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Coping with Change - Strategies And Approaches

Change is a certainty in everyone's life. The manner in which people deal with change also changes. Through learning and life experience, individuals develop varied levels of flexibility towards transition, and these levels commonly dictate the person's a... Read >

Neuroscience: What is Brain Plasticity?

Neuroscience has changed considerably in the past 20 years. An example of change over period is the concept of brain plasticity. Brain plasticity refers to the brain's ability to rewire itself, relocating information processing functions to different brai... Read >

Tips and Strategies to Build Rapport with Clients

In previous we've discussed the ‘business-side' of counselling: marketing tips and business guidelines which can help counsellors build a successful practice. Most therapists possess an innate desire to help others, and because of this emotional involve... Read >

Building a Successful Counselling Business: Tips and Guidelines

In a previous article we discussed the importance and applications of marketing in counselling. There was a particular focus on the initiation of a counselling practice. Although marketing has an important, and often overlooked, role in developing a couns... Read >

Marketing in Counselling: Tips for a Successful Practice

Professionals in the health and allied industries, including doctors, nurses, psychologists, counsellors, social workers, etc, often work from their own self-employed businesses. In Australia, a considerable section of the industry is self-employed, whils... Read >

Narrative Therapy: Concepts and Applications

"A narrative or story is anything told or recounted; more narrowly, something told or recounted in the form of a causally-linked set of events; account; tale, the telling of a happening or connected series of happenings, whether true or fictitious" (Denni... Read >

New Year's Resolutions: Stick to It

I'm sure the New Year has encouraged you to make some New Year resolutions and raised the familiar question of: 'how am I going to keep to my New Year resolutions?' So what exactly is a New Year resolution and what can you do to give yourself the best pos... Read >

Self-Disclosure: Underpinnings and Applications

Are you a very important person? Sure you are. The reason for this answer is the same to almost everyone in this planet: we like talking about ourselves, we enjoy being listened, we praise our achievements, and we are very much into introspection. Althoug... Read >

The Word: Fear

"Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear." (Bertrand Russell) Myrmecophobia, phalacrophobia, hobophobia, acrophobia, pentheraphobia, hypengyophobia, venustraphobia, a... Read >

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Four

Stage Four: Learning and Perpetuating Dealing with human behaviour is never a static process. Learning from each experience is the secret to naturally widen one's perspective towards the world, improve one's ability to understand people and to effectiv... Read >

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Three

Stage Three: Dealing with Challenging Situations One of the foremost challenges facing counselling professionals is to understand the complex role that diversity plays in their work. In counselling, each client's needs and objectives should be consider... Read >

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part Two

Stage Two: Becoming an Effective Counsellor According to Meier and Davis (1997, p.61) "in no other profession does the personality and behavior of the professional make such difference as it does in counseling. Beginning counselors need to work at incr... Read >

Creating the Counsellor Mindset: Part One

Diverse values, specific development, varied experiences, a unique mindset - mix it up and include a touch of interpretation and you have a human being with a social outlook. Leveraging differences between people is a daily necessity of living in societie... Read >

People and Pets: a Good Chemistry

Have you ever had a pet in your life? You may be part of a minority group who answered NO, but there is still a good chance you have been involved with pets: your neighbour's cat, your best friend's dog, your cousin's fish. Pets are everywhere: it is esti... Read >

Inside Anger

It is Friday. You woke up, went to the kitchen, and poured some orange juice into a glass. Your week has been very productive so far, and today's weather is particularly conducive to a good mood. To enhance that positivity, tomorrow the weekend will begin... Read >