Building your practice while using the same kind of therapy you’ve always subscribed to isn’t impossible, but it it’s not easy, either. To attract more clients and create more than one stream of income, you need to develop skills and acquire certifications that show potential clients that you have what they want and need.
FOMO, or Fear of Missing Out, is a term that came into use in the early 2000s, about the same time social media swept through society like a violent wildfire. FOMO is intrinsically linked to social media. The ability for people to display who their friends are and what they do with them has created a two-pronged stimulus that often triggers clients’
What does prosperity mean to you? For most people, visions of riches and worldly possessions come to mind when they envision what it means to prosper. This is, of course, a valid view of prosperity, but it’s not the only one.
So many clients, too many, in fact, arrive at their therapists’ office in a state of total burnout.
It’s true that everyone has the right to their own beliefs, but that doesn’t mean that all belief systems serve the best interests of our clients. This is especially true when we detect that our clients’ beliefs prevent them from fulfilling their desires, or even live up to their own expectations.
Belief systems
Parents can accept the “terrible twos,” that moment in every child’s life when the honeymoon period parents experience with their infants come to an abrupt end. “NO!” the toddler screams, and doting parents look at one another knowingly as they concede that the time has come to deal with this inevitable time period in the
Hypnotherapists take a lot of ribbing, from colleagues as well as the clients they serve. “Are you going to make me cluck like a chicken?” “That’s just a bunch of hocus-pocus.” “I saw something like that at a bowling banquet. How can it possibly be therapeutic?”
These are just some of the questions and
In the mid 1980s, I was a young marriage and family therapist seeing a wide variety of clients. Women would come in who were being abused by their husbands or boyfriends, mothers would bring in children who were angry or depressed and refused to go to school, and then there were the families of young sexual abuse victims. On many days, I felt overwhelmed
Hypnotherapy and EMDR are both exceptionally effective and popular modalities that millions of therapists use. Any choice concerning the two of them is not a matter of “Which one is better?” or “Is one easier than the other to learn?” Therapists who have been trained in both hypnotherapy and EMDR will tell you that they both,
The idea of the mind-body connection isn’t new. It was only when the scientific revolution of 300 years ago or so fragmented our senses of being into various parts that healers stopped treating the mind and body as a whole. The word psychosomatic exists to explain ailments that are as much of a product of mind as they are of body.
There’s
The image that is evoked when we hear the word “bully” usually includes children or adolescents. While there is no doubt bullying among younger people is a huge problem, they are not the only ones who suffer. Many adult clients describe devastating incidents wherein someone who is, whether in actuality or perceived to be, more powerful than