Category: Techniques
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Reframing in practice: 10 examples using the client’s own words
A reframe holds only when it’s built from the client’s own language. Ten short examples of the move from a problem-frame to one the client can act on.
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Paradoxical interventions: when to use them and how to deliver them ethically
A paradoxical prescription works because it sounds wrong. That is also why it needs a clearer ethical justification than a straightforward directive.
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The strategic dialogue: questions that guide the client toward change
A strategic question is not neutral. It is built so that one particular realisation is easier for the client to reach than any other.
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Therapeutic prescriptions that clients actually follow
Most prescriptions fail for the same few reasons. What separates a task a client carries out from one that quietly gets skipped.
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The first session as an intervention: a step-by-step structure
In this model the first session is not intake before the work starts. It is the first attempt at change.
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How to handle resistance without fighting it
A client who doesn’t do the homework isn’t defying you. She is telling you something about the task you haven’t heard yet.