No Bullshit Therapy clinical guidelines: Practice notes for working with therapy-lovers

This chapter re-states the No Bullshit Therapy (NBT) Clinical Guidelines but focusses on their application to work with therapy-lovers. The practical techniques of signposting to herald a change in the rules of the conversation to prepare a client for a deeper, more challenging, and ultimately, more intimate work is elaborated. The role of Single Session Therapy (SST) is presented, along with the ten core elements of SST illustrated by example therapeutic questions. The combination of SST and NBT provides the practitioner with a powerful set of techniques for their therapeutic toolbox. The three-Hs exercise, which helps practitioners to overcome constraints in their own work, is outlined with examples.