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This is a podcast version of a previous Substack post. If you like to read the article instead, click here: Clinical Experience Matters, Yet It Doesn't Transfer You an also watch a video version of this: https://youtu.be/0-PtizeTVa4 Timestamps:00:00 Introduction – Does clinical experience improve outcomes?00:46 Goldberg's study: outcomes decline with experience01:27 The new 2026 Saadet Zumbul and Dennis Kivlighan study02:25 Between-person vs. within-person analysis04:35 How Zumbul and Kivlighan's measured "experience" differently07:42 Key findings09:01 Why these findings differ from prior research10:53 The critical finding: experience didn't transfer between clients15:57 Haskell's Training vs. Education17:11 Coaching for performance vs. coaching for development19:43 Haskell's six levels of transfer of learning25:41 The Myth of Experience26:19 Wicked vs. Kind Learning Environments28:43 What the researchers concluded30:51 Upcoming workshop in Perth, 26-27 Nov 2026 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

How do we organise ourselves within the therapy hour, so that we can create an impactful session for our client? In this podcast episode, we take a leaf from Module 8 of the Structure and Impact Course. If you are seeking to better structure your therapy sessions beyond the confines of specific therapy models, this online course is for you. The new cohort of ​Structure and Impact​ is now open for registration. Start Date: 27th of Apr 26, Monday.Closing Date: 24th of April 2026. Format: 1 new in-depth section for four weeks. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/structure The course is designed to be a combination of learning with a community + self-paced, along with a life-time access to the entire content, discussion, and updates. As subscribers to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD), you receive a special 10% discount. At checkout, enter the following promo code: FPD10 BONUSES: 1. Full Access to the course on Feedback-Informed Treatment called Measured. 2. Exclusive invite to a live virtual meeting with alumni of Structure and Impact course. Timstamp: [02:07min]: ACT I: How We Begin. The differences between The Meanderer, The Rigid Behaviourist, and the Focused. [11:20min]: ACT II: How We Go Deeper. The differences between The Wanderer, The Overwhelmed, and The Deep Sea Diver. [19:15min]: ACT III: How WE Close. The differences between The Abrupt, The Teacher, and The Resonator [26:18min]: The Shadow Sides of Structure Related: - Seven Common Challenges in Creating Structure - Thinking in Thirds (Parts I, II, III) --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). The aim is to help you grow at your bleeding edge of personal and professional development. Frontiers Friday is released newsletter. Plus, you get to access 10 years of FPD archive at no cost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

Here are the final Parts III to VI of HomeKit that are made freely available to you. HomeKit is the first ‘whisper-in-your-ear’ audio companion to help you get unstuck in sticky situations. The topics covered in this episode are Discipline, Expressing Love, Procrastination, and Stress. Each of the lessons consists of 1. An introduction 2. Three strategies 3. Three rationales --- TIMESTAMPS:[2:50] Discipline The amateurs have goals. And the pros have a system. A system is how discipline looks like. [13:55] Expressing Love "To love without knowing how to love wounds the person we love.” — Thich Nhat Hanh [24:44] Procrastination Procrastination happens when we are facing something important on the outside that elicits anxiety on the inside, beckoning us with the question, 'Can you face your own frontier?' [33:18] Stress "Stress is a perverted relationship with time." -- John O'Donahue --- ONE MORE DAY LEFT to use the special promo 25% off promo code: FULLCIRCLESVIP To sign up for a HomeKit, go to darylchow.com/homekit --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). The aim is to help you grow at your bleeding edge of personal and professional development. Frontiers Friday is released newsletter. Plus you get to access 10 years of FPD archive at no cost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

Here is Part II of HomeKit, the first ‘whisper-in-your-ear’ audio companion to help you get unstuck in sticky situations. The topic today is on Assertiveness. Each of the lessons consists of 1. An introduction 2. Three strategies 3. Three rationales --- Assertiveness Assertiveness is an act of lessening the divide between what’s on the inner and outer-life. Because the life that is inside needs to be heard on the outside. Here’s How: 1. What do I really want? What do I really like? 2. Make sure your Yes on the outside is not a No on the inside. 3. Strength and Warmth. Here’s Why: 1. Assertiveness is a form of Truth-telling. 2. Be divided no more. 3. The real challenge for people who are highly agreeably and compassionate. Listen to the end of the podcast episode for a special promo code. FOUR DAYS LEFT! To sign up for a HomeKit, go to darylchow.com/homekit --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). The aim is to help you grow at your bleeding edge of personal and professional development. Frontiers Friday is released newsletter. Plus you get to access 10 years of FPD archive at no cost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

