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The way in which the CBT model is presented to clients is integral to positive outcomes. Ahead of an intensive two-day Psychotherapy Excellence training in November, John Ludgate, Ph.D., Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, sets out the essentials for introducing your clients to CBT.

What therapeutic challenges and opportunities arise when a client with dementia enters nursing or palliative care? In the concluding part of her blog series coinciding with Alzheimer’s Month, psychotherapist and author Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones discusses working through this latter stage in the trajectory of dementia.

What do people who engage in emotional eating really crave? To mark the publication of his new book on the subject, clinical psychologist Howard S. Farkas, PhD, discusses the role of intuition, judgment and unconscious motivations in eating, and reveals how reframing the notion of ‘self-control’ can liberate clients to eat what they (actually) want.

How does grief counselling differ when the client has dementia? In the fourth part of her blog series coinciding with Alzheimer’s Month, psychotherapist and author Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones explores the experience of bereavement through the lens of dementia, including working with hallucinations, metaphor and felt-absence.

Meriel Whale specialises in counselling clients who are childless not by choice, an area of growing relevance for therapists. To mark the start of World Childless Week, she shares key insights drawn from personal experience, from the prevalence of painful triggers to the possibility for profound personal growth

Powerful projections, loss of recognition, longstanding relationship dynamics: caring for a family member with dementia is a complex emotional task. In the third part of her blog series coinciding with Alzheimer’s Month, psychotherapist and author Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones looks at how psychotherapy can help carers understand their own feelings, and the communications of the person with dementia

What happens when the therapist becomes an invited guest? Jude Boyles is the Manager and a therapist of a Refugee Council therapy service based in South Yorkshire, offering therapy to Syrian refugees resettled via the Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme (VPRS). In her second occasional blog about this work, she reflects on the challenges of creating a therapy space within the client’s home

Helping clients to live with dementia often involves steering a path between despair, denial and early relationship dynamics. In the second part of her blog series coinciding with Alzheimer’s Month, psychotherapist and author Dr Esther Ramsay-Jones considers how therapeutic input can support people with dementia, and their partners, to sit with uncertainty.

Rehab is on the rise for substance misuse. Yet it remains a largely hidden phenomenon, often obfuscated by slick marketing, and both therapists and the families of clients may feel cut off from the treatment. Dr. Joe Nowinski, PhD, clinical psychologist and addiction specialist, explains how we can support our clients to make a truly informed choice if they decide to enter rehab

Improv games can offer wonderful insights into the unconscious, including observing the way in which we ‘block’ or ‘accept’ our partner’s suggestions. So why should theatre practitioners have all the fun? Supervision trainer Robin Shohet gets playful as he shares his growing interest in improv as a therapeutic tool.