DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EXTINCTION AND MEMORY RECONSOLIDATION
What is the difference between extinction and memory reconsolidation? Unfortunately, people don’t know enough about memory reconsolidation, and they loop it in and think it’s the same as extinction and it’s not. It’s different, if you’re a therapist you’re going to want to know these…
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…
ASSESSING SUICIDALITY
This is for therapists to learn how to talk about suicide with your patients, primarily the assessment. There are different types of assessments that one can use for suicide risk. The best scale for suicide ideation that is very well researched is Columbia suicide severity…
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…
WHAT BLOCKS EMOTIONAL PROCESSING/ HEALING?
Are there memories that have a lot of emotional weight? Have you ever wondered why does this event that happened so long ago still carry so much emotional weight? What would it do for you if you knew why some things are so hard to…
WHAT IS MINDFULNESS
What is mindfulness? Meditation? Mindful eating? Why do therapists care so much about this, and why are they obsessed with it? Why is there so much research on it? Mindfulness is simply the act of being aware. When you’re present, you’re observing, not thinking about…
WHAT IS PARTS AND MEMORY THERAPY?
What is parts and memory therapy? Parts and memory therapy holds the assumption that some of our emotional responses to things are learned. If we can go back to these moments and take the emotions out of the memory our present emotional response isn’t as…
ARE THERAPISTS A BUNCH OF QUACKS?
Are therapists a bunch of quacks? Like dude just get over it you don’t have to feel feelings. The problem is if you take that emotion whatever you’re feeling you just suppress it, it can build up and then you just get mad over dumb…
Emotional processing
HOW TO FEEL BETTER EMOTIONALLY Some basics of emotional processing involve letting yourself feel to heal. Give yourself permission to feel those feelings, to exert them. If someone is talking to you and you ignore them, they get louder. Your emotions react in the same…