Unlocking Potential: How COGMED Transforms Focus, Memory, and Daily Life

COGMED at Treatment Works

Imagine waking up each day feeling overwhelmed—your child struggles to focus on schoolwork, deadlines slip through your fingers, or simple tasks feel like climbing a mountain. You’ve tried reminders, routines, and sheer willpower, but the frustration persists. If this resonates with you, you’re not alone. Challenges with attention and working memory touch countless lives, from […]

Why Psychologists Should Attend IPA Training at Therapy Works

Why psychologists should attend IPA training

As a leading proponent of the interactional approach and the training of Interactional Pattern Analysis (IPA), I’ve seen firsthand how this approach can transform therapeutic practice. Therapy Works is hosting dedicated training sessions to equip psychologists with a deeper understanding of client interactional dynamics and how to leverage this insight for more effective interventions. 1. Understanding […]

Toward an Integrative Approach: Refiguring Essential Developments In Family Therapy

Family Therapy

To cite this article: Warwick D. Phipps (2019) Toward an Integrative Approach: Refiguring Essential Developments in Family Therapy, Journal of Family Psychotherapy, 30:2, 116-140, DOI: 10.1080/08975353.2019.1601447 To link to this article: https://doi.org/10.1080/08975353.2019.1601447 ABSTRACT It is highlighted that the application of general system theory (GST) – including the developments from the intrapsychic to interpsychic and the […]

Utilization of Hypnosis: Refiguring the Practice of Multidisciplinary Health Care

The aim of this study was to investigate the full circle prohibition and repeal, in South Africa, from 1997 to 2007, of the utilization of hypnosis by any person not in the profession of psychology (i.e., psychotherapy), to identify the causes thereof to prevent its deleterious reoccurrence globally, and to clarify the potential utilization of […]

Five Signs of Hypnosis

Five Signs of Hypnosis

One of the quintessential questions in the field of hypnotherapy is “How do you know when a client is hypnotised or has entered the trance state?” At first glance, the answer to this question
may seem rather obvious: “Just ask the client!” The difficulty, though, is that the client’s subjective experience of hypnosis is not necessarily consistent with the behaviour he or she displays.