Getting it together

Over several years my web site has grown. It is now too large to absorb easily, I am told.

Therefore, I want to offer a few links under one roof. I will base these links on some Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs), I have been asked over the years. Tell me about the ones you’d like to see included!

Finding out about me, therapy and therapists

Welcome to my web site

What is a nudge?

My acknowledgements

About me

About Dr Christina Mason

Why therapy?

Seeking professional help

Finding things on the internet

Routes to nudging

Here’s a map that might help

My way?

Your way? The My-Nual

Models of Psychology: there are so many that research is difficult. I have touched on just a few and I will continue to add to the list, I am sure.

Transactional Analysis (TA), including:

The Stroke Economy

Injunctions

Drivers and Script

solution-focused therapy

The Karpman Drama Triangle

Client-centred therapies

Models informing therapy

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy

https://your-nudge.com/compassion-focused-therapy-cft/

Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)

Models of the Change Process

A potted history

 

Safe experimentation

Information on safe experimentation

Do you need some change?

Adult-education-is-this-relevant-to-safe-experimenting

How to do safe experiments

Limits on safe experiments

Communicating-with-small-safe-experiments

Safe experiments and trauma

When safe experiments do not work out: relapsing

Safe-experiments for trauma: are they wise?

History-where-do-nudges-or-small-safe-experiments-sit

Categories of safe experiments

Why SMALL safe experiments?

Special Time: one very specific safe experiment

Small and safe experiments: are feelings important?

Exploring what I might do differently

Controlled-breathing-and-relaxation

Controlled-breathing-is-it-that-simple

Affirmation-work

Fogging-and-assertiveness

Life-planning-changing-the-script

Managing-sleep

Safe experiments with time

Communications

More on communication

The Road Map: safe experiments in space and time

Responsibility for safe experiments

Adult Learning and safe experiments

 

How our bodies work

How our bodies tend to respond

Fight-flight-or-freeze

My brain hurts

Polyvagal theory

Controlled breathing

Anger can be OK

Neuroscience

 

Specific psychological issues

Creating your own scenic route

Anxiety and other high emotions

Polyvagal theory: practical implication

Boundary Making and Management

Self-esteem

Dissociation

Defence mechanisms

Narcissism

State Dependent Learning and Behaviour (SDLB)

Locus of Control (LOC)

Script

Life Planning

Life feeling not worthwhile

Injunctions

Physical Contact: what’s right for you, and you.

Can Maslow’s Hierarchy still help with safe experiments?