a post about 3 weeks ago on how I have delved into an idea called ‘client chosen ideographic outcome measures’, but I’ve put that on pause. I want to wind down for…
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Improving Therapy Outcomes: A Case for Deliberate Practice
In my previous post, I wrote about my history with imposter syndrome as a therapist—convinced that I wasn’t really a good therapist until I was confident. To resolve this self-doubt, I turned to expanding my knowledge in different ways of doing therapy. I did things almost all therapists do to learn more. I met with…
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The Answers Are in Our Weak Spots
Throughout my entire career as a therapist, I have battled with imposter syndrome. The idea that I am not good at what I do, that I am simply “acting” as a therapist. A fear that eventually I would get called out for my inadequacy and told that this therapist gig isn’t for me. Because of…
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Finding the Scientist within the Psychologist
Sometimes we can forget that we are not just Psychologists – we are also scientists. I have seen psychologists hold off from trying their own new ideas in therapy, because their idea is not part of the established tried and true – which is a hallmark of that natural human desire to stay in safety.…
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Don’t be afraid to give client’s the steering wheel
In this post I’m going to talk about some reflections I’ve had on giving client’s more control of their therapy. I’ll also share 3 scenarios on how I have changed my therapy approach to better align with my client’s needs and wants. Lately I’ve been compelled by a realisation that giving clients control of their…
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Put me in the game, Coach!
This post is going to be all about my reflections and ideas about how to get a DP system going without a coach. Yes I decided to switch it up, I’ll still write about the history of DP in therapy eventually, but it wasn’t tickling my passion bone for now. Before I start however, I…
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What is the deal with Deliberate Practice anyway? ft one of my outcome stats
Before I begin I want to give a shout out to Jordan Harris, who is a counsellor in the United states. He’s big on Deliberate Practice (DP), so of course I already think he’s a cool cat. He’s a really nice guy, generous with his time and a clever duck who is clearly passionate about…
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Taking control of the spotlight
I’m at the begin of a new transition. I’ve decided that my Deliberate Practice coaching session with Nathan Castle today will be my last, at least for the time being. I concluded that I want to spend more time to master unhooking from my ‘fix it mode’, as was the focus in my previous post.…
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Turning the corner
I have taken some time to reflect on my journey in tackling hesitation when it appears in my therapy room. I first thought back to how it all started – the lightbulb moment where I realised I respond to client’s feeling stuck by going into this over-reassuring fix it mode. I then reflected on my…
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Getting hooked
Pooh: What is love?Piglet: You don’t spell it. You feel it. Winnie-the-pooh Hello everyone – how are you? I am well. I’m here for another instalment of where I’m at in my deliberate practice (DP) journey. I’ve had a fairly encouraging sense of progress in my efforts to create more emotional engagement with clients. If…
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Tennis balls aren’t just for Labradors
We did it! My wife and I finally managed to get married on the 25th of March. Third time lucky! It was an amazing day and finally I get to be marred to the woman I love. I’m sure some of you are thinking of getting us a wedding gift, my wife and I like…
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Willingness
You can’t stay in your corner of the Forest waiting for others to come to you. You have to go to them sometimes. Winnie-the-pooh I want to start by sharing with you an “aha!” moment I had about a week ago. I’ve been doing Scott Miller and Daryl Chow’s online workshop in Deliberate Practice (DP). I…
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