Giving a depressed person a compliment is playing with fire. These techniques will let you slip your uplifting delivery in the side door.
You’re walking along a busy road. There’s a sweet old lady who needs help to cross the road. Only you’re on the other side from her… Do you a) shout and wave her [...]

People aren’t usually willing to abandon their ideas or habits just because you say so. Learn how you can easily help people become more open to therapeutic suggestions for change.
When I first started out as a therapist I would sometimes run into ‘difficult’ clients – people who just didn’t give the ‘right’ answers to my [...]