Some of the best conversations happen when your clients can hear themselves clearly. This is Part II on Depths of Conversation. See the Part I: We Are Hungry For Depth : The five levels of conversation: 1. Informational 2. Emotional 3. Confessional 4. Experiential 5. Activational Shownotes: - Avoid TBU (True But Useless) Information - Why You Need A Guide to Go Deep - Dropout in Psychotherapy (Part I , II , III ) --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD) . The aim is to hel...
Dec 20, 2024•29 min
We yearn not just for deeper conversations, but deeper connections. Connections that make us come alive. The five levels of conversation: 1. Informational 2. Emotional 3. Confessional 4. Experiential 5. Activational Shownotes: - Main Full Circles essay: https://fullcircles.substack.com/p/depth - Information is Not Transformation - Listening into Speech: Will Say, Won't Say, Can't Say. - PostSecret - A Class Divided Documentary - Invisible Wounds --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Deve...
Dec 13, 2024•16 min
Today’s episode is dedicated to two readers of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD): Austin Sparks and Ash Burton. I answer both Austin’s and Ash’s question on working with more than just the individual youth in therapy. I address the challenge and merits, along with six guiding principles, and six strategies that I take. Guiding Principles 1. Give Voice to the Voice-less 2. Listening to Each Other into Speech 3. Being a With-ness to Each Other 4. We are a Community of Internalised Oth...
Dec 07, 2024•38 min
This is about the Difficult Conversations in Therapy (DCT) study that has just recently been released. I talked about1. Main findings 2. Surprising findings 3. Uniqueness 4. The Evolution of the DCT Study 5. What I’ve learned from the DCT Project. Main Study: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1037%25252Ftep0000493/reader See https://darylchow.substack.com/p/ff207 for shownotes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episo...
Nov 22, 2024•23 min
A talk recorded at the Association of Counselling Psychologist (ACP) Conference, Oct 2024. Taking aim at doing the right thing, and not just doing things right. Watch the video version to make sense of the references made in this talk: https://youtu.be/Pa-cv9V3_ZM?si=FTSstO9Ex8g-WLgr CHAPTERS: - Intro: (0:00) - Performing vs. Learning (4:20) -Concept Creep ((10:40) - What is Deliberate Practice(11:39) - Profile of Highly Effective Therapists aka Supershrinks (15:45) The Seven Mistakes: 1. DP is ...
Nov 15, 2024•52 min
An antidote to dogma. See this Substack post for more: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/ff205 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com
Nov 08, 2024•16 min
Here’s the video version: https://youtu.be/wcU7ch-MFW0 This is a Q&A video and podcast series based on a question from a therapist in Glasgow, Scotland. I hope this email finds you well. I'm not sure whether this will get to you, but wanted to reach out as I have been feeling in a bit of a crisis with my practice as psychotherapist. And have been reading your book 'First Kiss' To put it bluntly - there is too much choice! I am constantly distracted and preoccupied by the great myriad of trai...
Sep 29, 2023•17 min
Frontiers Radio podcast is back! Here’s the video version: This is a Q&A video based on a question from a therapist in Montreal: "When Do You Get Time to Read?" I just wanted to say once again that I really appreciate your newsletter . I look forward to reading it every week. This week, I especially liked the comment on the importance of giving more attention to the conversational nature of psychotherapy in our training. I also liked the quote at the end, "It takes two to know one", which ma...
Aug 18, 2023•20 min
n this week's tip, I'd talk about how we can specifically listen for changes between sessions, and why measuring a person's wellbeing matters more than a symptom-specific measure. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance and being outcome informed, here are links: Seek to be Disconfirmed The Devil is the Details Between Sessions How to Use Measures Less Like an Assessment Tool... Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 00:47: Listening for Differences Between Sessions 0...
Oct 14, 2022•6 min
In this week's Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links: 1. Seek to be Dis-confirmed 2. The Devil is the Details Between Sessions 3. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 00:40: Not Just an Assessment Tool 01:08: Why Measure at Each Session 02:44: A Clinical Example of Conflicting...
