Begin Your Inner Journey…
How we feel on the inside affects and colors what we experience in the world around us. We may not have much control over life’s inevitable ups and downs, but I believe we can do a lot about how we...
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Focusing, Eugene Gendlin, Ph.D., Bantam Books, 1981 Focusing-Oriented Psychotherapy: A Manual of the Experiential Method, Eugene Gendlin, The Guildford Press, 1996. The Radical Acceptance of...
View ArticleTherapy by Skype
You can now do focusing oriented therapy sessions from the comfort of your home. Leslie Ellis now offers sessions via phone or Skype, an environmentally-friendly alternative to meeting in person. While...
View ArticleDepression…What You Can Do About It (plenty)
Depression is a frustrating illness because it doesn’t always get better by itself. In fact, the symptoms that come with depression, such as low self esteem and lack of energy or motivation, are the...
View ArticleDreamwork
Why do we dream? Theories abound, but no one is sure. We do know that everybody dreams, even animals, and that if we are deprived of the REM sleep we need for dreaming, we fare very poorly. (Rats...
View ArticleWomen and Depression
For ten years, Gina suffered in silence with an illness that affects one in four women during the course of a lifetime. The illness affected her eating and sleeping habits, her ability to concentrate,...
View ArticleFocusing: A way to deepen experiencing for more effective psychotherapy
In the mid 1960s, a philosophy student named Eugene Gendlin started asking some hard questions about the process of psychotherapy: “Why doesn’t therapy succeed more often?… When it does succeed, what...
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A new understanding of grieving
(This article by Leslie Ellis appeared in a recent issue of Insights into Clinical Counselling) Although the classic stages of grieving delineated by Elisabeth Kubler-Ross over 40 years ago are well...
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Inspiring stories of transformation through Focusing
I was just gathering material for the upcoming Advanced Focusing Course participants, a course that will focus on how to support real and lasting change within our clients. The personal stories from...
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Befriend Yourself: Tame your inner critic
Are you your own best friend… or your own worst enemy? Think about it for a minute before you answer. Take your inner temperature. Is it warm and comfortable in there — or are you greeted by thoughts...
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