Therapies: Brief Guides

Business coaching can improve your career or your business without you being told what to do or how to do it. And it can be more cost effective than an expensive business consultant! Business consultants tell you what to do (sometimes conflicting with your own instincts) and there's no guarantee that the consultant can predict the future. In contrast, in business coaching the expert turns out to be: YOU! (even if you don't yet believe it). A business coach will help you to get the best out of yourself, your career or your business. After all, there's no-one quite...

Hippocrates, the ancient Greek physician and the ‘father of modern medicine’, knew a thing or two about relieving pain. Massage was one of his principal means of soothing the sick.  Pliny, the Roman naturalist, who suffered from asthma, was rubbed regularly, as was Julius Caesar, an epileptic, who also suffered from neuralgia and headaches. It [...]

The founder of Psychodrama was Jacob Levy Moreno, a Romanian psychiatrist and contemporary of Freud. Two of the important aspects of Moreno’s work are his role theory and theory of spontaneity. In his role theory he invites us to consider ourselves as role holders, as if taking part in a play or a drama; he suggests that our roles are primary to the development of the self.

How does a systemic couple counsellor ask questions of a relationship? Making interventions of individuals ("how do you feel about that?") doesn't actually address the relationship itself.