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	<title>The Toolbox at LisaKiftTherapy.com &#187; Notes from a Therapist&#8217;s Chair &#8211; The Therapy and Counseling Blog</title>
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	<description>Tools for Marriage, Relationship and Emotional Health.  Articles, tips, advice.</description>
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		<title>Does Premarital Counseling Work?  A Recent Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 21:28:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to Amanda Verzello of Brigham Young University who brought a resent study done there to my attention;  on the effectiveness of premarital education.  The conclusion they came to is a mixed bag &#8211; &#8220;yes,&#8221; for improving communication and &#8220;no&#8221; for improvement in relationship quality or satisfaction. 
They point out that the reason why there may be no [...]


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		<title>The Therapist Consultation Room: Rigidity vs Chaos and Mindfulness</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was another fantastic therapist peer consultation group yesterday led by Linda Graham, MFT.  To be held in such emotional safety and security amongst this small group of women is an experience I am truly grateful for - as well for the wealth of knowledge and insight that pours out of Linda, a woman passionate [...]


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		<title>AAAPDP on Psychotherapy, Trauma and Borderline Personality Disorder</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 29 May 2010 14:43:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently attended the AAAPDP (American Academy of Psychoanalytic and Dynamic Psychiatry) annual meeting in New Orleans as a guest of my father who was also to present a paper.  Being the only MFT amongst psychiatrists who are psychodynamically trained was fascinating to observe on a number of levels. 
One thing that was interesting was to watch this group [...]


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		<title>In a Sea of Marriage and Relationship Advice</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 May 2010 22:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I feel like a tiny buoy bobbing up and down in a sea of marriage and relationship advice.  I love that there are so many wonderful resources out there &#8211; by trained professionals (therapists, counselors, psychologists, some coaches) who know a think or two about marriage / relationship dynamics.  I&#8217;m less concerned about becoming smaller in the ocean as [...]


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		<title>The Therapist Consultation Room: Adaptations to Stress and Rewiring the Brain</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Apr 2010 05:00:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We started by checking in &#8211; as we always do.  I&#8217;m enjoying the level of safety that has been created by us five women in this group.  Several have some very intense personal things going on and it&#8217;s clear we all feel emotionally held and secure with each other.  We reviewed the assigned chapters from [...]


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		<title>Therapists:  A Couples Therapy Conundrum</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Mar 2010 00:06:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;d love to get some dialogue going from therapists around the following:
How do you proceed with a couple who presents to counseling and one person&#8217;s goal is to rebuild the relationship &#8211; and the other is to get out the most smoothly?  Both parties are rigidly set on their own goals &#8211; and both look [...]


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		<title>The Therapist Consultation Room: Parent-Child Pairs, Mirror Neurons and Embracing Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:09:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[After checking in, we discussed our reading assignment, chapters 6-8 in Being a Brainwise Therapist by Bonnie Badenoch.  We covered a bit about how we therapists can call upon the inner community &#8211; in particular the internalization of parent-child pairs (neuroscience showing us how this works through the resonance circuits that link us with one another) as [...]


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		<title>A Story of Article Writing, the Other Side of Being &#8220;Out There&#8221; and Relationship Repair</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Feb 2010 01:41:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had a really interesting experience recently. 
I&#8217;ve been &#8220;out there&#8221; online for a number of years, doing my &#8220;thing,&#8221; writing articles and workbooks, participating in social networking &#8211; alongside my private practice.  I love all of it &#8211; it has been a wonderful symbiotic experience.  I&#8217;ve typically written about ways to improve marriages, relationships and [...]


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		<title>The Therapist Consultation Room: Empathic Failure, Adult Attachment Styles and Toxic Shame</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 22:54:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Three of the four in our group had attended Daniel Siegel&#8217;s &#8220;Mindsight&#8221; Workshop on Friday and were brimming with enthusiasm around some of the things we heard.  This session we spent a good deal of time processing some of our own personal dilemmas and struggles but we did touch on a few neuroscience nuggets of [...]


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		<title>Psychotherapy, Neuroscience, Attachment and Mindsight</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 30 Jan 2010 05:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lisa Brookes Kift, MFT</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following on the heels of my recent quest to become informed on the topic of neuroscience, attachment and relationships as it relates to my psychotherapy work, I went to a workshop today led by Dan Siegel, MD, on his latest book, Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation.  I left even more enthusiastic and thrilled to be a [...]


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