Making Change Sustainable: The Right Tool at the Right Time by Regina Sewell, PhD, LMHC, PAT As counselors, we know the importance of using the right tool for the job. Our clients often come to us because they’ve been using … Continue reading →
Stages of Change in Action Regina Sewell Phd, LMHC, PCC, PAT Hudson Valley Psychodrama Institute and SUNY New Paltz Change is a process. In order to help clients make the life changes they need to make, we need to be … Continue reading →
Motivational Interviewing in Action by Regina Sewell, PhD, LMHC, PCC, PAT If you work with clients who use marijuana or other substances on a regular basis, the following exchange using Motivational Interviewing might sound familiar: Client: “It’s weird. I really … Continue reading →
Recovery in Action: Experiential Methods to Help Clients Stay Sober by Regina Sewell Ph.D/MEd, LMHC, PCC, CP Many of our clients have worked on mustering up the courage or the will to get sober. These are important steps. But the … Continue reading →
Action Methods for Healing Eating Disorders – Why Experiential Methods Work by Linda Ciotola, M.Ed., TEP For those suffering with eating disorders such as anorexia, bulimia, binge-eating disorder, compulsive over-eating, and food addictions putting these struggles into action externalizes them … Continue reading →
Psychodrama and the treatment of bulimia By Monica Leonie Callahan Since 1981, I have been exploring ways of using psychodrama as part of individual and group psychotherapy with bulimics in an outpatient setting. Almost all of my clients are women; … Continue reading →
Motivational Interviewing in Action: How Action Methods Cut Through Clients’ Defenses and Ambivalence by Regina Sewell, Ph.D., LMHC, CP and Rebecca Walters, LMHC, LCAT, TEP “Motivational interviewing is a directive, client-centered counseling style for eliciting behavior change by helping clients to … Continue reading →
Psychodrama and Resistance Part 1 by Rebecca Walters, LCAT, LMHC, TEP What words do you use to describe your most difficult and resistant clients or groups? Sarcastic, demeaning, stubborn, obstinate, aggressive, uninvolved, defensive, sleepy, passive, etc. . . . you … Continue reading →
Creating Sustainable Change by Regina Sewell, Ph.D., LMHC and Rebecca Walters, LCAT, LMHC, TEP *Note: All names have been changed to protect privacy. Clients often come to treatment because other people feel that they need to change and/or because external … Continue reading →
Motivational Interviewing in Action: Examples from the Field by Regina Sewell, PhD, LMHC & Jennifer Salimbene, LCSW-R, CASAC, CDAC, TEP *Note: Names have been changed in order to ensure privacy Motivational Interviewing, developed by Rollnick and Miller (1991), is a directive … Continue reading →
