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The Mental Health Toolbox Podcast

Dec 31, 2019

#04: In this episode, I cover:

  • Techniques for changing unhealthy thoughts into useful ones
  • How to increase you helpful thoughts
  • Identifying your healthy thoughts
  • Balancing thoughts with “yes, but” statements.
  • Planning for a worry/problem solving time.

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Nov 26, 2019

#03: In this episode, I cover:

  • Talking back to your unhealthy thoughts
  • Exploring the evidence
  • Exchanging distorted thoughts with helpful ones
  • The CBT mantra: “Catch it, Check it, Change it.”

As mentioned in the previous episode, it is vital that we learn the habit of of being mindful to the nature of our thoughts...


Nov 5, 2019

#02: In this episode I cover some of the most common unhealthy thinking pattens and how to examine, challenge and replace them with more relevant and accurate thoughts true to their context, versus those that are pulled from a reference of past lived experience, such as a traumatic event.

I cover:

  • How to identify your...


Nov 3, 2019

In this episode, I start off in discussing the first of twelve fundamental skills in Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for managing mood symptoms.

In this episode, I cover:

  • The connection between thoughts and emotions.
  • What a thought is, and what it is not.
  • How to distinguish between unhealthy and healthy thoughts.

This...


Nov 3, 2019

Learn skills for improving your mood, managing depression, anxiety and relationships and techniques for improving clinical interventions.

Whichever side of the desk you are on, consumer or clinician, it is my aim to serve you.

This is the introductory episode, where I discuss my personal and professional background and...