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Reading Time: 12 minutes DJ Courtesy on Finding Balance and Overcoming Health Anxiety On this episode of It’s Complicated, I, Reece Cox, sit down for a conversation with…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Having relocated my private praxis to Berlin, I quickly spotted a tendency: How often the people I work with reveal that they are struggling…
Reading Time: < 1 minute The It’s Complicated podcast takes a journalistic approach to contemporary issues across the broad spectrum of what we call therapy and mental health. Rather…
Reading Time: 3 minutes Common fears around going to counselling is this the right time for me? how will i know? in life, it is never quite the…
Reading Time: 3 minutes I have been working therapeutically with asylum-seeking immigrants since my clinical training year at the Bellevue Program for Survivors of Torture in New York…
Reading Time: 4 minutes Types of Boundaries Specific to Therapy Therapeutic boundaries relate to many things, from the therapist’s self-disclosure, touch, and exchange of gifts to bartering and…
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The vast majority of all clinicians see it as their professional responsibility to empower their clients to take care of themselves. Amongst many behavioral therapists this is done by teaching specific, evidence-based methods of self-care, like mindfulness meditation and deep-relaxation skills. But most people would agree that there’s an element of self-care involved in psychotherapy of any sort.
Reading Time: 2 minutes There are psychological concepts that become so in vogue that they embed themselves permanently in our language and culture. One such phenomenon is the impostor syndrome.
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