For the 100th and final episode The Australia Counselling Podcast, we invited psychotherapist Bill O’Hanlon back, who had one of the most downloaded episodes of all 100 episodes. Bill’s solution-oriented approach is a powerful approach to working with clients that can help discover their own abilities and dissolve their resistance to change. In this interview Bill discusses: how…
The Australia Counselling Podcast has come a long way since I published the first podcast on September 8, 2013. In just over 2 years the podcast has been downloaded over 63,000 times and listened to in 98 countries across the world. So for episode 99 I decided to go back through the archives and see which…
Have you ever wondered why someone chooses one therapist over another when searching online? Believe it or not, there’s a whole psychology behind choosing a therapist online. And when it comes to online counselling directories, visitors often have hundreds of therapists to choose from. So we spoke with Vancouver-based marketing coach and copywriter Juliet Austin…
Have you ever had the experience of doing great work with a client, but then for some reason progress stalls? You’ve reached a therapeutic impasse and no matter which direction you go, you can’t seem to make headway. It’s not uncommon for clients to get stuck in therapy, but the key is knowing what to…
Gestalt therapy is an effective and powerful relational therapy that helps clients raise their awareness about how they are in the world so they can self-regulate and move towards health. Gestalt therapy is also synonymous with the ’empty chair’ technique made famous by Fritz Perls, the founder of Gestalt therapy. However Gestalt therapy is much more…
As a therapist in private practice, you’re probably not excited when it comes time to do your bookkeeping and accounting. You came into this field because you love working with clients and changing people’s lives and likely don’t have a background in finance or economics. However, if you don’t stay on top of your numbers, your…
Website design is one of those fields that is in constant flux. What was cool and cutting edge in design two years ago is now obsolete and out of fashion. And when it comes to websites for therapists, it’s critical your website reflects current trends so your professional face to the world looks up-to-date and…
Psychotherapy and counselling in the United States is vastly different from Australia in terms of the culture and the development of the industry as a whole. Yet there are many valuable lessons Australian therapists can take from U.S. therapists in how to build a successful private practice. So we spoke to an Australian therapist Roby…
Most psychotherapists today will agree it’s essential to include the client’s body in the therapeutic process for therapy to be effective. The mind-body connection has been reinforced by emerging research over the last decade, which shows the mind and body are inseparable when it comes to how we operate as human beings. Hakomi therapy, which…
Online therapy refers to a wide range of therapy services that are provided by therapists to clients that are sometimes thousands of kilometers apart, thanks to the power of the Internet. But online therapy is a potential minefield with lots of ethical issues that can arise with practitioners that are providing online therapy without specific training or knowledge…