We have to go slow to go fast
We come to therapy when we want to change. Sometimes we are desperate to change, and that urgency makes complete sense; we feel awful and we want to feel better...
Author: Kaspa
Why therapists should be clients
I’ve just returned to personal therapy. I’m confident this is a good thing for my clients, as well as for me personally. Being a client reminds me how it is for...
What is Wild Mind?
I’m half-way through my training in Wild Therapy. You may have seen me writing about the power of working outside before (here and here). We work outside a lot ...
Is love a dirty word?
Read my article about therapists love for their clients at the Counselling Directory: is Love a Dirty Word?
Healing with Internal Family Systems
Read my new article on the Counselling Directory website, about healing with IFS – a research backed form of therapy: Healing with Internal Family Systems...
One thing you can do to improve your mental health
This is a piece about songlines, and about maps, and about one thing you can do to improve your mental health. A couple of weeks ago I was walking through a val...
The magic ingredient of therapy
There are lots of wonderful techniques that we learnt in therapy training: different ways of reflecting what you have said, different ways of asking you questio...
Get Ready Player 1
When Satya and I started running a Buddhist temple it felt like we had suddenly progressed to the next level of the game. I can almost see the cut scene, and he...
Stress as the gateway to freedom
A post shared by Kaspalita (@kaspalita) on Apr 21, 2019 at 10:17am PDT At 8.15am the new puppy had just gone to sleep. She’d been up since 6:30am, and from 8.00...
Goal-less therapy ~ goal-less life
We’ve just adopted new puppy. She’s been home for nine days and when she first arrived she spent her time either being completely awake and very lively, or comp...