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I’ve recently come to understand new dimensions of cognition by doing a deep dive into research on dogs. Canine study labs are turning up convincing evidence that dogs think, feel, process language, problem solve, remember, plan, dream – even love – much like human beings do. Understanding these faculties are not the sole property ofContinue Reading: New Online Class: Understanding Our Best Friend

Most of us enact our relational patterns with little conscious awareness of the moving parts involved. These parts include our interpersonal beliefs [or “rules”] and the roles into which they thrust us.In this audio recording of a recent All Things CBT Class, we practiced the Interpersonal Downward Arrow, a potent cognitive method that gets atContinue Reading: Map Your Relationships!

This question is perhaps more to the point than the question “What is a good approach to therapy?” In this post Vivian Baruch, a colleague with her finger on the psychotherapy outcome literature, takes up this question and provides welcome insight into this fundamental question. Spoiler alert! Decades of meta-analysis say the answer is neitherContinue Reading: What Makes A Good Psychotherapist?

I do! Very many of us experience performance anxiety when faced with the opportunity to speak or play a musical instrument in public. In this post, our weekly All Things CBT community employs both imaginal and in vivo exposure to help a stage-frightened colleague overcome her fear of playing the vibraphone for an audience

Low-intensity CBT [LICBT] is a global movement that trains lay people to deliver quality mental health care for pennies on the dollar charged by professional counselors. All Thing’s CBT’s Pomona Valley California LICBT pilot program was recently evaluated by a third-party expert from Georgetown University’s School Of Medicine. In this post I present the resultsContinue Reading: ¡CBT A La Gente! [CBT To The People!]