Guilt is gold

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This is How Positive Change Happens… As one of my trainers in ISTDP, Dr Patricia Coughlin, puts it, “guilt is the most misunderstood emotion”. We tend to have so much reactivity to our emotion of guilt. For example, we tend to get it confused with...

Internal Problems and Goals in ISTDP

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This is How Positive Change Happens… In ISTDP therapy sessions, we team up to work on – and come back to – this key question in the image below as an anchor. It helps keep us focused and it supports us to make progress in the work as soon as we can...

What Does it Mean to be More Vulnerable?

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This is How Positive Change Happens… “I’m reading a book by Brene Brown on vulnerability and I want to be more vulnerable.” “I want to be more vulnerable with my partner but I get scared.” “I’m trying to feel my feelings...