How does cognitive therapy help depression?

Cognitive therapy is as effective as anti-depressants. I use a strengths-based approach. We will identify your values and aspirations and develop goals based on them. We will locate your schemas, which are mental structures that organize information. Develop realistic views about yourself, the world, and others, known as the cognitive triad. For depression, I will… Continue reading How does cognitive therapy help depression?

Socratic Questioning

Socrates looms large in psychotherapy. His style of questioning has persisted for a couple millennia. I will ask Socratic questions, but I won’t drink hemlock. All questions are not equal. Socratic questions are an essential part of Cognitive Behavioral Therapy. Some typical Socratic questions, according to Christine Padesky are 1. Have you ever been in… Continue reading Socratic Questioning

Motivational Interviewing

Why and how do people change? Psychotherapy took a confrontational style up until about the 1970s. But we have developed more of a collaborative approach called Motivational Interviewing (MI) since the 1980s. With MI we will develop “the righting reflex.”  People become ambivalent. MI has developed sort of a science of change. I will develop… Continue reading Motivational Interviewing

Why did the chicken cross the road?

Fowl humour: “A Cluckwork Orange” Answer from… Albert Einstein:  Whether the chicken crossed the road or the road crossed the chicken depends upon your frame of reference. Aristotle: To actualise its potential. B.F. Skinner: Because the external influences which had pervaded its sensorium from birth had caused it to develop in such a fashion that it would… Continue reading Why did the chicken cross the road?

Ways to Get Motivated When Feeling Depressed

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