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Daryl is the author of a highly recommended book The First Kiss: Undoing the Intake Model, as well as a co-author of several books, e.g., Better Results, Creating Impact, and The Write to Recovery. The latest book is The Field Guide to Better Results.

Since 2018, I have a series of online training that has been specifically designed to solve specific challenges therapists and clinical supervisors face in their practice. See darylchow.com/courses

I’ve been running Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD) since 2014, a blog to help therapists to be “at the bleeding edge of development, reaping benefit for our clients.”

Frontiers Friday (FF) goes out once a week, with 5 handpicked, highly relevant recommendations to spark your clinical practice and development.

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1. Nothing is expected out of you.

2. I hope you receive it.

3. I hope this animates and transforms you.

4. I hope you spread the love to others.
   

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About Me

I’m a Singaporean born Chinese, currently in Australia (this explains why my accent is kinda messed up). On board this Aussie ship are the women in my life, my wife and two girls.

I am in clinical practice, and provide coaching/clinical supervision, trainings and talks. On occasions, I get involved in clinical research (I try to put them up on Research Gate as far as possible). I’m not housed in any halls of academia, which means I’m not paid (nor tenured) to do any publications.

On the Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development Menu

Here is the grand-plan.

Frontiers Friday #138. Maps of Knowledge 🗺️ ⭕️

June 9, 2023

If someone needs directions, don't give them a globe. It'll merely waste their time. But if someone needs to understand the way things are, don't give them a map. They don't need directions, they need to see the big picture. ~ Seth Godin. I want to provide you some directions on how you can develop as a psychotherapist.

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Here’s a menu of past meals being served each Friday: 

• Devotion to the Craft (6 Parts)

• Caring for People in Organisations (3 Parts)

• Clinical Supervision (3 Parts)

• Feedback Informed Treatment (4 Parts)

• Unintended Consequences (2 Parts)

• Deep Learner (4 Parts)

• Going Further with Deep Learner and The Use of Obsidian (6 Parts)

• See What You Hear, Hear What You See (4 Parts)

• Trauma (3 Parts)

• Deliberate Practice (5 Parts)

• Empathy (6 Parts)

• Therapist Effects (2 Parts)

• On Grief (4 Parts)

• Client Point of View (4 Parts)

• Tech Tools for Therapists (4 Parts)

• Emotions (6 Parts)

• Sensitivity (3 Parts)

• Alliance (6 Parts)

• Existence (6 Parts)

• Play (4 Parts)

• Humour (4 Parts)

• Understanding and Reducing Dropouts (3 Parts)

• Structuring Therapy Sessions (5 Parts)

• Common Factors and the Controversy (3 Parts)

• ADHD (6 Parts)

• Parenting (6 Parts)

• Words Worth Contemplating (3 Parts)

• The Unspeakable in Therapy (3 Parts)
  

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Feel free to also check out the back catalogue of Frontiers of Psychotherapists Development (FPD) outside of Substack. You might like to go into specific topics in the FPD Archives like

• Clinical Supervision

• Deliberate Practice

• Feedback Informed Treatment

• First Principles

• First Sessions

• Personalised Learning

• Podcast

• Reimagining Education in Psychotherapy

• Self-care

• Therapy Tips of the Week Video Series

For more about Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development, check out the website.

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