Category: Clinical applications

In panic disorder the client’s effort to prevent the next attack is usually what keeps the alarm primed. A three-session structure, and what three sessions can’t do.

Checking and asking don’t settle an obsessive doubt. They train the mind to treat doubt as intolerable. How to interrupt that training.

In an escalating couple each partner’s response is also their attempted solution, and it is precisely what keeps the other’s behaviour running.

An anxious child rarely maintains the fear alone. A parent’s reassurance, and an imbalance in who is involved, usually does half the work.

Most clients who see a therapist once did not drop out. For a real share of them, one session was always the plan.