Website Design for Therapists
Posted on Tuesday 7 February 2012
If you’re a counsellor, psychotherapist, psychologist or other mental health service provider, you might be interested in creating a website to promote your services, products, or events.
Websites offer an excellent opportunity for therapists to advertise to potential new clients.
Whilst it is possible to create a website yourself without much technical knowledge, the results usually look poor and unprofessional.
200+ FREE CBT resources for therapists and clients
Posted on Tuesday 9 August 2011
Carol Vivyan is a qualified Cognitive Behavioural Therapist and has generously made over 200 different CBT resources available for FREE download on her website.
These ready-to-use templates can be used by therapists and clients alike and include: Thought Record Sheets, Therapy Goals Sheet, Food Diary, Mood Diary, Unhelpful Thinking Habits, as well as various information sheets on sleep, anger, anxiety, depression, body dysmorphia, etc.
Resource: Overcoming low self-esteem
Posted on Friday 5 August 2011
The Centre for Clinical Interventions is an Australian psychotherapy organisation that uses a CBT approach to help clients overcome depression, anxiety, low self-esteem, and destructive anger. They have produced several FREE resources for both clients and therapists to use as part of the therapy work or as a self-help resource.
Personal development articles for therapists and clients
Posted on Wednesday 1 September 2010
Personal Development for Smart People is a website written and designed by self-help author Steve Pavlina. It’s purpose is to help individuals grow as a conscious human being. The site contains hundreds of free articles that might be useful to therapists for their own personal development, and/or to give to clients who may be struggling with a particular issue or problem.
Record-Keeping of Phone Messages, Email and Texts in Psychotherapy & Counselling
Posted on Tuesday 27 July 2010
Modern digital technologies have raised many complex clinical, ethical and legal issues for psychotherapists, counsellors, MFTs, social workers, psychiatrists and other mental health care providers, as well as for clients, patients, and other consumers of mental health services. This paper addresses the issue of record keeping in regards to phone messages, email, and texting between clients and therapists. It does not address record-keeping for telehealth, tele-mental-health, phone therapy or e-therapy. The paper emphasizes, as with every electronic communication, the ramifications of text messaging, emails or online recording services on security, privacy, and confidentiality are not clear yet. Therapists must use caution, as well as informed consent, when using cutting-edge digital methods to communicate with clients and store such communications.
Understanding Gender Variance/Trans Issues
Posted on Saturday 12 June 2010
Gender variance is a term that refers to those expressions of gender (masculinity and femininity) that do not conform to the dominant gender norms of Western culture. It is a term used in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, anthropology, and gender studies, as well as advocacy groups of gender variant people themselves. It is deliberately broad, encompassing such specific terms as transsexual, transgender, transvestite, third gender, gender-queer, intersex, etc.
8 Solution-Focused Therapy Resources
Posted on Friday 11 June 2010
Psychotherapy Resources: Centre for Clinical Interventions
Posted on Sunday 13 December 2009
The Centre for Clinical Interventions (CCI) is an Australian-based organisation providing clinical services for adults with complex mental health problems. However, their organisation’s website at www.cci.health.wa.gov.au provides an excellent range of FREE resources (mainly CBT-based) for clients and therapists.
The resources include fully-downloadable workbooks on social anxiety, panic disorder, depression and sleeping problems, and are written in plain English.