In case you missed it last month, Mark Tyrrell’s teleseminar ‘5 things you must do when treating depression (and 3 things to avoid)’ is running again on September 2nd. The last seminar booked out quickly, and got some great feedback on the Uncommon Knowledge Facebook Page so if you treat depressed people, best sign up now!
Hypnosis Master Series: Limitations – all in the mind?
It used to be widely thought that it was not humanly possible to run a mile in under four minutes. Many talented athletes had tried, had come amazingly close, but ultimately failed to break that magic four minute marker. The human body, it was thought, just couldn’t do it.
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3 ways to prepare your clients for hypnosi
You’ve been talking ‘normally’ with your client about how to address their issue, building rapport, setting goals, and now you’re ready to ‘do the hypnosis’. Your client shifts awkwardly in their seat. Faint lines of strain appear on their brow as they politely close their eyes, as instructed, while you whisper theatrically into their straining ear… Mmm… something doesn’t feel quite right, does it?
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3 depression-busting metaphors for depressed clients
‘Depression’ can be a scary diagnosis, conjuring up as it does connotations of ‘disease’ and ‘genetic chemical imbalances’ and other frightening notions. But in fact, although depression is a state of mind which significantly affects energy levels in the body, there’s no real evidence that it has a biological cause beyond psychological learning or temporary response to one or more of life’s setbacks.
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3 ways to signal the end of therapy
These days, knowing how to terminate therapy elegantly is a core therapeutic skill. Gone are the days when psychotherapy was supposed to continue maybe twice a week for decades. In fact, the international guidelines for the treatment of depression suggest that if your depressed client doesn’t feel significantly better after five sessions you should refer them on to another professional (1).
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Hypnosis Master Series: Problem solving with paradoxical intervention
Getting people to consciously ‘do more’ of their problem behavior helps them by taking away the pressure to stop doing it. It also incites curiosity, turning an unconscious pattern into a consciously intentional pattern.
Even if this doesn’t create a context in which they can immediately abandon the pattern, it can start to loosen the rigidity of it. And if we can make a problem pattern both conscious and burdensome then it becomes much easier for the individual to discard it completely.
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3 tips to get your clients to value your suggestions
Why is it important for therapists to give careful consideration to increasing influence with their clients?
Sometimes what a client needs is pretty obvious. Anyone can see it. And as you’re not shackled by the old idea that ‘therapy must never be directive’, you come straight out with your wonderful suggestion, re-frame or clearly ’spot on’ (to you) piece of sage advice.
And what happens?
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Hypnosis Master Series: How to build instant rapport by going beyond matching, mirroring and leading
Here’s a true story. Years ago, when I was a fledgling hypnotherapist, I had a call from a man who had been severely injured in a rugby accident sustained while he was in the military, and who had been left disabled. He wanted help with pain management so he could take an Open University degree. Because of his disability, he could no longer stay with his elite commando unit. I went to see him at home.
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Learn how to sidestep the unconscious sabotage of negative language
A man accidentally falls off the platform and gets stuck in the rails of the London underground. A train is fast approaching. Another man crouches down and calls: “Give me your hand!” To his astonishment, the man refuses.
His would-be saviour shouts more desperately: “Give me your hand!” But again the man declines. The train is now practically bearing down on him, a great wave of roaring steel. Suddenly, a third man shouts: “Take my hand!” The stuck man takes the proffered hand and is hauled to safety in the nick of time. The second man is amazed and asks the rescuer: “How come he took your hand but not mine?”
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Learn how to build a roadmap to get your clients out of depression – and never go back there again
I was once lost in Istanbul. A kindly man came over, smiled at me and asked: “Can I help me?” Okay, so English wasn’t his first language and he meant ‘you’ not ‘me’, but it got me thinking. How do we know where we are going, how soon we’ll arrive, when we’ve arrived? And what’s this got to do with top quality psychotherapy thinking.?
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