37 Metaphor Counseling through Clean Language

Practice Techniques

INTRODUCTION Metaphor Counseling, developed by Morris Berg, is a way of working with blocked feelings, traumatic memories and of accessing inner healing and helping resources. There are two main ways of using metaphor in counseling: one is to tell the client stories,...

36 Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing

Practice Techniques

Clinical Prompt [to be used AFTER the technique is understood] Cognitive Process Correction is being used to address the client’s automatic thoughts The client and the clinician agree that there are emotional issues that may be addressed by EMDR Clinician evaluates...

35 The Mirror Model

Practice Techniques

The following material is adapted from ‘THE ‘MIRROR MODEL: A Guide to Reflective Questioning’ by Philip Harland, first published in Rapport magazine, Issue 42, Winter 1998. A Guide to Reflective Questioning “Only reason can convince us of those three...

34 Reframing

Practice Techniques

The major source of this material is the book by Richard Bandler and John Grinder, Reframing, published in 1982. Additional sources are Bernard J. Baar’s A Cognitive Theory Of Consciousness, published in 1988, Evolutionary Psychology and the Emotions, Leda Cosmides...

33 Shoulds

Practice Techniques

This technique is an adaptation of the material in Chapter 7 in the book Self-Esteem, New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 1992 by Matthew McKay & Patrick Fanning. Technique #33 Shoulds ‘Shoulds’ are a limited thinking pattern or cognitive error which are defined in...

32 The Pathological Critic

Practice Techniques

This technique is an adaption of the material in the book Self-Esteem, New Harbinger Publications, Inc, 1992 by Matthew Mckay & Patrick Fanning. INTRODUCTION Definition The pathological critic is a term coined by psychologist Eugene Sagan to describe the negative...