Aaron Beck is often considered the Father of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (cognitive basically means thinking). In his research on...

DEARMAN is an Interpersonal Effectiveness Skill within Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT)*. DEARMAN teaches an individual how to ask for...

Trauma is more than a terrorist attack, a motor vehicle accident or even a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). Trauma is...

“What happens if I have a low IQ score? Is there something wrong with my brain? Will I be labeled as an idiot if I have a low enough...

One of the things that I have learned through my career is that language has a subtle but powerful influence on how it impacts us. We are...

Here is a riddle: When we ask this question you can never say yes to it? Answer: Are you asleep yet? We spend one third of our lives...

Like it or not the coronavirus (COVID-19) has arrived on Australian shores. This unprecedented situation has caught many of us off-guard,...

Let us recap. We know about: 1) Three parts of the brain: Survival Brain, Emotional Brain and Thinking Brain, 2) There is developmental...

The Triune Brain is a brain model created by Paul D. MacLean in the 1960’s that explains the evolution of the vertebrate’s brain. I like...

We often hear of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy or CBT for short. What is CBT and how does it work? CBT was pioneered by Aaron T. Beck in...

“He is not a bad person. I…. I just do not feel like I want to go back home. I just…… I just dread the thought of it. I mean he has never...