What to do if Patient is Actively Suicidal | Suicide Prevention
What do you do if you’re a therapist and your patient is high risk for suicide? After you’ve done the assessment, and they’re high risk. The next step is you’re going to want to de-escalate them. Get them to be cooperative, if they’re having some…
SYMPHONY OF SELVES BOOK REVIEW
This is a book review for your symphony of selves: discover and understand more of who we are. I love this parts perspective. I’m a therapist that works from this part’s perspective so I’m looking at this book from that angle. This book not only…
EMOTIONALLY FOCUSED THERAPY
What is emotionally focused therapy? If you’re in a relationship you should probably know about this type of therapy. If you want to better your communication skills, you should probably know about this therapy. You want to better your connection with someone then yep, you…
HOW TO PREVENT SUICIDE
Suicide prevention and coping techniques are vitally important. In the United States suicide is the second leading cause of death of individuals between ages 10 and 34, and it is the fourth leading cause of death of individuals from 35 to 44. Half of these…
FOURS STEPS TO GETTING WHAT YOU WANT
FOURS STEPS TO GETTING WHAT YOU WANT Have you had a situation where there is a difficult conversation that is to take place with someone, and you’re really passionate about the topic but you don’t want to come off overbearing? Unsure how to have a…
TIPS FOR BETTER COMMUNICATION
There are a lot of communication skills out there and putting them in order is important. Here are four things that you can do to help improve your communication. These are particularly helpful if someone else is emotional and you’re wanting to help them feel…
Coping with emotions
If you could feel more or less of any emotion at any given moment, what would that mean to you? With this technique that may be possible. Whether you want to feel less of something or more of something else, this technique is from parts…