Blog Archives

• New Book – Teach Yourself: Stoicism and the Art of Happiness (2013)
• Special Offer: April Certificate in Evidence-Based Hypnotherapy (London)
• A Simple Modern Approach to Stoicism
• Newsletter: Special Discounts on Upcoming Hypnotherapy Training
• Some Questions for Creative Problem-Solving
• Tweet: The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy on Amazon
• Roundup of Recent Posts
• New: Browse The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy (2012) on Google Books
• Video: Stoic Philosophy and Psychotherapy Workshop at Exeter University
• Review – Stoic Serenity: A Practical Course on Finding Inner Peace (2006) by Keith Seddon
• How Fragile is Worry?
• Best Prices for Books by Donald J. Robertson
• New Book: The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy (2012) by D. Robertson
• Worksheet: Re-evaluating Coping Behaviour
• What’s the point checking things?
• Excerpt from Build your Resilience (2012)
• Mindfulness and Acceptance-based Exposure Therapy Recordings
• Browse Contents: Build your Resilience (2012) by Donald Robertson
• Mindfulness Exposure Script
• ACT Video Exercise on Accepting Emotions
• The Attention Training Technique (ATT)
• Review of Stoic Spiritual Exercises by Elen Buzaré
• Book Review: Plato’s Republic (Capstone Edition)
• CBT for Intolerance of Uncertainty and Chronic Worry
• Interview Anxiety: Some Basic Tips for Confidence-Building
• Foreword to The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Positive Psychology & Resilience-Building
• Developing your Emotional Resilience
• Review: Philosophy for Life and Other Dangerous Situations (2012) by Jules Evans
• My Daughter’s Birth from Build your Resilience (2012)
• Out Now: Build your Resilience (2012) by Donald Robertson
• Initial Assessment Questions: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Prevalence of Anxiety & Mood Disorders (NCS-R)
• A Metacognitive Model of Depression
• Appraisal of Obsessions & Compulsions
• Stoicism and CBT
• Mindfulness & Social Resilience
• Adaptive Checking in Metacognitive Therapy
• Four Books by Donald Robertson
• The Essence of Stoic Philosophy
• Review of Never Too Late to be Great by Tom Butler-Bowdon
• Stoic Philosophy & Resilience-Building
• NHS Video: Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Decatastrophising in Cognitive Therapy
• Review: The Anxiety and Worry Workbook by David M. Clark and Aaron T. Beck
• What your therapist didn’t tell you…
• Mindfulness: Some Initial Experiments
• What not to Think: The Distortion-Spotting Exercise
• Distancing Techniques in Cognitive Therapy
• Brief Mindfulness Exercise CD
• Brief Mindfulness Meditation Strategies
• Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
• Clinical Supervision
• Psychological Resilience-Building
• Aimless Relaxation
• New: Self-Hypnosis and Hypnotherapy Taster Workshop
• New Book: Teach Yourself Resilience
• How to Live in the Here and Now
• Stoicism: Living in the Present Moment
• Assertiveness Techniques: Some Typical Examples
• CBT Self-Help for Managing Worry
• Some General Problem-Solving Strategies
• Pain Control Strategies
• Detached Mindfulness in Social Anxiety
• Generating Alternative Perspectives
• Stages in Applied Relaxation Training
• Behaviour Therapy CD: Applied Relaxation
• Recording: Tension-Release Relaxation (Short Version)
• Self-Hypnosis CD: Fractional Relaxation (Short Version)
• The Existential Question Paper
• Brief Muscle Relaxation Script
• Detached Mindfulness (DM)
• Brief Problem-Solving Therapy (PST) Strategies
• Key Beliefs in Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD)
• Enhanced Motivational Review
• Identifying Personal Strengths
• Quick Decatastrophising Exercise
• Some Questions about Core Beliefs
• Self-Help Skills in Cognitive Therapy: 3-Systems Approach
• Self-Help Skills in Cognitive Therapy: The ABCDE Model
• Rating Control in Cognitive Therapy
• Value Clarification Exercises
• Resilience & Positive Psychology
• Resilience-Building in CBT: Some Initial Questions
• Book Review: Developing Resilience, A Cognitive-Behavioural Approach by Michael Neenan
• Health Anxiety
• Panic Attacks: Some Initial Questions
• The Transcendence of the Ego (John-Paul Sartre)
• Cost-Benefit Analysis: Motivation in CBT
• Keeping a Tally in CBT
• Simple Experiments for Social Anxiety
• Cognitive Therapy of Social Anxiety: Re-appraisal Form
• Contented with Little by Robert Burns
• NHS Anxiety Video
• Video About Social Anxiety from NHS Choices
• Cognitive Therapy: “What not to think.”
• Building a Hierarchy for Exposure Therapy
• On the Virtues of Yawning in Therapy
• Cognitive Model of Anxiety (Key Principles)
• The Vicious Cycle of Anxiety
• Worry Postponement and Exposure
• Social Anxiety: Causes and Cures
• Appraising your Sense of Safety
• Pain Management using CBT
• Hypnotic Relaxation Script (Traditional Style)
• Review: The Power of Accepting Yourself
• Cognitive Models of Social Anxiety: Part 2
• Cognitive Models of Social Anxiety: Part 1
• An Early Cognitive Model of Health Anxiety
• Beck’s Cognitive Model of Anxiety
• Problem-Domain Analysis Form (Revised)
• How to do Self-Hypnosis
• What Makes your Problem a Problem?
• The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
• The Cognitive Model of Stress (Pretzer & Beck, 2007)
• Assessing the Impact of a Problem
• Stress & Anxiety: Some Questions
• Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT) Factsheet
• Coping with Noise: Coping Strategies for Noise-related Stress
• Progressive Muscle Relaxation Script
• The Practice of Cognitive-Behavioural Hypnotherapy
• Develop a Problem-Solving Attitude
• Knocking Worry on the Head
• What are your goals for therapy?
• Cognitive and Behavioural Coping Response Checklist
• Being AWARE in Cognitive Therapy for Anxiety
• Some Initial Cognitive Therapy Questions for Anxiety
• Simple Cognitive Therapy: Anxiety Reappraisal Form
• Handout: Self-Exposure Therapy for Anxiety
• Developing a Safety Script to Help Cope with Anxiety
• The Philosophy of CBT: Available Now
• Behaviour Therapy for Blood Phobias
• Letter from Donald Robertson about Solutions: London Cognitive Therapy Centre
• Ancient Love Therapy (Part 3)
• Ancient Love Therapy (Part 2)
• Ancient Love Therapy (Part 1)
• William James on Acting “as if”
• Learn to Cope with Anxiety (Part 2)
• Learn to Cope with Anxiety (Part 1)
• “Stop and Think” in Ancient Philosophical Therapy
• New Hypnosis & CBT Clinic in Harley Street, London
• Four Types of Social Anxiety
• Assertiveness and Body Language
• Marcus Aurelius on Stoic Empathy
• Review: Feel The Fear And Do It Anyway (1987) by Susan Jeffers
• Does Assertiveness Raise Self-Esteem?
• Excerpt: “Shame-Attacking Exercises” from The Philosophy of CBT
• Excerpt: “Ancient Social Anxiety” from The Philosophy of CBT
• Where does self-confidence come from?
• Three-Dimensional Assertiveness
• Self-Consciousness in Social Anxiety
• Assertiveness & Social Anxiety Clinic
• Four Myths of Assertiveness
• Self-Hypnosis MP3 for Assertiveness
• Four-Step Assertiveness Strategy
• Andrew Salter on Assertiveness and Emotional Self-Expression
• New Website: UKassertiveness.com
• Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)