Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice Transtheoretical Tips to Help You Make the Most of Each Session

Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice is a compilation of short, useful suggestions based on classic theory, current research, and wisdom gathered over fifteen years of clinical practice, supervision, and graduate teaching in psychology and counseling. Chapters include highly practical upgrades on standard therapy techniques and ideas for continual therapist development (that respect the busy life of the mental health professional!). The book is made up of ten sections, each with ten short chapters, each readable in under five minutes. It is an indispensable resource for practicing mental health clinicians, including counselors, clinical social workers, psychologists, and other helpers, as well as advanced students in counseling or similar graduate programs.

Introduction; Section One: How Does the "Talking Cure" Cure? (The Infrastructure of Therapy); Section Two: We’ve Got to Walk Before We Dance (Revisiting and Revamping Basic Skills); Section Three: Watch Your Mouth! (Therapeutic Language); Section Four: It’s Actually Not Magic (Exploration of Change Processes); Section Five: What We Can Get Away With (And What We Can, But Shouldn’t); Section Six: Deepening Knowledge (Without a Lot of Spare Time); Section Seven: Ethics for Practice (Not Just the School Stuff); Section Eight: It’s a Lifelong Journey (Real Professional Development); Section Nine: We Are Not Immune (Common Cognitive Distortions; Section Ten: We Can Only Be Who We Are (Self-as-Therapist); Parting Words; Index.

Stephanie Ellis, PhD, is a licensed psychologist with a doctorate in counseling psychology. For over fifteen years, she has been providing psychotherapy, teaching psychology and counseling, and delivering group and individual supervision.