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Pillars of Strength 8/8: Focusing

  • 28th Jun 2019
  • Julia Samuel

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel MBE has spent 25 years working with bereaved families. Over the last eight weeks, the author of Grief Works has been sharing her concept of the ‘pillars of strength’, which we can use to help clients grieve and rebuild their lives. In her final blog of the series, Samuel introduces the eighth pillar – focusing.

GSRD Clients – Do We Need Specialist Training?

  • 26th Jun 2019
  • Dominic Davies

Dominic Davies founded Pink Therapy in 1999. Twenty years on, and on the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, he addresses the question of whether specialist training is still needed to work with gender, sexual and relationship diversity. Whether you are a GSRD-identified therapist, or a cisgender and heterosexual therapist, what might be the essentials for working with GSRD clients?

Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy

  • 24th Jun 2019
  • Helen Payne

Attending to the body in psychotherapy is important whatever your therapeutic modality. Professor Helen Payne is the leading editor of the new Routledge International Handbook of Embodied Perspectives in Psychotherapy. Here she explains the meaning of embodiment, the difference between body psychotherapy and dance movement psychotherapy, and how we can all develop a deeper connection with our bodies.

Pillars of Strength 7/8: Structure

  • 21st Jun 2019
  • Julia Samuel

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel MBE has spent 25 years working with bereaved families. In this weekly blog series, the author of Grief Works is sharing her concept of the ‘pillars of strength’, which we can use to help clients grieve and rebuild their lives. Today, Samuel introduces the seventh pillar – structure.

Would You Recognise a Kundalini Awakening?

  • 17th Jun 2019
  • Duncan Barford

Kundalini awakening is an intense psychophysical experience that is rarely recognised, and often mistaken for psychosis. Duncan Barford, a psychodynamic counsellor with a special interest in spiritual crises, identifies its features, and explains how psychotherapeutic intervention might help.

Pillars of Strength 6/8: Limits

  • 14th Jun 2019
  • Julia Samuel

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel MBE has spent 25 years working with bereaved families. In this weekly blog series, the author of Grief Works is sharing her concept of the ‘pillars of strength’, which we can use to help clients grieve and rebuild their lives. Today, Samuel introduces the sixth pillar – recognising and asserting our limits.

Embracing Direct Messaging

  • 12th Jun 2019
  • Fiona Pienaar

As of May, anyone in a crisis can text ‘Shout’ to 85258 and get immediate support, at any time of the day or night. How might this free direct messaging service be of use to our therapy clients, and what benefits can non face-to-face support bring to the field of mental health? Shout’s Chief Clinical Office Dr Fiona Pienaar gives us the lowdown on the UK’s first crisis text line service.

Making Sense of Madness

  • 10th Jun 2019
  • John Read

What causes psychosis, and what can help? Psychotherapy, with its interest in life history and circumstance, and its emphasis on the transformative power of the therapeutic relationship, has more to offer in this area than we are often trained to think. Ahead of an upcoming conference on the origins and meaning of psychosis, Dr John Read, Professor of Clinical Psychology, explains why the psycho-social model must be hauled back into view

Pillars of Strength 5/8: Mindbody

  • 7th Jun 2019
  • Julia Samuel

Psychotherapist Julia Samuel MBE has spent 25 years working with bereaved families. In this weekly blog series, the author of Grief Works is sharing her concept of the ‘pillars of strength’, which we can use to help clients grieve and rebuild their lives. Today, Samuel introduces the fifth pillar – the mindbody – and offers tips on how to regulate this while grieving.

How Dance Movement Psychotherapy Helps Young People

  • 3rd Jun 2019
  • Kimberley Pena

How can we best support young people in today’s demanding world? Through rebuilding their relationship with their moving and feeling body, argues Kimberley Pena. A dance movement psychotherapist, she explains how neuromuscular pathways are shared by gestures and emotions, making the moving body vital in improving children’s mental health.