Monthly Archives: July 2015

Therapist feedback on working for Palace Gate Counselling Service

Posted on July 31, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

In June, we published a new page on this blog giving examples of client feedback we have received recently:- https://palacegatecounsellingservice.wordpress.com/client-feedback/ In the next couple of days, we will publish a companion page of feedback from our therapists, past and present, … Continue reading →

Posted in conflict, core conditions, diversity, encounter, ethics, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, medical model, non-conforming, non-directive counselling, Palace Gate Counselling Service, perception, person centred, political, power and powerlessness, presence, psychiatry, relationship, risk, scapegoating, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, trust, values & principles, working with clients | Tagged according to means counselling, according to means counselling exeter, according to means therapy, affordable counselling exeter, client feedback in counselling, client feedback in psychotherapy, collaborative working, congruence, core conditions, counselling ethics, counselling exeter, counselling placements Exeter, counselling supervision, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, gift culture, low cost counselling exeter, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, talking therapy, therapist development, therapist experience, therapist training, work community, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

What If Everything You Knew About Disciplining Kids Was Wrong? Katherine Reynolds Lewis

Posted on July 30, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/05/schools-behavior-discipline-collaborative-proactive-solutions-ross-greene Thank you to Brent Potter and Elements of Self-Destruction on Facebook for the link to this useful article by Katherine. This is written from a U.S. perspective, but is just as relevant here. The writer feels simultaneously grateful for … Continue reading →

Posted in anger, blaming, child development, cognitive, communication, compassion, compulsive behaviour, conditions of worth, conflict, congruence, core conditions, creativity, criminal justice model, cultural questions, Disconnection, diversity, education, emotions, empathy, empowerment, encounter, growing up, identity, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, parenting, perception, person centred, physical being, political, power and powerlessness, presence, relationship, research evidence, sadness & pain, scapegoating, self, self concept, self esteem, shadow, shame, shaming, teaching, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, transformation, trauma, trust, values & principles, violence, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, behaviour modification techniques, behavioural issues in schools, behaviourism, Carol Dweck, Collaborative and Proactive Solutions, compulsion in education, conforming, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, CPS, criminal justice model, discipline in schools, ecuational model, Ed Deci, education, Eric Kandel, Explosive Child, Katherine Reynolds Lewis, Lives in the Balance, Lost at School, low cost counselling exeter, Mother Jones, neuroscience and behaviour, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, reward and punishment, Ross Greene, Russell Skiba, school to prison, Skinner, social-emotional development, standardisation in education, standardization in education, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Turn Sideways into the Light – David Whyte

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

More beauty from David, thank you. Palace Gate Counselling Service, Exeter Counselling Exeter since 1994

Posted in beauty, consciousness, David Whyte, metaphor & dream, natural world, physical being, poetry, spirituality, surrender, transformation | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, ancestors, childhood, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, David Whyte, low cost counselling exeter, mystery, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, person centred counselling exeter, River Flow, Tobar Phadraic, transfiguration, transformation, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Lauren Southern on Feminism and Equality

Posted on July 26, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

The point she is making feels like an important one. The writer would say that we have a deep, primary need to belong….Outcomes tend to bleak for those of us unable to meet this need adequately. Few would perhaps argue … Continue reading →

Posted in blaming, Brene Brown, bullying, compassion, conditions of worth, conflict, core conditions, criminal justice model, cultural questions, Disconnection, diversity, empathy, empowerment, equality, ethics, external locus, Gender & culture, healing, interconnection & belonging, internal locus of evaluation, kindness & compassion, loneliness, masculine, paradigm shift, political, power and powerlessness, relationship, scapegoating, self, self concept, shame, shaming, transgender, values & principles | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, authenticity, avoiding uncomfortable feeling, belonging, blame and shame model, blaming and shaming, Brené Brown, coercive conformity, collective scapegoating, compassion, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, culture of shame, discrimination against men, dissonance, division, equality, exclusion, feminism, Free Pride, Free Pride Glasgow, gender bias, gender discrimination, gender roles, humility, interconnection, interdependence, Lauren Southern, low cost counselling exeter, men in the criminal justice system, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, pathologising difference, pathologizing difference, person centred counselling exeter, scapegoating, self concept, separation, shaming, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Stretching the Receiving Muscle – Toko-pa

Posted on July 25, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://toko-pa.com/2015/07/20/stretching-the-receiving-muscle/ There is a mantra, not sure where from:- ‘Courage to give, courage to take, courage to receive.’ …the point being we need all three. Many of us favour one kind of courage in this sense, to the detriment of … Continue reading →

Posted in creativity, encounter, feminine, gratitude, grief, human condition, interconnection & belonging, metaphor & dream, perception, presence, resilience, sadness & pain, self, Toko-pa, vulnerability | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, beauty, belonging, connectedness, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, creativity, dreaming, generosity, giving as pathology, gratitude, grief, inspiration, interconnection, interdependence, low cost counselling exeter, nurture, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, paradox, person centred counselling exeter, receiving, receptivity, relationship, scarcity, Toko-pa, Tokopa, wound of scarcity, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk, yang, yin | Leave a comment

James Baldwin on the meaning in death

Posted on July 23, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the … Continue reading →

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Ron Unger – Radical uncertainty: a healing stance for all

Posted on July 21, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://beyondmeds.com/2015/07/19/radical-uncertainty/ Gratitude to Ron and to http://www.beyondmeds.com for this interesting post. The psychiatric paradigm defines (and invites us to define) our distress or disturbance as ‘illness’ in need of ‘treatment’. Ron argues this thereby precludes the most effective healing agent … Continue reading →

Posted in actualizing tendency, anti-psychotics, client as 'expert', clients' perspective, core conditions, cultural questions, empowerment, encounter, equality, ethics, external locus, healing, internal locus of evaluation, non-directive counselling, perception, person centred, person centred theory, power and powerlessness, psychiatry, psychosis, reality, relationship, self concept, therapeutic growth, therapeutic relationship, values & principles, vulnerability, working with clients | Tagged affordable counselling exeter, client as expert, counselling ethics, counselling exeter, counsellor Exeter, counsellors Exeter, Eleanor Longden, equality in therapy, low cost counselling exeter, mental health model, not knowing in therapy, organismic, Palace Gate Counselling Service, Palace Gate Counselling Service Exeter, Paris Williams, person centred counselling exeter, person-centered, person-centred, psychiatric model, psychic civil war, Psychosis, psychotherapy ethics, radical uncertainty, Ron Unger, therapeutic process, therapeutic relationship, www.beyondmeds.com, www.palacegatecounselling.org.uk | Leave a comment

Thích Nhất Hạnh on blaming, reasoning & the core conditions

Posted on July 19, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don’t blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It may need fertilizer, or more water, or less sun. You never blame the lettuce. Yet … Continue reading →

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The ‘professional’s’ role in a free society

Posted on July 18, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

‘It is my opinion that the professional’s role in a free society should be limited to contributing technical information men need to make their own decisions on the basis of their own values. When he pre-empts the authority to direct, … Continue reading →

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Gabor Maté on the roots of addiction

Posted on July 16, 2015 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

“Not all addictions are rooted in abuse or trauma, but I do believe they can all be traced to painful experience. A hurt is at the centre of all addictive behaviours. It is present in the gambler, the Internet addict, … Continue reading →

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