Safe and Effective Use of Self (SEUS)
One of the defining competencies of psychotherapy practice, Safe and Effective Use of Self refers to the therapist’s learned capacity to understand his or her own subjective context and patterns of interaction as they inform his or her participation in the therapeutic relationship with the client.
Here is why you should be extremely careful on the road (not anxious though)
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Delivering an online course may be an opportunity for those who have a lot of knowledge and want to share it with others.
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QUESTION:
I’m suffering from depression and anxiety which are caused by a recent life event.
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People tend to procrastinate at the start of a project either because of fear or uncertainty (or some combination of the two).
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Is it lonelier at the bottom or at the top? Psychologist links ambition to mental health
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Salovey and Mayer proposed a model that identified four different factors of emotional intelligence: the perception of emotion, the ability reason using emotions, the ability to understand emotion and the ability to manage emotions.
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One of the best books I have read. Here is the essence.
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Positive thinking is something we are born with, but lose soon. Pain, discomfort, hunger, disappointment make us believe that we do not deserve something, life is not worthy, and others are against us.
However positive thinking may be boosted and revived. Through culture, for example.
I'm a Toronto based psychotherapist and I was born and raised in Russia. I completed my PhD in Psychology of Personality from Southern Federal University, Russia in 2008, and have a PhD in psycholinguistics.
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