Author: mratcliffe

Sometimes, treatment takes more sessions than expected. This article highlights one of the reasons this might be and gives a suggestion on how to help the patient understand why.

How a therapist dealt with potential unintended consequences of treatment and helped the patient to give informed consent.

Treating addiction. One therapist’s experience of how this symptom was approached, successful outcome achieved and the valuable lessons learnt along the way.

As therapists, we can be asked if we can treat a condition or issue we know little or nothing about; we need to know how to reach an answer. We need general guidelines that we can use in all these kinds of cases. Here is one therapist’s systematic way through the process for whatever is the specific condition, diagnosis or symptom.

Questioning the patient’s conscious understanding of reactions can open treatment up to more far-reaching, beneficial outcomes.