"Someone suggested Internal Family Systems as a model with which I could work - and I loved it immediately. How has it changed me as a practitioner? It's taught me to slow down and stay with what's in the room. It's given me the ability to trust myself and the other person to just be with what's here. What I love about the work is that people start to feel differently inside before any big shifts happen. They notice an ease arising in the day-to-day". In this 7 minute interview with Alison, …
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Video interview with Keith Tudor
"One of the problems with the Person-Centred approach is that it’s become so commonplace. People talk about ‘the core conditions’ but then go off and do other things... I also think there’s a bit of ignorance about it, that people haven’t really studied it in depth, so they see it as a bit “light". What I want to communicate is that there is a real depth to the Person-Centred approach and also, a lot of it is going to be about updating it. It’s moved on since 1957 when Rogers wrote his major …
Video interview with Akira Ikemi
"Focusing is something that clients do - that successful clients naturally do - as Gendlin discovered. Focusing is the space before concepts, before words. There's a sense of something meaningful there but no words are there yet. As therapists, we try and stay with the client "in a Focusing space" while they look at their experience 'as it is' and wait for new expressions about it to form." In this 10 minute interview with Alison, you'll hear Akira speak about what might occur when a client is …