“my goal is to kind of actually convey some of the joys of single session work and maybe deal with some of the queries that your colleagues might have about doing that work in terms of not only the professional aspects to it, but also some of the financial aspects”
In this conversation, Coaching Uncaged host, Yannick Jacob, talks with Windy Dryden, author and editor of over 260 books on coaching and therapy sharing his passion for single sessions.
Together they explore:
The premise that commitment is about long term contracts
The pressure for the coach has to deliver
Single session coaching as the beginning not the end of something
Removing the tension that comes from the imperative to deliver
Single session as a potential door into longer term work
Single sessions as potential awakenings
Whether multi-session contracts become a self-fulfilling prophecy
Ending single-sessions and action plans
Whether single-session work is better fitted for CBT/CBC approaches rather than person-centred
Who is suitable for single session coaching and how to find out
Providing free sessions versus paid single-session coaching
Managing time when a client starts to just unload and talk
Importance of contracting for the single-session
The use of pre-session questionnaires
Dealing with complexity in single-sessions
The distinction between coaching and therapy
The power of limited time in creating movement
And much more
About Windy Dryden
Windy Dryden is one of the leading practitioners and trainers in the UK in the Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) tradition of psychotherapy and in Single-Session Therapy (SST).
He is best known for his work in Rational Emotive Behaviour Therapy (REBT), a leading CBT approach. He has been working in the field of counselling and psychotherapy since 1975 and was one of the first people in Britain to be trained in CBT.
He has published over 240 books and has trained therapists all over the world, in as diverse places as the UK, North and South America, India, Europe, the Middle East and South Africa.
He is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths University of London.
