Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development Podcast by Daryl Chow, Ph.D.

What do I do!? Frontiers Friday #154

September 29, 2023 09:11 - 16 minutes - 15.3 MB

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 o...

How to Develop a Reading Practice. Frontiers Friday #148

August 18, 2023 04:58 - 19 minutes - 13.6 MB

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", whic...

21. Listen for Changes in Wellbeing (Therapy Tip of the Week #8)

October 14, 2022 07:53 - 5 minutes - 6.84 MB

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 B...

20. How to Use Measures Less Like an Assessment Tool, and More as a Conversational Tool (Therapy Tip of the Week #7)

September 30, 2022 04:22 - 5 minutes - 6.08 MB

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 E...

19. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback Therapy Tip of the Week #6

September 23, 2022 06:25 - 5 minutes - 6.35 MB

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 cha...

19. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback Therapy Tip of the Week #6

September 23, 2022 06:25 - 5 minutes - 10.2 MB

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 cha...

#18. Structure and Impact in The Therapy Session

September 16, 2022 08:31 - 10 minutes - 9.18 MB

"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 thi...

#17. Seek to be Disconfirmed (Therapy Tip of the Week #5)

September 09, 2022 07:48 - 5 minutes - 3.91 MB

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 identifiabl...

#16. The Working Alliance: The Devil is the Details Between Sessions (Therapy Tip of the Week #4)

September 02, 2022 09:03 - 6 minutes - 6 MB

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 clinic...

#15. Embodied Cognition (Therapy Tip of the Week)

August 26, 2022 03:39 - 8 minutes - 10.5 MB

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 e...

#14. Therapy Tip of the Week: Seasons Intelligence

August 12, 2022 06:52 - 5 minutes - 6.12 MB

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)...

#13. Therapy Tip of the Week: 5 Basic Needs

August 12, 2022 05:45 - 8 minutes - 9.8 MB

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 ...

#12. What does "Reigniting Clinical Supervision" Actually Look Like?

January 30, 2022 06:01 - 13 minutes - 9.46 MB

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 Perf...

#11. The Edges and Leverages on Using Deliberate Practice Keynote Address

December 21, 2021 07:41 - 37 minutes - 25.7 MB

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 impl...

#10. The Wisdom Pattern of Scott Miller

October 07, 2021 10:22 - 1 hour - 57.7 MB

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) Pi...

#9. A Hidden Discipline That Will Extend Your Mind

June 02, 2021 15:42 - 16 minutes - 18.4 MB

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...

#8. There's a Really Good Reason Why We Need Adjustable Seats

May 11, 2021 10:42 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MB

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 bo...

#7. A Tribute to K. Anders Ericsson

June 24, 2020 09:59 - 25 minutes - 22.9 MB

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 -...

#6. All Things Shall Pass

March 27, 2020 08:50 - 12 minutes - 11.5 MB

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 b...

#5. When Performing Impedes Learning

March 18, 2020 13:55 - 10 minutes - 7.47 MB

"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 lea...

#4. The Dyson Vacuum Cleaner and Making Progress Visible

March 03, 2020 08:09 - 23 minutes - 22 MB

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 Jame...

#3. The Inevitable in Psychotherapy

February 12, 2020 09:47 - 46 minutes - 42.4 MB

"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 ...

#2. Kindling the Flame (Frontiers Radio Podcast)

December 15, 2019 23:19 - 14 minutes - 13.7 MB

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. I...

#1. Introduction to Frontiers Radio by Daryl Chow, Ph.D.

December 11, 2019 03:26 - 1 minute - 1.98 MB

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, aes...

Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development Podcast by Daryl Chow, Ph.D.

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