This blogging thing, leads me in many different directions. I’ve been thinking about my progression… evolution as a “cognitive therapist.” I still hang onto that title, though, somewhere may have forgotten completely what that means. My focus has been, and will likely always be, about the mental juggle that we all have going on in our brain. We have random thoughts, thinking errors, mind chatter, under-currents all going on simultaneously with the actual “things” we have to think about throughout our day. It is often this jumble of thoughts that get us into trouble mentally, emotionally, and behaviourally. It may be truly dangerous that my thinking has been allowed to evolve without “supervision” to keep me in check. My evolution has lead me into the world of solution focused thinking, clinical hypnosis and mindfulness… none of which are a far stones throw away from pure cognitive therapy. I added thinking to the end of solution focussed in replacement of therapy, because I don’t just see it as a therapy, but, truly a way of perceiving things and, I as I see the clients thoughts in a certain way, I tend to manipulate my clients into seeing things a certain way (I’ve touched on this in a previous blog).
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