When a client relapses By Benjamin Schoendorff Sue had been doing great. A small, plucky lady beset by panic attacks, she had completed twelve sessions of beautiful and meaningful therapy that had helped her face her anxiety with compassion and kindness. I had been...
10 years of ACT By Benjamin Schoendorff Ten years ago, I was training to become a CBT therapist. I had a strong interest in mindfulness. When my life was chaotic, back in 1994, a friend had taken me to a Zen dojo in a small Paris backstreet. There, in a small and...
Stop biting hooks! By Benjamin Schoendorff Stop biting hooks! And learn how to unhook Don’t you just hate that moment when you realize you’re stuck in an all-too-familiar rut? Was it wasting hours on Twitter, drinking too much or getting into that argument that went...
Stop Taking Your Client's Problems Home With You By Benjamin Schoendorff Taking your clients’ problems home with you is bad for you. It may not even be the best way to help them get better. Here’s why. Kayla is depressed. She has been in therapy with you for a few...
What if we relearned to make choices? By Benjamin Schoendorff Increase the minimum wage. Reduce executive pay. Abolish wage scales… there is much talk of money and what is or isn’t fair remuneration, but what about the decision-making process? I believe we have...
On the Morrow of a Massacre in a Quebec Mosque By Benjamin Schoendorff GENERAL PUBLIC BLOG POST On the Morrow of a Massacre in a Quebec Mosque Faced with the horror of crazy politically motivated massacres, has contextual psychology anything to say? I was asked to...