In the next six podcast episodes, I will give you six of the ‘whisper-in-your-ear’ complete lessons from HomeKit, the first audio kit to help you get unstuck in sticky situations. Here are the six topics: 1. Anxiety 2. Assertiveness 3. Discipline 4. Expressing Love 5. Procrastination 6. Stress Each of the lessons consists of I. An introduction II. Three strategies III. Three rationales --- Today, we will start with Anxiety. Anxiety What is anxiety? Anxiety is experiencing failure... in advance. Here’s How: 1. To recompose...back into your body (listen to the experiential exercise in the audio). 2. Convert Anxiety into Fear. 3. Convert your worrying into planning. Here’s Why: 1. To Worry = To ‘Strangulate’. Travelling at the speed of light causes anxiety. Learn to travel at the speed of life. 2. Dealing with anxiety can sometimes feel too vague and nebulous, like catching clouds. By converting it into fear, you name it and have a better chance of healing it. 3. Worries goes in circles; planning goes in an intentional direction.For more on Homekit, go to darylchow.com/homekit --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). The aim is to help you grow at your bleeding edge of personal and professional development. Frontiers Friday is released newsletter. Plus you get to access 10 years of FPD archive at no cost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

Some of the best conversations happen when your clients can hear themselves clearly. This is Part II on Depths of Conversation. See the Part I: We Are Hungry For Depth: The five levels of conversation: 1. Informational 2. Emotional 3. Confessional 4. Experiential 5. Activational Shownotes: - Avoid TBU (True But Useless) Information - Why You Need A Guide to Go Deep - Dropout in Psychotherapy (Part I, II, III) --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). The aim is to help you grow at your bleeding edge of personal and professional development. Frontiers Friday is released newsletter. Plus you get to access 10 years of FPD archive at no cost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

We yearn not just for deeper conversations, but deeper connections. Connections that make us come alive. The five levels of conversation: 1. Informational 2. Emotional 3. Confessional 4. Experiential 5. Activational Shownotes: - Main Full Circles essay: https://fullcircles.substack.com/p/depth - Information is Not Transformation - Listening into Speech: Will Say, Won't Say, Can't Say. - PostSecret - A Class Divided Documentary - Invisible Wounds --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). The aim is to help you grow at your bleeding edge of personal and professional development. Frontiers Friday is released newsletter. Plus you get to access 10 years of FPD archive at no cost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

Today’s episode is dedicated to two readers of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD): Austin Sparks and Ash Burton. I answer both Austin’s and Ash’s question on working with more than just the individual youth in therapy. I address the challenge and merits, along with six guiding principles, and six strategies that I take. Guiding Principles 1. Give Voice to the Voice-less 2. Listening to Each Other into Speech 3. Being a With-ness to Each Other 4. We are a Community of Internalised Others 5. When We Love, We Love Poorly Strategies 1. Structure is “Where are we? were are we going? and why? 2. Mixing Individual and Conjoint Sessions 3. Allow Contradictory Perspectives 4. Express the Unspokens 5. How Healthy is the Family? 6. Practice of forgiveness SHOWNOTES: 1. 10 Years of Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). Frontiers Friday #189 2. Listening Into Speech: Will Say, Won’t Say, Can’t Say. Quotes: Understanding is love’s other name. If you don’t understand, you can’t love. — Thich Nhat Hanh, in How to Love. Forgiveness is the name of love practice among people who love poorly. The hard truth is that all people love poorly. — Henri Nouwen. --- Subscribe to Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD). The aim is to help you grow at your bleeding edge of personal and professional development. Frontiers Friday is released newsletter. Plus you get to access 10 years of the archive at no cost. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

