•  To tell truth, I'm afraid you‘ll click off of this page because the vision of doing real therapy at home might strike you as far-fetched. So, to keep you sticking around,I need to quickly show  that doing real therapy at home is a reality .

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• Research at UCLA and UC Berkeley proves that it works. Ordinary adults learned to do talk therapy after three to seven lessons. 

•  Our therapy training brought unexpected benefits beyond a new skill for helping friends, family, and loved ones. The new therapy talk tools showed up as great aids in personal relationships. They reduced stressful conversations, but even better, they brought back lost warmth,and  lost intimacy. Many used the word “Amazing”. Honest.

• Over the years, the obvious benefits from the original  audio instructions made me think of making an online version. Finally, I decided to gather colleagues and students to produce an easy to use set of short, entertaining,videos. That meant recruiting  adults  to take the lessons and give us feedback. So, if you are interested in applying to take some online lessons , let me know goodma@ ucla.edu.   I’ll email a general outline of the training content.  three key home therapy tools and a rough picture of what volunteers wild do.   Let me know why you are interested.                            

• NOTICES                                                                               1.We need to reduce research complications by asking current therapy patients to defer joining us until we begin Beta Testing.     

2. Each lesson is followed by a practice exercise requiring a training partner.                                                                      3. We need each feedbac questionnaire within a week after finishing a lesson.

4. If you want a TMI deep dive into what a therapy technique looks like, see the Reflection Chapter  in the The Talk Book, (Goodman,Amazon). It’s old and dense, but still used in college classes.

                                                                   

 

• Psych students arent representative--mention earlier or simple delete the complication

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•   But our breakthrough in training people to exchange therapeutic conversations with friends, family, and loved ones is the real thing. It’s backed by research at UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of Chicago.

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• List benefits before outlining how it works.

• I can explain how it works and how you can join our Feedback Group who will react to our new online lessons. Stick around for two minutes for a little introduction.

• This is a non-profit program organized by my colleagues and students. Our challenge is to transform therapist training from old audio cassettes and my live classes at UCLA to online education and guided practice exercises. This ____ is an extension of 35 years of teaching psychotherapy and therapeutic conversations. It’s a labor of love.

• After years of research, writing, and reading the therapy literature, I’ve come to believe the basic elements of talk therapy are special forms of uncommon honesty, warm acceptance, and expressed empathy. We nicknamed them   H.A.E.  By “special” I mean they are something like everyday honesty, acceptance, and empathy, but are very specific behaviors for doing successful talk therapy. 

• When HAE ------powerfu life changing experience--thetrio can predict healthy intimacy between parents and children, lovers and long lasting frondships//////////

 

• So please stick around for two minutes to see some breakthroughscientific evidence. I want TO gife you good reason for doing home-therapy therapeutic conversations at home rather than going to someone's office.

• DONT ACCUSE VIEWER OF BEING THERAPY SUCKER--

 

                                   HERE’S MY POSITION   

                             This unfamiliar stuff begs your open mind

 

                                      

 

 My research, at UC Berkeley, proved that college students could be trained to create therapeutic conversations. Other researchers around the country read my book, tested the method, and found it worked. At UCLA. my graduate students did doctoral dissertations which improved home- therapy training. 

Furture evidence came from the National Institute of Mental health’s support in testing training packages for the public. We built audiotape versions for the California Dept of Mental Health and eventually home therapy training tapes went to thousands of homes, churches, colleges, and even large corporations. I saw our invention thriving for years before it rapidly crashed when audiocassettes suddenly became obsolete as the internet took over 

 

 

 

•  Health  funded  other investigations on providing therapy skills to the public. Private Practice therapists didn't appear excited about self-care for mental health issues. Therapy skills in public hands could threaten their livelihood--and they said so. Most clinical psychologists, social workers, and psychiatrists simply disregarded the new national movement for “ Giving-Psychology-Away”. Eventually, the smaller group of idealist mental health professors lost.  It was painful for us. I still believe it’s a breakthrough that can bring psychological relief to millions and its financial impact distracted a profession from doing the right thing.

• Therapy scholars frequently say------disrupt the way americans get therapy---something about the most thoughtful therapy reseachers say stuff a bout dirupting the current ways we deliver therapy to public

• As young therapist I neglected reading research on when therapy didnt do much or how clients hated to say the hours and money spent didnt do enough long term, or when I read that some clients actually made bad decisions from bad therapy. I loved my new role as a professional helper--a well educated, well-intentioned talk-therapist  whos patients saw as wise--even though i felt too youn to really be wise. Do ATER establishing benefits,

• , My colleagues around the country urged me to traEXCUSE FOR FAILING TO TRANSFORM IS DERAIL FRO EVIDENCEnsform all our tape programs into internet apps. It turnout to be much more work than anybody expected, and I did little more than teach classes and escape from academia to my mountain top home---- excuse---many years of ten hour days away from wife and son.

• because  further testingMany were in use until the internet made

•  Apparently our failure  this great id Mental-heath self-care became a minority movementover the years. But lately, we are witnessing a resurgence of giving away real therapy tools for 

coping with our lonliness crisis, and  growing failure rate of marriages and romantic relationships, and family estrangements.            

