Talking Your Way to Change

Guided imagery exercise of creating a safe place to visit with music. 

This episode is an introduction to visualization exercises of a safe place as well as a guided demonstration of using one. 

This episode is an introduction to visualization exercises of a safe place as well as a guided demonstration of using one. 

Using psychological concepts and a theoretical form of psychotherapy-(Jungian Therapy) offer an opinion or hypotheses about how we might be influenced by our collective unconscious to make our decisions. 

Guided imagery is an easy to use multi-sensory relaxation-based practice that utilizes guided affirmations and soothing music to evoke images in the mind that are experienced by the body.

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This episode discusses how we can respond to our partner's reactivity. Is this conflict a story about the other person, yourself, or your communication patterns in the relationship. 

David Burns The Five Secrets of Effective Communication: the Disarming Technique 

 Terry Real: the Adaptive Child and the Functional Adult 

Radical Acceptance is about accepting life on life's terms. Radical Acceptance is a practice that has it's roots in Buddhism but most propagated by Marsha Linehan's Dialectical Behavioral Therapy in the world of psychotherapy. 

This episode is an interview with Dr. Groninga, who talks about the evidence based treatment Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, which was developed in the late 1980s by psychologist Marsha M Lineham. DBT helps clients who have intense emotions that often lead to self-harm or sabotaging behavior and relationship patterns associated with problems in living. Dr. Groninga works at Minnesota Center for Psychology.

My special guest is Dr. Chris Anderson, owner of Innovative Psychological Consultants, an out-patient mental health clinic providing psychological assessment and testing, psychotherapy, and psychiatry in Maple Grove and serving the surrounding areas. Dr. Anderson has been in practice for 25 years. His passion for chemical dependency and mental health  recovery stems from the belief that and despite people’s fears that they will be judged or that their problems are unique, the reality is that people are people and their problems do not differ nearly as much as they perceive.

Innovative Psychological Consultants, LLC @ 763-416-4137

www.ipc-mn.com