This podcast is the narrated version of my article <a href="/blog/how-to-stop-your-clients-vicious-circle-of-worry/">3 Interventions for Treating Anxiety</a>.
Sometimes a large part of anxiety therapy is helping your client overcome the ‘feeling like a freak’ effect caused by too much self consciousness. Self consciousness can present a paradox for therapists in that the client needs to make less effort rather than more in order to overcome it.
In this episode I talk about:
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<li>The vicious circle effect of worrying about worrying</li>
<li>How to normalize client problems without minimizing them</li>
<li>Ways to reframe problems by putting them in context and so make them less &#8216;weird&#8217;</li>
<li>Why identifying the function of the problem can be profoundly therapeutic</li>
</ul>
Or watch this episode of the podcast on video below:
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Treating OCD with Hypnosis: Podcast 023

Mark Tyrrell is a therapist and trainer, and co-founder of Uncommon Knowledge.

His interest in psychological treatment began in the late 1980s while working in a secure psychiatric hospital. He has worked as a therapist and trainer since 1995, specialising in brief, solution focused therapy.

His approach focuses on what actually works in the therapy room, rather than theory for its own sake.

In this podcast, Mark shares practical insights, techniques, and perspectives drawn from real therapeutic experience, designed for therapists, counsellors and anyone interested in effective psychological change.