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The Therapeutic Alliance
At the heart of any successful therapy lies the therapeutic alliance. The working relationship you have built with your psychologist will...
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The Importance of Reflection
For many people, the first session with a psychologist is full of uncertainty. Are they able to help me? Does psychotherapy actually...
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Are you a true hypocrite?
Are you someone who claims to care about the environment, yet also sometimes drinks cocktails through a plastic straw? Are you someone...
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The Emotion of Protests
The people of Hong Kong have taken to the roads to express their disagreement with the proposed extradition bill. People protest to...
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Emotions: Avoid or Embrace?
Many clients come into therapy because they find their emotions overwhelming. In particular, anxiety, anger, and pain can be hard to...
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Phantom Pain: When it Hurts in a Limb that is Gone
We may often feel pain around our bodies that triggered by various types of stimulation, such as heat, cold, pressure, skin damage,...
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Emotions are Physical
When clients are driven to therapy by unwanted, overwhelming, negative emotions, I frequently ask clients how these emotions feel in...
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The Benefits of Social Anxiety
Many clients come to me reporting that they have social anxiety as expressed in an excessive worry about being negatively evaluated by...
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WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS?
Outside of the mental health world, psychologists and psychiatrists may be seen as the same thing – professionals to reach out to when we...
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Animal-Assisted Interventions: The Power of the Human-Animal Bond
The power of the human-animal bond in improving mental health and well-being is becoming increasingly recognized. This bond is traced...
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Couple Therapy – A Last Resort?
Couple therapy shouldn’t be a last resort but a chance to change negatives into positives, says psychologist Esslin Terrighena. If you...
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5 Reasons you should be a Mindful Leader
Mindfulness can make you a stronger, more emotionally intelligent leader. Here’s how ‘People think they have to go off and meditate for...
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The Value of Investing in Mental Health
We often assume that mental well-being simply means being happy, while mental stress means being sad. However, the range of mental health...
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Mindfulness in the Moment
Mindfulness has become a trendy buzzword, bringing with it promises of a calm, clear mind and balanced emotional well-being. But what is...
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Active Listening – Making Others Feel Heard
She always interrupts me.” – “He never listens.” One of the most common complaints in relationship conflict is not feeling heard. Whether...
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Assertive Communication: Making Yourself Heard
Last month, we explored active listening as a way of making our conversation partners feel heard. This month, let us focus on making...
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Cortisol and the Immune System: How Work-Stress can affect our Down-Time
Have you ever embarked on that long-awaited holiday trip after busy times at work, only to find yourself in bed with a full-blown flu?...
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Impact of concurrent cognitive processing on cold pain perception: Implications for pain management
The similarities between self-experienced and vicarious pain have led research to suggest that both experiences may be facilitated by...
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The Neuroimaging of Vicarious Pain
The similarities between self-experienced and vicarious pain have led research to suggest that both experiences may be facilitated by...
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Effects of vicarious pain on self-pain perception: investigating the role of awareness.
The observation of pain in others may enhance or reduce self-pain, yet the boundary conditions and factors that determine the direction...
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