CRAFT Intervention Interview This podcast is Mr Robert J. Meyers PHd talking about CRAFT – Community Reinforcement and Family Training. In other words, you have a family member who refuses to talk about or go to treatment and you learn how to use CRAFT to help change this.
Higher Perspective
Higher Perspective How do you do what matters, no matter what? How do you move out from being stuck, rigid, inflexible? We all hit points in our lives when this becomes an experience. One way to start to move again is to take a higher perspective, to notice with compassion what is in play. I […]
Client Feedback – Nice
Btw my friend who you recommended RedChair therapy to gave me some feedback and said he has been brilliant and life changing A therapist passed this on to me a moment ago. It was sent by text, copied and pasted here. I still am in awe of what we can achieve with ACT – Acceptance […]
Website Woes -Paperwork Panic
Website Woes or Paperwork Panic? Part 1 – under development The Problem? Ever been faced with blank screen panic, empty page anxiety? Maybe you really do want to gain that college course, or degree. Maybe it is a C.V. or a work report. Whatever it might be, it is important to you. It is part […]
ACT for Depression
ACT & Depression This is the reading for today. ACT for Depression. ACT is great for addiction, anxiety, depression, anger, relationships, Parkinson’s, co-dependency, trauma, gambling, panic attacks, phobia’s, OCD, workplace challenges, to name a few of the issues my clients have bought to me this year. ACT for Depression is just one of many publications […]
From A Dark Place. Tony & Paul Husband
From A Dark Place – Tony & Paul Husband Simply moving between Heaven, Hell and back again as addiction attacks a loving family. From A Dark Place goes beyond words to a place that is beyond words in this emotive share of a family visited by addiction. It was my privilege to visit and […]
ACT Just For Today
ACT Today It is likely that 90% of what you think about, that overwhelms, challenges, induces stress etc is not actually happening in the here and now, but our minds looking out for threats. Being able to ground yourself in the here and now as often as possible is a useful tool. I invite you […]
It’s Football
It’s Football To you heroes of the roundball game, who come rain or shine, lace up the boots, pull on the shirt and take to the field, I wish you well. Prepare yourselves well. Your kit, your body, your mind and your soul. Improve. There is one thing you can improve upon each and […]
V.A.T.’s – Value Added Thoughts
Just For Today. V.A.T. What if every action we took today was governed by a mindful connection with our chosen values, principles, and not by our automatic thoughts. Our minds are quite wonderful, maybe to wonderful when left to operate on automatic, dictating our actions and behaviours. V.A.T. Value Added Thoughts, direct actions that move […]
Feel Stuck? Intervention ACT now.
ACT Interventions Ground-hog day behaviours, feelings, same old same old? ACT Interventions move everyone towards goals and away from stuck patterns. Acceptance Commitment Therapy, A.C.T. suggests we only move towards goal in ways conducive to our values. Sometimes this is really difficult, but we accept the difficulty, even if we could avoid discomfort by old […]
