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Joining a client in their image world is a powerful act with the potential to both honour and transform their subjective reality. In the third part of her series about harnessing the power of clients’ imaginations, psychotherapist, author and transformational imagery pioneer Dr. Dina Glouberman discusses her approach to group work, and recalls an experience with one cohort member who felt drawn to death by her late boyfriend’s spirit.

We all know how detrimental stress can be for our mental and physical health. But how can we use our clients’ somatic activation to help them heal? As National Stress Awareness Month draws to a close, Tracy Jarvis, Director of PESI UK and a psychotherapist specialising in trauma and neuroscience, introduces two categories of stressor, the roles of the HPA and SAM axes and some key pointers from Sensorimotor Psychotherapy – and shares her work with one man whose body held the memory of a bullying older brother.

When clients are overwhelmed by fear for the future, working with imagery can help us to change one crucial – and perhaps surprising – part of the picture. In the second instalment of her series about harnessing the power of clients’ imaginations, psychotherapist, author and transformational imagery pioneer Dr. Dina Glouberman shares an exercise for transforming intense fears by reimagining the future self.

Working with imagery in therapy can provide us with a powerful and practical way to promote insight, healing and change. In the first part of a new series about harnessing the power of clients' imaginations, psychotherapist, author and transformational imagery pioneer Dr. Dina Glouberman introduces a visioning the future exercise – and explains why picturing the worst might actually be a good place to start.

Cooking, as a therapeutic intervention, encourages us to respond with creative instinct and purposive focus, left and right brain working together. Ahead of World Autism Awareness Day on April 2, attachment-informed psychotherapist Charlotte Hastings explains how her Kitchen Therapy practice was inspired by her work with neurodivergent young people and informed by Winnicott’s concept of ‘indwelling’.