Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development Podcast by Daryl Chow, Ph.D.

How do we organise ourselves within the therapy hour, so that we can create an impactful session for our client? In this podcast episode, we take a leaf from Module 8 of the Structure and Impact Course. If you are seeking to better structure your therapy sessions beyond the confines of specific therapy models, this online course is for you. The new cohort of ​ Structure and Impact​ is now open for...

Here are the final Parts III to VI of HomeKit that are made freely available to you . HomeKit is the first ‘whisper-in-your-ear’ audio companion to help you get unstuck in sticky situations. The topics covered in this episode are Discipline, Expressing Love, Procrastination, and Stress. Each of the lessons consists of 1. An introduction 2. Three strategies 3. Three rationales --- TIMESTAMPS :[2:50...

Here is Part II of HomeKit , the first ‘whisper-in-your-ear’ audio companion to help you get unstuck in sticky situations. The topic today is on Assertiveness. Each of the lessons consists of 1. An introduction 2. Three strategies 3. Three rationales --- Assertiveness Assertiveness is an act of lessening the divide between what’s on the inner and outer -life. Because the life that is inside needs...

In the next six podcast episodes, I will give you six of the ‘whisper-in-your-ear’ complete lessons from HomeKit , the first audio kit to help you get unstuck in sticky situations. Here are the six topics: 1. Anxiety 2. Assertiveness 3. Discipline 4. Expressing Love 5. Procrastination 6. Stress Each of the lessons consists of I. An introduction II. Three strategies III. Three rationales --- Today,...

Some of the best conversations happen when your clients can hear themselves clearly. This is Part II on Depths of Conversation. See the Part I: We Are Hungry For Depth : The five levels of conversation: 1. Informational 2. Emotional 3. Confessional 4. Experiential 5. Activational Shownotes: - Avoid TBU (True But Useless) Information - Why You Need A Guide to Go Deep - Dropout in Psychotherapy (Par...

We yearn not just for deeper conversations, but deeper connections. Connections that make us come alive. The five levels of conversation: 1. Informational 2. Emotional 3. Confessional 4. Experiential 5. Activational Shownotes: - Main Full Circles essay: https://fullcircles.substack.com/p/depth - Information is Not Transformation - Listening into Speech: Will Say, Won't Say, Can't Say. - PostSecret...

Today’s episode is dedicated to two readers of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD): Austin Sparks and Ash Burton. I answer both Austin’s and Ash’s question on working with more than just the individual youth in therapy. I address the challenge and merits, along with six guiding principles, and six strategies that I take. Guiding Principles 1. Give Voice to the Voice-less 2. Listening to...

This is about the Difficult Conversations in Therapy (DCT) study that has just recently been released. I talked about1. Main findings 2. Surprising findings 3. Uniqueness 4. The Evolution of the DCT Study 5. What I’ve learned from the DCT Project. Main Study: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1037%25252Ftep0000493/reader See https://darylchow.substack.com/p/ff207 for shownotes. This is a p...

A talk recorded at the Association of Counselling Psychologist (ACP) Conference, Oct 2024. Taking aim at doing the right thing, and not just doing things right. Watch the video version to make sense of the references made in this talk: https://youtu.be/Pa-cv9V3_ZM?si=FTSstO9Ex8g-WLgr CHAPTERS: - Intro: (0:00) - Performing vs. Learning (4:20) -Concept Creep ((10:40) - What is Deliberate Practice(11...

An antidote to dogma. See this Substack post for more: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/ff205 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

Here’s the video version: https://youtu.be/wcU7ch-MFW0 This is a Q&A video and podcast series based on a question from a therapist in Glasgow, Scotland. I hope this email finds you well. I'm not sure whether this will get to you, but wanted to reach out as I have been feeling in a bit of a crisis with my practice as psychotherapist. And have been reading your book 'First Kiss' To put it bluntly -...

