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5 reasons I love Dialectic Behaviour Therapy skills training for marginalised clients

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Dialectic Behaviour Therapy (DBT for short) is an approach that works with people on developing psychological skills that they can use in their day to day lives. Most people have three elements to their DBT work. These are skills training, 121 psychotherapy and between-session coaching. In this article, I am just focusing on the skills […]

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Five ways to work with a social comedown

If you haven�t read the last post, you might want to start there, since it has a much longer definition of what a social comedown is. In brief, social comedowns consist of difficult thoughts, sensations, feelings and urges arising after socialising that often include ruminating over past distress and judging yourself for having a hard

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Social comedowns: the morning after the night before

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Do you have comedowns after socialsing? If so, you’re not alone. This piece explores what social comedowns feel like and how we can destigmatise them.

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Working with your values in conflict

Many forms of psychotherapy suggest that people work with their own values to build a fulfilling life. Both Acceptance and Commitment therapy and Existential psychotherapy are particularly built around the idea that your own core values form an important foundation to creating a life worth living. Despite having a lot of time for these approaches,

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Mindful tooth brushing

I�m not a huge fan of brushing my teeth. I�ve found it boring and uncomfortable – probably because it has such intense sensations to it that I can�t avoid being in my body to feel them. In my move from avoiding sensations to embracing them, I decided that daily uncomfortable physical experiences could help me

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