Five Minutes a Day to an Upgraded Therapy Practice

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.

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.