This is about the Difficult Conversations in Therapy (DCT) study that has just recently been released. I talked about1. Main findings 2. Surprising findings 3. Uniqueness 4. The Evolution of the DCT Study 5. What I’ve learned from the DCT Project. Main Study: https://www.growkudos.com/publications/10.1037%25252Ftep0000493/reader See https://darylchow.substack.com/p/ff207 for shownotes. This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

A talk recorded at the Association of Counselling Psychologist (ACP) Conference, Oct 2024. Taking aim at doing the right thing, and not just doing things right. Watch the video version to make sense of the references made in this talk: https://youtu.be/Pa-cv9V3_ZM?si=FTSstO9Ex8g-WLgr CHAPTERS: - Intro: (0:00) - Performing vs. Learning (4:20) -Concept Creep ((10:40) - What is Deliberate Practice(11:39) - Profile of Highly Effective Therapists aka Supershrinks (15:45) The Seven Mistakes: 1. DP is Not Clinical Practice (22:55) 2. DP is Not Model Specific (25:36) 3. DP is Not Reflective Practice (32:48) 4. DP is Not Purposeful Practice (36:25) 5. DP is Not About You (38:04) 6. DP Needs Guidance (41:39) 7. DP Should Not Be Mandated (41:13) Closing: My Three Wishes for You (46:49) --- 🎁 Would like to receive 5 wicked recommendations to nourish your professional development each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: 🎯 https://darylchow.substack.com This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

An antidote to dogma. See this Substack post for more: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/ff205 This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

Here’s the video version: https://youtu.be/wcU7ch-MFW0 This is a Q&A video and podcast series based on a question from a therapist in Glasgow, Scotland. I hope this email finds you well. I'm not sure whether this will get to you, but wanted to reach out as I have been feeling in a bit of a crisis with my practice as psychotherapist. And have been reading your book 'First Kiss' To put it bluntly - there is too much choice! I am constantly distracted and preoccupied by the great myriad of trainings, books,  models, etc. And find myself paralysed at times on what to actually do with people. I want to help and be the best I can. I have been excited and intrigued by your writings, and the writing of Dr. Scott Miller as well, and I appreciate that there are factors more important than the therapeutic school/model, but it still leaves me anxious about what do I actually subscribe to in a session, as I can't just do anything/everything, I still need to present a coherent narrative to my clients, and link that to the work we do together. Even integrative or transdiagnostic models (like PBT or Multimodal Therapy) feel overwhelming. And when I look at Deliberate Practice, it seems great, but doesn't answer my overall questions. I wonder, should i just pick a good, well-fitting for me, model, and then work at practicing the best version of that i can? Or whether I am missing something entirely? So I wanted to write in case there was anything you could point me in the direction of reading or doing that could help. Warmest regards Peter Timestamp: 00:00 Intro00:07 Email from a therapist in Scotland03:14 Step 1: What is your belief about how healing takes place?04:31 Step 2: Identify 2-3 approaches that resonnates with you. 06:34 Step 3: Your History of Change07:34 Step 4: Your Clinical History with Clients08:51 Step 5: Develop Your Own Blueprint of How You Conduct Therapy Sessions10:43 Step 6: Capture Weekly Therapy Learnings (WTL)12:29 Step 7: Retrieval Practice13:50 Our Misunderstandings of What "Evidence-Based Practice (EBP)" is.15:24 Invitation to Pose Your Questions For previous podcast episodes, click here. Submission of Questions Questions have the power to bring us together, as questions put us on a quest.I would love to hear from you if you would like your questions to be answered in detail. Drop a comment below or email me at [email protected] Thanks for reading Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Warm Welcome to New Folks on Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD) If you are new here, I just want to say a big hello to you and would love to hear from you. Tell me a bit about you and where you are from. Drop me an email [email protected] Click here to see more resources about Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development and Frontiers Friday. Daryl Chow Ph.D. is the author of The First Kiss, co-author of Better Results, and The Write to Recovery, Creating Impact, and the new book The Field Guide to Better Results . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

