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# Stanislaw Malicki

Psychotherapy supervision

## Posts

- [Blog](https://malicki.me/blog/)
- [The Multidimensional Model of Change – a new way of structuring psychotherapy](https://malicki.me/the-multidimensional-model-of-change-a-new-way-of-structuring-psychotherapy/) - Multidimensional Model of Change (the MMC) is a meta-theoretical framework for structuring psychotherapy. The Model has been used as a basis for the development of an integrative group treatment for depression, called Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST). The EST has been implemented and successfully run by our team at the Akershus University Hospital, the major Norwegian
- [Introducing Emotional Safeness Therapy for depression and personality problems](https://malicki.me/introducing-emotional-safeness-therapy/) - Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST) is a new integrative treatment for recurrent depression and co-occurring personality problems. The EST has been successfully implemented and run as group therapy over three years (2015-2018) at an outpatient unit of the Akershus University Hospital in Norway. You can read more about the work on the development and implementation of
- [Hope - The Cornerstone of Psychotherapy](https://malicki.me/hope-the-cornerstone-of-psychotherapy/) - Why is instilling hope a critical component in the early stages of therapy? And why is hope a necessary ingredient of any successful treatment?In this blog post, we will explore the importance of hope in psychotherapy, its impact on treatment outcomes, and practical strategies for fostering hope in clients during initial sessions. The Power of
- [How to do a (great) experiential workshop?](https://malicki.me/how-to-do-a-great-experiential-workshop-part-1/) - Practical guidelines on how to prepare and deliver experiential workshops.
- [The Art of Crafting Transformative Psychotherapy Sessions](https://malicki.me/the-timing/) - Therapy is a dynamic journey. It is filled with peaks and valleys, joy and despair. The therapist's responsibility is to navigate this landscape, guiding the client with proper timing, pacing, and language. This creates a transformative, empowering, and meaningful experience for clients. Let us have a closer look at the key elements of the session
- [How Psychotherapists Can Get Inspired by Easter](https://malicki.me/get-inspired-by-easter/) - Easter is time for celebrating new beginning, as it symbolize resurrection and triumph of life over death. This period of renewal and rebirth give unique opportunity for psychotherapists to reflect on themes of transformation and growth in their practice. Although Easter festivities mostly religious in nature, spirit of renewal and hope they have can be
- [Emotion regulation made simple](https://malicki.me/emotion-regulation-made-simple/) - Have you ever watched a "Man versus Machine" science-fiction movie? These movies often portray the contrast between human beings and robots based on emotions. In the movies, machines may have equal or even superior intelligence to humans. What they lack are human feelings. These movies reflect a fundamental truth about the human condition. Our intellect
- [EST Project - Development of Multidimensional Model of Change and Emotional Safeness Therapy](https://malicki.me/est-project-development-of-multidimensional-model-of-change-and-emotional-safeness-therapy/) - The article delves into the organizational origins of the EST Project, which ultimately led to the creation of the Multidimensional Model of Change (MMC) and Emotional Safeness Therapy (EST). Initially conceived as a metatheoretical framework, the Multidimensional Model of Change aimed to integrate various psychotherapeutic approaches into a single, well-structured intervention. This model was utilized
- [The therapist's ten commandments: "First - Do not shame"](https://malicki.me/therapists-ten-commandments-first-not-shame/) - There are various ways of talking about psychological problems. Some of them have a bigger blaming potential than others.
- [Ripples on water - choosing your values](https://malicki.me/rings-on-water-choosing-your-values/) - Values are our beliefs about what's important and what really matters to us. "Rings on water" metaphor may be used in the clarification of personal values.
- [The Painted Bird:  Culture and Stigma](https://malicki.me/the-painted-bird-culture-and-stigma/) - Stigma is one of the major obstacles for effective treatment of mental health problems. The article discusses the role of collectivism in stigmatization.
- [Pursuing therapeutic excellence in ACT through deliberate practice](https://malicki.me/excellence-through-deliberate-practice/) - Besides my usual clinical work, I deliver introductory ACT workshops to many hundred participants each year. I always wonder what happens with these people afterwards. How many of them include ACT in their clinical work on a regular basis? How many of them become real ACT therapists? Some of participants say that they have already
