A while back I was catching up with a friend I hadn’t seen for a while. We were meant to have a quick coffee and ended up spending a half-day together talking and talking.
I learnt that her relationship was not doing so well and that her mother in law was partly responsible for it. I felt sorry about it ...
Date Posted: March 24, 2017
Categories: Codependency / Dependency, Couple Counseling, Emotional Intelligence, ...
Written By:
Dr Oberdan Marianetti
This infographic on the topic 'Emotional Intelligence and Your Career' which looks at how EQ (emotional intelligence) is the new IQ.See the full infographic below: Created by Brighton School of Business and Management ...
Dec 15
Categories: Career Development and Change, Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Psych Mat Asia Editor
I've been thinking today of trains. Trains are weird places, don't you think? Especially crowded ones. In numerous occasions, I'd have speaking tours before Koreans and Filipinos in Seoul (also in other parts). Whenever I'd ride their trains, I'd be with fellow Filipinos. ...
Jul 7
Categories: Adult psychological development, Emotional Intelligence, Social ...
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
I believe strongly that Happiness is Our Birthright. Yet so many of us, myself included, have days where we feel really bogged down by the pressures we might have at home or work, by ruminations on the past and concerns about the future. We wake up worried about the things we need to complete over ...
Apr 20
Categories: Emotional Intelligence, Happiness, Self-Confidence
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
A lot of the work that we do as therapists involves helping clients to become more comfortable with and aware of their ‘less-than-comfortable’ emotions – and indeed some of my articles before this one have addressed the importance of learning to become more open to negative ...
Apr 7
Categories: Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, Self-Care / Self ...
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
I think one of the most powerful things we can do to create change in our lives is to give up ‘our story’. By this , I mean to let go of parameters and limiting beliefs that we have brought from previous experience into present day. When we do this, we allow ourselves to fully embrace ...
Dec 26
Categories: Adjusting to Change / Life Transitions, Emotional Intelligence, Life ...
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
It’s Friday morning and I’m probably 30 minutes into my 1 hour Hot Hour Bikram Yoga class, which in the 15 years that I’ve been practicing on a weekly basis could be the 3648 time I’ve done this – and yet as I feel the heat emanating off my mat, feeling into my warrior ...
Dec 10
Categories: Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness, Stress Management
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
In ” Why Inspiration Matters” ( Psychology Today, 2011) , Scott Kaufman discusses the power of inspiration as a real driving force towards helping us ...
Oct 24
Categories: Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, Workplace Issues
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
Self- compassion is always an interesting and well deliberated topic in my therapy room- and it comes up ,with most clients, at least once across the sessions that I see them for. Central to the Buddhist tradition of non-duality, its often embodied in the form of a lotus flower ; a reminder of the ...
Oct 16
Categories: Emotional Intelligence, Positive Psychology, Self-Care / Self ...
Written By:
Anoushka Beh
An Introduction to Art Therapy: A Brief Guide to Art Therapy
by Andrew Wright, Clinical Director and Art Psychotherapist, ATIC (1ST Art Therapy Centre in Dubai, UAE.) Art Therapy is a well developed profession in the US and the UK and is an approach that is used to help people of all ages.
Feb 20
Categories: Abortion, Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Adjusting to ...
Written By:
Andrew C Wright (AthR), HCPC registered (UK), BAAT (UK).
Image, Symbol and MetaphorImagine you have a problem that you cannot solve. You feel like you have a mental block. Your brain is tying itself in knots, it’s frustrating as you feel stuck. You cannot stand it no longer so you go for a walk. As your mind wanders you start to relax. Suddenly a ...
Sep 18
Categories: Career Development and Change, Creative Blocks, Emotional ...
Written By:
Andrew C Wright (AthR), HCPC registered (UK), BAAT (UK).
From the theoretical orientation of Dr. William Glasser, founder of Choice Theory Reality Therapy (CTRT), depression is seen as a chosen behaviour not an emotion that you are victim to. So CTRT therapist would say you are DEPRESSING or even anxieting or angering instead of being depressed, anxious or angry. All behaviour is purposeful in ...
Aug 25
Categories: Bereavement, Bipolar, Coping with Medical Problems, Couple ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Counselling seems to be a pretty mysterious process for most people. Unless things are REALLY bad, most people don’t think about counselling or think it’s too expensive or are just not sure how it works. Usually counselling is a last resort rather than a first stop for getting ...
Aug 25
Categories: Abuse / Abuse Survivor Issues, Addictions, Adjusting to Change / Life ...
Written By:
Tammy M. Fontana, MS NCC CTRT Sex Therapist USA
Our childhood teaches us how to relate to others. Adult romantic relationships rely on using the patterns of relating we learn in infancy. Counsellors are trained to help us to deal with complex psychological issues which are damaging to our close relationships. Therapeutic approaches like relationship counselling, draw on psychological ...
Jul 24
Categories: Communication Disorders Problems, Couple Counseling, Emotional ...
Written By:
Joanna Fishman
I’m reminded of one of Dr. Sigmund Freud’s psychodynamic concepts, “ego defenses.” Ego defenses are inhibiting internal mechanisms that prevent us from “knowing” early emotional pain through rationalizing, analyzing, explaining away, minimizing, ...
Apr 23
Categories: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Emotional Abuse, Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Dr. Angelo Subida, Psychotherapist
“The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control their emotions by the application of reason.”
This quote by the 20th century writer Marya Mannes sums up has Western thought has subordinated emotion to intelligence since just after the time of Charles Darwin. Darwin ...
Mar 22
Categories: Emotional Intelligence
Written By:
Tony Brown
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