Frontiers Radio podcast is back! Here’s the video version: This is a Q&A video based on a question from a therapist in Montreal: "When Do You Get Time to Read?" I just wanted to say once again that I really appreciate your newsletter. I look forward to reading it every week. This week, I especially liked the comment on the importance of giving more attention to the conversational nature of psychotherapy in our training. I also liked the quote at the end, "It takes two to know one", which made me appreciate the importance of supervision and co-development groups to understand our clients better.  I wanted to ask you a more personal question. When do you take time to read? I am asking this because there are so many interesting articles and books that are on my reading list but somehow I barely manage to make the time to read. I have a 2 year-old boy so that makes it a bit trickier too, but you and other therapists have children too. Thank you for your work, it's inspiring.  Admittedly, if you look at the timestamp below, my response stretches a little further than the original question. Timestamp: 00:00 When Do You Get Time to Read? 01:13 The Daily Practical 02:06 Thinking is a monologue; reading is a dialogue 03:32 What Not to Do 05:01 Taking care of our intentions 05:57 Reading strategy 08:08 The 4 Tenets of becoming a Deep Learner 09:41 Developing a Personalised Learning System (PLS) 10:55 The Ignorant Section 11:45 What to Read 14:08 What Format to Read On 16:57 Periods of "No inputs from other minds" 17:33 Summary 18:28 Invitation to your questionsFor previous podcast episodes, click here. Submission of Questions Questions have the power to bring us together, as questions put us on a quest.I would love to hear from you if you would like your questions to be answered in detail. Drop a comment below or email me at [email protected] Thanks for reading Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development. Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Warm Welcome to New Folks on Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development (FPD) If you are new here, I just want to say a big hello to you and would love to hear from you. Tell me a bit about you and where you are from. Drop me an email [email protected] Click here to see more resources about Frontiers of Psychotherapist Development and Frontiers Friday. Daryl Chow Ph.D. is the author of The First Kiss, co-author of Better Results, and The Write to Recovery, Creating Impact, and the new book The Field Guide to Better Results . This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

n this week's tip, I'd talk about how we can specifically listen for changes between sessions, and why measuring a person's wellbeing matters more than a symptom-specific measure. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance and being outcome informed, here are links: Seek to be Disconfirmed The Devil is the Details Between Sessions How to Use Measures Less Like an Assessment Tool... Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 00:47: Listening for Differences Between Sessions 01:02: Limits of Symptom-Specific Measures 02:53: Paying Attention to Changes Outside of Therapy Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. Related Links: Melissa Bond's research on the limitations of the DASS measure and why it was not designed to be used as a routine outcome measure. Podcast episode on The Dyson Vacuum Cleaner and Making Progress Visible   --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ - -- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked handpicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: 🎯 https://darylchow.substack.com Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i- 2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i- 3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v-    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com

In this week's Therapy Tip of the Week #7 (TTW), we talk about how to use outcome monitoring tools, not as an assessment tool, but as a conversational tool. If you have missed the previous videos on how to improve working alliance, here are links: 1. Seek to be Dis-confirmed 2. The Devil is the Details Between Sessions  3. How to Elicit Nuanced Feedback  ⏳ Time Stamps: 00:00: Introduction 00:40: Not Just an Assessment Tool 01:08: Why Measure at Each Session 02:44: A Clinical Example of Conflicting Ratings ➡ Sidenote: There are backfire effects if we use measures purely as an assessment tool. See this: The Tyranny of Metrics. Note: Any personally identifiable information in clinical examples used are changed, in order to protect their confidentiality and privacy. --- 📜 Becoming a Deep Learner: If you value lifelong learning and want to leverage this into your clinical effectiveness as a mental health professional, check out The Deep Learner course. https://darylchowcourses.teachable.com/p/deeplearner/ - -- 🎁 Finally, would like to receive 5 wicked handpicked recommendations each Friday? Subscribe to our Frontiers Friday newsletter: 🎯 https://darylchow.substack.com Here's a sample of past FF newsletters: 1. On Highly Sensitive Persons: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760832_frontiers-friday-101-sensitivity-part-i- 2. On Emotions: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760804_frontiers-friday-95-emotions-part-i- 3. On Deliberate Practice: https://darylchow.substack.com/p/4760599_frontiers-friday-51-deliberate-practice-part-v-  This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit darylchow.substack.com