if you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. thanks for visiting!once in a while i tell people that the name of my company is moritherapy and they say, “oh yes, i know moritherapy!” what they usually mean is morita therapy.
it’s about time i explore what that is. the […]
Entries Tagged as 'therapy'
morita therapy, the psychology of action
May 29th, 2009 · 8 Comments
Tags: therapy
blogging yourself home - the books
May 8th, 2009 · 3 Comments
for the blogging yourself home workshop at MentalHealthCamp, i had referred to a number of books in addition to leon tan’s fabulous article on MySpace and blogging as a form of self therapy.
here they are:
writing from the heart - tapping the power of your inner voice, by nancy slonim aronie
love the friendly, welcoming, comfortable tone […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · depression and mental illness · emotional health · interesting books · the net · therapy
the depressing (side) effects of antidepressants
April 13th, 2009 · 2 Comments
the following is a guest post by kat sanders, who regularly blogs at MRI technician schools. she welcomes your comments and questions at her email address: katsanders2 at gmail.com.
the opinions expressed in this post are kat sanders’ – i personally don’t take as strong a stance as kat, mainly because, as i say time and […]
Tags: depression and mental illness · therapy
eating disorders: mothers and daughters
March 8th, 2009 · 2 Comments
this is a continuation of my conversation with joanna poppink about adults recovering from eating disorders, with an emphasis on how that impacts relationships. joannna poppink is a psychotherapist with a private practice in los angeles specializing in eating disorder recovery (you can see her blog at stop eating disorders.) yesterday i said i […]
Tags: eating disorders, body image & similar topics · therapy
chaotic thoughts on employment counselling
March 4th, 2009 · 7 Comments
another live blog from the career management conference!
glenn olien works in employment/career counselling in the construction industry
warning: aptly, since this is about chaos theory in counselling, these notes will be somewhat chaotic, more than the two live blogs before. kind of like twitter on a blog
questions to be discussed: why do people […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · news and events · psychological research and other things academic · therapy
norm amundson talks about being and doing
March 3rd, 2009 · 2 Comments
this is a live blog of the talk given by norm amundson from the department of educational and counselling psychology and special education at the university of british columbia at the career management association’s annual conference here in vancouver. the topic is
active engagement - the being and doing of career counselling.
norm amundson was the first […]
Tags: psychological research and other things academic · therapy
inability to regulate feelings at the root of fear of flying?
December 8th, 2008 · 9 Comments
a guest post by captain tom, on the topic of fear of flying that we’ve discussed on and off here on this blog.
first, by way of introduction, i’m both an airline captain and a licensed therapist. working with people who have trouble with flying has been my specialty for twenty-eight years.
i am fully trained in […]
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meaningful stories and idle chatter
December 5th, 2008 · 10 Comments
a theme for me in the last little while has been to hear from others, “i don’t want to talk about this because i don’t want to be a burden.”
i honestly think i’m wired differently than most people. hearing people’s meaningful stories, whatever they’re about, is rarely, rarely a burden for me. and […]
Tags: communication · depression and mental illness · therapy
a solution for “but”
November 7th, 2008 · 9 Comments
this morning i posted this on twitter:
question to my buddhist friends: fear of connecting deeply with dharma/the divine = fear of ego death?
william replied in a blog post, ego and the self.
he has some interesting thoughts there that i encourage you to explore, and finishes thusly:
the more we meditate and practice various forms of mindfulness, […]
Tags: blogs of note · creativity: poetry, art, etc. · spirituality · therapy
walking away from guilt: a conversation, part 2
October 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
this is a continuation of my blog post a little while ago on helping a person overcome guilt.
clara’s and my exchanges were a conversation, with a thread going through it of questions (on my part) and replies (on carla’s). at the end of our process, i asked clara to tell me which questions were […]
Tags: emotional health · therapy
“my computer is my horse” - isabella’s artist statement
October 6th, 2008 · 4 Comments
yesterday, sarah luczaj talked about her experience of the connection between therapy and creativity. today it’s my turn. i dug up an artists’ statement i wrote three years ago, and which still holds true.
i write and perform poems, and as a counsellor, i accompany people on their journey as they perform the art […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · spirituality · therapy
therapy and creativity
October 5th, 2008 · 1 Comment
this is a guest post by sarah luczaj, a british therapist and writer, living in poland. she runs an online therapy practice at mytherapist.com and has a poetry chapbook, “an urgent request” coming soon from fortunate daughter press. sarah and i met through the counselling resource blog at counsellingresource.com.
i never quite manage to concentrate […]
Tags: creativity: poetry, art, etc. · therapy
hypnotherapy and fear of flying
September 25th, 2008 · 8 Comments
in this paid review, let me talk a little about fear of flying. i wrote about it last year, when i told you a about my first flight after having experienced a rather terrifying attack of fear of flying in a flight a few years earlier. there were six elements that helped […]
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psychotherapy: understanding versus explaining
September 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment
today, let me point you to an article i wrote at counselling resource, with the title psychotherapy clients as … humans?
here is the excerpt:
is psychotherapy about “cases” to be explained, or about individual persons who need and benefit from understanding? in this review of an article by psychotherapist janet l. etzi, we look at therapy […]
Tags: blogs of note · psychological research and other things academic · therapy
letting go of guilt: a conversation
September 13th, 2008 · 1 Comment
earlier this year, i wrote a few posts on guilt. this turned into a case study with one of my readers where over the course of a few months, we sent emails back and forth. this reader, let’s call her carla, has agreed to publish some of our emails. of course, we’ve […]
Tags: emotional health · therapy



