All Things CBT

Listen in on one of our All Things CBT sessions this week to experience a powerful cognitive therapy method that comes to us from one of the West’s great thinkers. We also look together at errors therapists make that would lead this method to fail

Please join me in celebrating this month’s release of a wise and wonderful new book, Poems For A World Yet To Be. It’s the first book by Nancy Mintie, executive director and poet in residence at Uncommon Good in Claremont California. In this interview Nancy speaks to her experience of low-intensity CBT, redwood trees, skidContinue Reading: Poems For A World Yet To Be

A warm, loving connection between therapist and patient is the cornerstone for our doing life-changing work together. Sadly, such a bond can go missing, leaving both parties confused, dispirited and alone. I recently spoke with my All Things CBT colleague Heather Clague MD about ways in which therapeutic misalliance crops up in our work –Continue Reading: Therapeutic Misalliance

Here in the dog days of summer, our judges have selected the bronze, silver and gold medalists in All Things CBT’s 2021 World Shame Attacking Championships. We met this week with two of our finalists, announced all the 2021 winners and chatted together about the wonderful world of shameless living. Please join us!

When someone verbally attacks us, we can disarm the attack by finding and agreeing with the truth in their criticism. As soon as we join an attack on ourselves, the attack ends. We and our attacker are both standing on the same side now: there’s simply nobody left to be attacked. A subscriber to ourContinue Reading: The Martial Art Of Disarming Verbal Attacks