- [Did your supervisor tell you that? On re-learning psychotherapy](https://malicki.me/did-your-supervisor-tell-you-that/) - While delivering workshops I’m often asked to teach exercises and demonstrate protocols. Even participants who have no previous knowledge of the presented approach want to learn some techniques. This interest seems to be quite natural when the audience consists of practitioners. After all, our overarching goal is to serve our clients effectively, and not all
- [On becoming a therapist: choosing your ground](https://malicki.me/on-becoming-a-therapist-choosing-your-ground/) - As I wrote in my previous article, the therapeutic process starts long before the client knocks on our door - it starts when we adopt our professional and therapeutic stance. Therapeutic stance begins to crystalize at early stages of the professional training, but some of its underpinnings might be traced even deeper in our personal
- [How not to learn psychotherapy – a tale from a near-life experience](https://malicki.me/how-not-to-learn-psychotherapy-a-tale-from-a-near-life-experience/) - As some of you probably noticed from my posts on Facebook, I spent the first half of August in the hospital, where I went through two life-saving surgeries. Unfortunately, the second one was caused by a serious medical error committed during the first one. In this way, I was given an opportunity to personally and
- [Therapists on a bus – therapeutic alliance in psychotherapy](https://malicki.me/therapists-on-a-bus-therapeutic-alliance-in-emotional-safeness-therapy/) - Therapeutic alliance is one of the most frequently discussed topics in psychotherapy literature and its importance is broadly acknowledged. But what about the consequences of this acknowledgment? How does the robust evidence of the critical importance of alliance affect what we call evidence based treatment? Therapeutic allegiance In one of my previous posts I mentioned
- [Therapeutic competency no 1: awareness](https://malicki.me/therapeutic-competency-no-1-awareness/) - Have you ever wondered what might be the overarching competency that helps therapists choose whether or not to follow certain rules in therapy? A couple of months ago I delivered a workshop to a group of CBT learners, during which I did a role play as a "therapist". After the event one of the participants
- [Four psychological takeaways from Christmas](https://malicki.me/four-psychological-takeaways-from-christmas/) - As we are approaching Christmas, Christmas is the topic of this post. Christmas is not only a yearly reminder of something that happened long ago, and it is not only a part of a religious tradition. From the psychological point of view, Christmas contains metaphors that are relevant in the context of our current lives.
- [On acceptance of emotions](https://malicki.me/on-acceptance-of-emotions/) - Have you ever heard about acceptance of difficult emotions? The concept became recently quite popular in psychology. However, this coping strategy may easily be misinterpreted. Why do we have bad feelings? Our feelings are not a kind of internal entertainment system from the pre-TV era. They are not here to please us. “Difficult” emotions are
- [How evidence-based is ACT?](https://malicki.me/how-evidence-based-is-act/) - Evidence-based” is a miracle term used in the field of mental health. It opens and closes doors, makes some people rich and others poor. Officially, it’s intended to promote quality of health services and safety of patients. And it works to some extent as it’s meant to. But it’s also used in a very flawed
- [Mental health explained](https://malicki.me/mental-health-explained/) - Some time ago mental health was viewed as lack of a mental disorder. You were mentally healthy when you weren’t mentally ill. But this view has dramatically changed in this century.
- [Twelve rules for managing conflicts in groups](https://malicki.me/twelve-rules-for-managing-conflicts-in-groups/) - In the past three years I've been increasingly engaged in working with groups, both as a therapist and as a supervisor. Conflicts in groups are inevitable and as a group leader you must be prepared to face them. In this post I suggest twelve basic rules that will help you navigate through a group conflict,
- [How to learn ACT (or any psychotherapy)?](https://malicki.me/how-to-learn-act-or-any-psychotherapy/) - How to learn ACT is a really good question. Paradoxically, despite the title, I do not intend to answer the question in this article, because before being able to tell “how to learn?”, we must ask a more fundamental question "what to learn?". So, let's do first things first! CURRICULUM Almost every therapeutic approach has

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