Working with Aphantasia in Psychotherapy - Adapting Imagery-Based Interventions for Clients Who Cannot Visualize

The most effective therapists in the room are often doing something that is hard to name. This Tiny Training makes it nameable. The Therapist's Bag of Tricks covers the invisible session engine: timing, pacing, therapeutic interruption, deepening moves, and the micro-decisions that create the conditions for clinical change without relying on technique delivery alone.

The visible work of therapy is possible only because of an enormous amount of invisible activity running underneath it. This volume covers the parallel cognitive track that experienced clinicians run alongside relational presence: building and revising formulation hypotheses in real time, reading clinical data across verbal and nonverbal channels, holding uncertainty without losing direction, and making the micro-decisions that turn information into intervention.

When therapy stalls, the easy explanation is motivation. The more accurate explanation is usually something else: a protective structure, an identity anchor, a pattern that is doing exactly what it was designed to do. This volume maps five distinct mechanisms that each produce the presenting picture of a stuck client, covering individual presentations across the lifespan, adolescent stuckness, and systemic stuckness in couples and family contexts.

What if everything you have ever wondered about gender, attraction, and identity could be explored like a map? Adventuring Across the Atlas of Us takes older teens — and anyone still finding their place — on a guided tour of a world where gender is geography, attraction is a tradition you are born into rather than one you choose, and no one else gets to decide where you are from. Warm, plain-spoken, and never preachy, it turns big ideas into a journey you can hold in your hands — through sister countries and border towns, a sovereign Two-Spirit nation, an archipelago all about bodies, and a frontier where the words that do not exist yet are still being invented. It ends where it began: lead with love.

A company of travellers boards a bus and sets out across a world where gender is geography and attraction is a tradition you are born into rather than one you choose. The stage adaptation of Adventuring Across the Atlas of Us is a warm, plain-spoken journey for older teens and general audiences — a long one-act for a cast of twelve, with minimal touring-friendly staging and a real-history timeline appendix companies may reproduce in the program. It travels through sister countries, a sovereign Two-Spirit nation, an archipelago about bodies, and a frontier where new words are still being invented, and it ends where it begins: lead with love.

Executive functioning deficits explain a significant proportion of the clinical presentations that therapists describe as 'can't follow through,' 'won't do homework,' or 'knows what to do but doesn't do it.' This volume covers the executive skill domains relevant to therapy, how to assess without pathologizing, and how to adapt goal-setting, homework design, psychoeducation, and session structure for clients whose planning, initiation, or working memory is genuinely impaired.

Decades of research in developmental neuroscience, stress physiology, and affective neuroscience have produced a body of clinical evidence too significant to treat as peripheral. This volume covers the biological foundations of behaviour that every practising therapist needs — including how the stress response system shapes presenting problems, how early developmental experience gets encoded biologically, and what neuroscience actually tells us about psychological change.

Language is the therapist's primary clinical instrument, and yet clinical training rarely examines it directly. This volume covers the language choices that open versus foreclose, that regulate versus dysregulate, that build alliance versus distance, and that make otherwise correct interventions land or miss. It addresses clinical vocabulary, hedging language, normalizing language, language pacing, and how to tailor word choice to the client's cognitive and emotional state.

Transference and countertransference show up differently depending on your modality, your client's attachment history, and what the therapeutic relationship is being used for. This volume covers how to read the relational dynamics of sessions, distinguish clinical instinct from projection, use the therapeutic relationship as diagnostic information, and decide when what is happening between you and your client is telling you something important about the presenting problem.

When interoception fails, we often do not notice at first — we keep offering body scans, breathing exercises, and somatic techniques to clients whose internal reporting system is either very quiet or so loud it has become unreadable noise. Volume 1 covers the foundational clinical science of interoception, how to recognize impaired interoceptive capacity, and how to adapt body-based therapeutic approaches accordingly.

Some clients go quiet exactly where the work should deepen. Others sit openly torn between wanting change and dreading it, or agree with everything in the room and change nothing outside it. Silence, ambivalence, and stalled engagement look alike on the surface, but each asks for a different response, and treating them as one thing is the most common clinical error. This concise, practice-ready guide gives therapists a differential framework for telling them apart, reading the client's nervous system, and responding in ways that lower resistance instead of rupturing the alliance.

"What do all the kids at the skate park know about courage, failure, and getting back up that most of us spend our entire lives trying to figure out?

Skate Therapy is a framework, a metaphor, and a practice — three things at once — for using skateboarding's embodied philosophy in clinical and educational work. Drawing on exposure work, narrative therapy, somatic approaches, cognitive-behavioral methods, polyvagal theory, attachment theory, and the research on play, mastery, and identity, this book takes seriously what skate culture has been teaching its kids implicitly for sixty years: that fear is information, that the ground is safety, that you act before you feel ready, that the basics are the destination, and that you do not regulate yourself — you regulate yourself through other people.

Each chapter pairs a principle from skate culture with the therapeutic concept that lives underneath it, grounded in research and in the lived practice of two composite teenagers — Adam, who cannot drop in, and Quinn, who cannot fill out the scholarship application — who teach each other across a single summer what an entire field has been trying to articulate for a century.

For clinicians, parents, teachers, coaches, and anyone who has ever been stuck at the top of their own bowl. The work is already happening. Everything you need is already under the wheels of your board.

Here, you try again."

Most kids don't need to be told to try harder. They need to be shown how to fail without it becoming the whole story.

Grit on a Board is a twelve-lesson resilience workshop for children ages 7–12, built on what the skate park already knows about falling, getting up, and going again. Designed for camp counsellors, teachers, youth workers, and clinicians alike, it pairs a practical curriculum with a facilitator’s companion explaining the psychology underneath every lesson.

"Tiny Bites, Big Feelings: A Caregiver's guide to Navigating ARFID

You have probably been told to try harder. To offer more variety. To not make it a big deal. You have probably also watched those strategies make everything worse.

This book was written for you.

Supporting Your Child with ARFID is a comprehensive guide for parents and caregivers navigating avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder — written by a registered psychotherapist who is also an ARFID parent. That combination matters. The clinical knowledge in these pages is grounded in the real experience of sitting at a table where every meal is a negotiation, every birthday party is a logistical challenge, and every well-meaning family member is a variable you can't control.

This guide covers: what ARFID actually is and how to explain it to others; why common approaches fail and what works instead; how to navigate schools, medical providers, and clinical teams; how to protect family relationships, partnerships, and siblings; practical meal strategies that reduce pressure without increasing rigidity; how to support your child's autonomy and self-advocacy; and how to take care of yourself while caring for a child with complex needs.

This book does not promise a cure. It does not offer a meal plan or a trick to get your child to eat more. What it offers is understanding — a clear explanation of what is happening in your child's nervous system and how to respond to it in a way that builds safety rather than resistance.

You are not failing. You are navigating something genuinely hard. This book walks with you."

Graduate training provides exposure to theoretical frameworks and practice in specific modalities. It rarely provides a framework for thinking about integration. This volume covers the principles of intentional eclecticism, how to evaluate whether your combination of approaches is coherent or merely familiar, how to build an integration rationale, and how to move between modalities without losing theoretical clarity.

Every therapist brings a self into the room. The question is not whether that self is present — it always is — but whether you know enough about it to choose what to do with it. Drawing from real supervision group conversations, this volume covers trigger identification, countertransference as clinical data, deliberate use of personal experience, scope-of-practice as self-protection, and what genuine self-care looks like for working clinicians. Honest, grounded, and supervision-informed throughout.