Sep 30, 2022•5 min
In Therapy Tip of the Week #6, we continue on the topic of improving working alliance. Here's my recommendation, when seeking for feedback, avoid talking about... you! If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links: ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 01:00: Using Depersonalised language 01:42: What Feedback is Not 02:02: Feedback to Feed-Forward 04:14: Summary Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order ...
Sep 23, 2022•6 min
"Every impactful person brings to you themselves and not needing to proof ‘how impactful I am’, ‘how smart I am’, and ‘how needed I am.’" ~ Sr Joan Chittister. If the therapy room is a vessel, it needs a scaffold in order for you to create a healing environment so as to help the person who is in distress. But how do you structure a therapeutic session so that it is impactful for your client and not get caught up with trying to be “impactful…smart…needed”? I want to help you solve this particular...
Sep 16, 2022•10 min
Dissonance can be a powerful ingredient for learning. How do we challenge our intuition in order to listen to our client's unspokens in order to foster a deeper connection with them? In this video, I recommend an exercise that I use called the "Rate and Predict," to help me open up the conversation in therapy. ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 00:25 : What is the Rate and Predict Exercise? 01:25 : Seeking to be Disconfirmed 02:30 : A Clinical Example Note: Any personally identifiable information...
Sep 09, 2022•6 min
In this week's therapy tip of the week, we are going to talk about the subject that you as a psychotherapist would be more than familiar with–except that it's not what you expect. ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00 Introduction 01:08 Three Parts of Working Alliance 01:53 Perspective Taking vs. Perspective Getting 03:14 Highly Effective Therapists and Lower Initial Working Alliance Ratings 03:43 Tip: Compare and Contrast Between Sessions Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used a...
Sep 02, 2022•7 min
As psychotherapists, it's easy to get lost in our heads. Our pet theories end up dominating and preventing us from being in touch with the person in front of us. In this Therapy Tip of the Week , I'd talk about how psychotherapists can employ principles of embodied cognition—the idea of embodiment as a way of thinking—to help you deepen your empathic understanding of your clients, especially in stuck situations. ⏳ Time Stamps: 1. Intro (00:00) 2. What is embodied cognition? A clinical example (0...
Aug 26, 2022•8 min
Understanding the current season you are in helps you figure out where you are at, in order to know where you need to go. Appreciating the seasonality of your inner and outer life provides you a navigational guide as to where you need to nurture your nature. In this video, I provide a way to open a conversational doorway about this with your client, so as to provide focus and directionality of the therapeutic endeavour. ⏳ Time Stamps: 1. Intro ( 00:00 ) 2. What to ask your clients ( 00:59 ) 3. T...
Aug 12, 2022•5 min
In this series on Therapy Tip of the Week , we'll provide psychologists, counsellors and psychotherapists one practical tip in each episode. My idea of giving you this is not so much as to prescribe to you what you should be doing, but to describe possibilities, to give you ideas that can inspire you to create your own ideas in the practice of psychotherapy. My hopes of doing this is that it may widen the palette of possibilities to allow you to see a wide array of different things that you coul...
Aug 12, 2022•9 min
In this esisode, I will walk you through on a practical level, how to use a framework of clinical supervision to translate to actual improvement in outcome. We will take a step-by-step approach to examine what entails a "Coaching for Performance" and "Coaching for Development" framework. For more, check out the course Reigniting Clinical Supervision (RCS), darylchow.com/courses Time Stamps: Introduction (0:00) Coaching for Performance and Development (01:07) Components of Coaching for Performanc...
Jan 30, 2022•14 min
This is a keynote address given by Daryl Chow, Ph.D. for a virtual conference hosted by the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Cumulative evidence in psychotherapy suggests that we not only do not improve with experience, our typical professional development efforts by attending workshops, and engaging in clinical supervision do not lead to better performance. The aim of this keynote is to address the current cutting edge development of deliberate practice in psychotherapy, and its implicatio...
Dec 21, 2021•37 min
In this exclusive episode #10 on Frontiers Radio, we have a special guest, Dr. Scott Miller. We talked about several luminary figures who shaped and influenced his life, pivotal turning points, the writing process and his thoughts around the future of psychotherapy. Time Stamps Intro (00:00) People who shaped Scott's life (05:30) Lynn Johnson and Hal Miller (07:11) Michael Lambert (15:36) On Writing (18:24) Impact of changing track from accounting to psychology (21:15) Pivotal Turning Points (24...
