There are four different Psychotherapy CPD Blogs:
These blogs are of interest certainly to practising counsellors and psychotherapists and their continuing professional development, but also to other practitioners in the psychological therapies, and more generally the helping professions.
Bringing an integrative, embodied and relational perspective to any kind of helping relationship helps us understand that the art of helping is not straightforward. It is not just a question of one person intending to help and the other person asking for it. There are lots of unspoken and unconscious aspects to every such communication which get in the way of the intention.
Below you can find a description of the four blogs, and then a random selection of some posts.
Relevant to counsellors and psychotherapists of all approaches and modalities, this blog contains bits and pieces of writing, recent drafts and current thinking as well as commentary on topical themes. Some of these posts constitute substantial discussions of important topics and are more like long articles, some are fairly short and snappy and to the point.
This blog also includes a subcategory 'Tutorials' (so you can search for them separately) - these address basic issues of 21st-century psychotherapy.
Relevant to counsellors and psychotherapists of all approaches and modalities, this blog contains news about our programme, projects and new developments as well as other interesting new about resources, events and conferences from across the field.
When counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and associated disciplines are called 'impossible professions', this is often understood as a tongue-in-cheek conversational quip, a collective exclamation of mock exasperation: "What can you do? It’s impossible!” - and then we continue as before...
But I have come to think that the quip points to an important, even essential, truth about our work: the therapeutic profession - and the ‘helping relationship’ generally – hinges on a fundamental paradox, which the quip points to, but does not help us to understand, let alone fully address. Having investigated the kernel of truth inherent in that notion over the last few decades, I now conclude that it has the potential to profoundly enhance our work: when we grasp the nettle which is the impossibility at the heart of our profession, the depth, breadth and effectiveness of our therapy increases dramatically.
Do therapists - across the approaches and modalities - overestimate the degree of working alliance they have with their clients?
If so, why? What are the consequences? What do we do about it?
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Online Enquiry: Overestimating the Working Alliance?
Investigating our shared ‘implicit relational knowing’ about the working alliance by considering the question: Do therapists tend to over-estimate the…Continue reading »
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Welcome to our new INTEGRA CPD website
Finally, after about 9 months' work since our wonderful WordPress webdesigner finalised the basic framework, the new site is ready…Continue reading »
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Interview for Psychotherapy Excellence webcast series
A series of 10 interviews by Psychotherapy Excellence, starting with the question: What is Psychotherapy? (Michael's interview is session 8…Continue reading »
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General Principles of the CPD we Offer at INTEGRA …
Features of our courses: offering up-to-date, clinically relevant information and skills content and process are in line with and drawing…Continue reading »
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Sustainable practice in the ‘impossible profession’? – Interview with Michael Soth
An interview with Michael in preparation of this CPD workshop "Sustainable practice in the 'impossible profession'?" organised by the Wimbledon…Continue reading »
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The Client’s Conflict becomes the Therapist’s Conflict – CPD workshop in Oxford 19 Jan 2019
How to spot it and what to do next - a step-by-step recipe book (for processing the therapist’s dilemmas) A…Continue reading »
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New paper indicates counselling is comparable to CBT in treating depression
"I am delighted to inform you that following a collaboration between BACP and the University of Sheffield an academic paper…Continue reading »
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Ongoing Integrative CPD Group
A broad-spectrum integrative, embodied & relational group for counsellors and psychotherapists from across the therapeutic approaches and modalities - with…Continue reading »
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Bi-monthly Supervision & Personal-Professional Development Group (online Zoom)
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Visionary psychoanalyst Harold Searles has died
Harold Searles has died - see obituary and commentaries on this visionary psychoanalyst. There is also a piece of writing…Continue reading »
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Interview with Michael: “The Relational Turn in Body Psychotherapy”
In this interview, Nancy Eichhorn was asking about Michael’s background and contribution to the Relational Body Psychotherapy Panel at the…Continue reading »
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Body Psychotherapy and the Body in Supervision – Interview for CONFER (2013)
In this interview, Jane Ryan from CONFER was asking Michael about Body Psychotherapy, the role of the body in our…Continue reading »
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Bi-monthly Supervision & Personal-Professional Development Group
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What is the role of transference in trauma work?
As we are just planning and thinking about Morit’s forthcoming CPD workshops on integrative trauma therapy, this topic is currently…Continue reading »
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Presentations from Conference ‘Embodied Intersubjectivity in the Clinic’ with Shaun Gallagher
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1. Continuing Development in an ‘impossible profession’?
The more I am developing, the more impossible it gets? When counselling, psychotherapy, psychoanalysis and associated disciplines are called 'impossible…Continue reading »
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The Vicissitudes of Therapeutic Assessment
The following piece was written in preparation for a training day on “First Sessions and Initial Assessments and Dilemmas”. The…Continue reading »