Frontiers Radio podcast is back! Here’s the video version: This is a Q&A video based on a question from a therapist in Montreal: "When Do You Get Time to Read?" I just wanted to say once again that I really appreciate your newsletter . I look forward to reading it every week. This week, I especially liked the comment on the importance of giving more attention to the conversational nature of psycho...

n this week's tip, I'd talk about how we can specifically listen for changes between sessions, and why measuring a person's wellbeing matters more than a symptom-specific measure. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance and being outcome informed, here are links: Seek to be Disconfirmed The Devil is the Details Between Sessions How to Use Measures Less Like an Ass...

In this week's Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links: 1. Seek to be Dis-confirmed 2. The Devil is the Details Between Sessions   3. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback   ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 00:40...

In Therapy Tip of the Week #6, we continue on the topic of improving working alliance. Here's my recommendation, when seeking for feedback, avoid talking about... you! If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links: ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 01:00: Using Depersonalised language 01:42: What Feedback is Not 02:02: Feedback to Feed-Forward 04:14: S...

"Every impactful person brings to you themselves and not needing to proof ‘how impactful I am’, ‘how smart I am’, and ‘how needed I am.’" ~ Sr Joan Chittister. If the therapy room is a vessel, it needs a scaffold in order for you to create a healing environment so as to help the person who is in distress. But how do you structure a therapeutic session so that it is impactful for your client and no...

Dissonance can be a powerful ingredient for learning. How do we challenge our intuition in order to listen to our client's unspokens in order to foster a deeper connection with them? In this video, I recommend an exercise that I use called the "Rate and Predict," to help me open up the conversation in therapy. ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:25 : What is the Rate and Predict Exercise? 01:25...

In this week's therapy tip of the week, we are going to talk about the subject that you as a psychotherapist would be more than familiar with–except that it's not what you expect. ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Three Parts of Working Alliance 01:53 Perspective Taking vs. Perspective Getting 03:14 Highly Effective Therapists and Lower Initial Working Alliance Ratings 03:43 Tip: Compare an...

As psychotherapists, it's easy to get lost in our heads. Our pet theories end up dominating and preventing us from being in touch with the person in front of us. In this Therapy Tip of the Week , I'd talk about how psychotherapists can employ principles of embodied cognition—the idea of embodiment as a way of thinking—to help you deepen your empathic understanding of your clients, especially in st...

Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature. In this video, I provide a way to open a conversational doorway about this with your client, so as to provide focus and directionality of the...

In this series on Therapy Tip of the Week , we'll provide psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists one practical tip in each episode. My idea of giving you this is not so much as to prescribe to you what you should be doing, but to describe possibilities, to give you ideas that can inspire you to create your own ideas in the practice of psychotherapy. My hopes of doing this is that it may w...

In this esisode, I will walk you through on a practical level, how to use a framework of clinical supervision to translate to actual improvement in outcome. We will take a step-by-step approach to examine what entails a "Coaching for Performance" and "Coaching for Development" framework. For more, check out the course Reigniting Clinical Supervision (RCS), darylchow.com/courses Time Stamps: Introd...

This is a keynote address given by Daryl Chow, Ph. D. for a virtual conference hosted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Cumulative evidence in psychotherapy suggests that we not only do not improve with experience, our typical professional development efforts by attending workshops, and engaging in clinical supervision do not lead to better performance. The aim of this keynote is to add...

In this exclusive episode #10 on Frontiers Radio, we have a special guest, Dr. Scott Miller. We talked about several luminary figures who shaped and influenced his life, pivotal turning points, the writing process and his thoughts around the future of psychotherapy.   Time Stamps Intro (00:00) People who shaped Scott's life (05:30) Lynn Johnson and Hal Miller (07:11) Michael Lambert (15:36) On Wri...

I believe one of the most critical things you can do is to create a personalised learning system (PLS). Though the payoff is not immediate, but like growing a seed, the benefit is tremendous, especially if you value personal and professional development. In this episode of Frontiers Radio, I take you down a road trip of my note-taking system, and why, after over 10 years, I'm now making a switch t...