Oct 07, 2021•1 hr 24 min
I believe one of the most critical things you can do is to create a personalised learning system (PLS). Though the payoff is not immediate, but like growing a seed, the benefit is tremendous, especially if you value personal and professional development. In this episode of Frontiers Radio, I take you down a road trip of my note-taking system, and why, after over 10 years, I'm now making a switch to an app call Obsidian. For shownotes go to darylchow.com/frontiers/episode9 or watch the video vers...
Jun 02, 2021•17 min
In the 1950s, A fairly unusual be-spectacled and slender Lieutenant Gilbert Daniels was tasked to solve one of the biggest problems in the US Air Force: Plane crashes. What he unravelled in the process holds a unique lesson for psychotherapists, and why we have been failing to implement and scale "evidence-based" practices as we try to fit the "average person" instead of the individual. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus epis...
May 11, 2021•16 min
We pay tribute to K. Anders Ericsson in today's episode. He is known by many to be "the expert on expertise." His work, along with his colleagues had a profound impact on a wide array of professional domains such as sports, music, chess, and more recently in the field of psychotherapy. His four decades worth of research also informed the hugely popular book by Malcolm Gladwell, Outlier. (Though the "10,000hr" rule thing got misrepresented by others). ~~~ In this episode, you'd hear - the impact ...
Jun 24, 2020•25 min
I found myself telling this story to me kids some nights ago. I believe it's worth retelling here, especially in the current anxious climate surrounding the coronavirus. After the story, I say a few words about why we need to express our heartfelt thanks to people behind the scenes in our healthcare. Plus, why we must support our local communities and businesses when this comes to pass. And finally, news about our Deep Learner workshop, plus giveaway of the audiobook version of my book. Promo co...
Mar 27, 2020•13 min
"I spent half of my life lost in an education system that pushed for results and performance... and failed.. Even when I Began to perform well in undergrad and so on, I wasn't learning ; I was performing ." In today's episode, we draw a distinction between "performing" and "learning," and what we can do to become deep learners. For a video version of this episode, go to https://youtu.be/APLjlZJa3B0 If you haven't subscribed to the Frontiers list to get updates to help you be at your leading edge...
Mar 18, 2020•11 min
No manufacturing company in the US and UK was initially willing to license his vacuum cleaner. James Dyson was laughed at for designing a transparent vacuum cleaner that showed all the filth it sucked up. Today, Dyson the company returns over $500 million in annual profits and employs nearly seven thousand people worldwide. Had the founder given up on the “bagless” vacuum cleaner idea, Dyson would be just another name. Turns out, therapists have one critical thing to learn from James Dyson's inn...
Mar 03, 2020•23 min
"The actual path of a raindrop as it goes down the valley is unpredictable, but the general direction is inevitable."~ Kevin Kelly. In this episode, I spell out 9 potential forces that will shape our future in the field of psychotherapy. If we are stay on the bleeding edge of not only our professional development, and also have an inkling where our field is going, you'd wanna tune to this episode. Here are the 9 forces to pay attention to: 1. "We will be wrong." 2. The Inflation of diagnosis 3. ...
Feb 12, 2020•46 min
If we were given a chance to reimagine education in psychotherapy, how might it look like? How would we design the learning process? What needs to change and evolve? In this podcast episode, we discuss about two different approaches to educating psychotherapists: the banking model vs. the kindling model. Turns out, which path we take makes a huge difference. For the blog version of this episode, go to https://darylchow.com/frontiers/kindling-the-flame/ This is a public episode. If you would like...
Dec 15, 2019•15 min
Frontiers Radio is a podcast for psychotherapists who value deep learning and individualized development that translates to better results with the people you aspire to improve. On the show, you'd acquire cutting edge knowledge that pushes beyond the edge of your development. Deliberate practice principles are pulled together from the studies of expertise and expert performance in a variety of professional fields, including cognitive sciences about how we learn, behavioral economics, aesthetic a...
Dec 11, 2019•2 min