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•   The SUPERIOR THERAPIST AND SICK CLIENT 

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• Maybe quote The Purchase of Frienship----but be careful about Therapy-Lifers

• MIGHTY MINUTES of humanistic wisdom and research knowledge  

• [expand in 2 sentences] Start with 5 of these MMs

• MICROLESSONS These teach techniques for Home-therapy in 3-5 minutes [tiny paragraph underneath says also coaches training exercises] Need 4 of these H, A, E and the 3 combined as the effective part of talk-thpy--the enactment of intimacy-------the ancient elements of fucking------------the glue of lasting love.

• HUMANISTIC THERAPY MICROLESS0N Five minutes on HAE with-specific links to the 3 skills and the 4 no-no’s / prohibitions like verbal crowding.,diagnosing, interrogating,and advice-giving

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• Berkeley TMy first encouragement came from training typical UC Berkeley college students he successful training method was based on uncommon honesty, accepting differences, and expressing empathy. for kids fears, and emotional hurts.  The Institute of Mental Health supported this experiment and my writing a research book for psychologists.                                                       

•  The next piece of evidence came from teaching therapy techniques to undergrads at UCLA. One of the techniques required extreme openness, an attitude of warm acceptance, and a capacity for expressing empathy.   I simply call it the Honesty-Accepting-Empathy technique, or H--A--E for short. My student's surprising enthusiasm for H--A--E encouraged me to design an audio training program.   . A handful of dissertations made the program more effective. UCLA  sold a thousand . I decided to make a career of giving psychology away big time. But all I did was teach grad students to do psychotherapy and write about therapeutic conversations until now. Until starting this website for training folks to do therapy and worrying about viewers  l clicking  away. /////The end.///

• Let’s see if i kept my two minute promise----It timed out at one minute fort five seconds. I’mtrying to earn a bit of your trust.

• If your willing, I can fill you in on the possibilities

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• wont believe doing therapy at home wont believe me and c onYou Tube and worrying about ,So I continued tYears went by  Public feedback made me daydream of teaching HAE convinced  me to continue  ll in love with the idea, My career in in giving psychology away    

• Having an honest, accepting, empathic conversation with someone you love requires skill. Simply deciding to get better connected isn't enough, 3/8/24

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•  encouraging me  a skill based on the therapistsThe course wasundergads  testing a therapy training theory at UCLA  testing creating programs therapy programs at UCLA

• Our research-based findings from UC Berkeley have demonstrated that ordinary college students were able to establish a series of therapeutic sessions with troubled kids

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•  But our research for the National Institutes of Mental Health shows that our training method is the real thing. It took years of development at UC Berkeley and won the   Innovations Award  at UCLA.   

• If you stick around for two minutes, I’ll tell you where we’re coming from and how you can try out some four-minute video lessons. If you're wondering where’s the hitch, here it is:

• These lessons are free of charge, but we want some work from you

 

•  We need utterly honest feedback on every lesson from all genders, all ages, various backgrounds etc.  We may use a 10-12 minute questionnaire on how you experienced each lesson; your likes, dislikes, confusion,insights, boredom--maybe even excitement.

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•  At this point. I’m asking psychology students to hold off applying for this first pilot research.You may have biases or knowledge that will mess with our need for a balanced cross-section. e the non-psychology students about how each lesson felt, where was it confusing, what was new for you,

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•  flashy titles follhooks      some sleezy promise  strange people helping each other  learning to doing-- therapy-- at-- home   sounds realisti might sound unrealistic. I’m concerned that folks won't believe it’s possible and will click away. If you stick around for 2 ½ minutes, I'll give you some reasons to consider our breakthroughs in teaching everyday people to use professional therapy tools.

•  We started by training about 200 UCBerkeley students to have therapeutic conversations with emotionally troubled sixth-grade kids.  I spent several years developing training methods for teaching college students therapy tools. The National Institute of Mental Health wanted to know if it was feasible and safe. My research revealed that these UC Berkeley students were able to establish perfectly safe therapeutic conversations with emotionally troubled 6th graders after 6 training sessions. That experience changed my life. A bunch of us young psychologists fell in love with the possibility of giving therapy tools to non-professional everyday people to help family. Friends, and loved ones heal psyc wounds ----prospect--A as my career  

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•  The answer was “yes” and the technical details are in Companionship Therapy, Goodman.

•   (promise a chapter list posting if u wanna know more--bad idea  this early--stops the casual flow? to any of you wanting to know??)

•  _________Messy SUPPLY BELO--------skip--------------------

•  I So,if I need to tell to explain we have trained almost two hundred students to do therapy with troubled kids. ’ll give you a reasons to believe we can teach everyday people to use professional therapy tools.

•  Our , oline  training model takes seven sessions and practice exercises

• pre-teens in the hope that you’ll stick around.                            real          

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• Unrealistic or simply deceptive click-bait.      impossible. irregular .ridiculous, unlikely,far-fetced when I tell you what this website can do. Maybe, people will click away immediately   When I tell them that everyday people can learn the trade secrets of professional psychotherapists after 7:00 training sessions. so that's why I want to brag a bit about my long experience doing therapy research and teaching it and doing it. - at home with friends family and loved ones after 7:00 online sessions - - talk to therapy. 

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•  comes from a guy who taught therapy for over 40 years at UCLA and UC berkeley. I'm hoping you'll stick around because I don't professor can get into big trouble by lying to the public. I'll start by admitting that the trade secrets of therapists are not deliberate concealments but simple disregards because because They are busy building practices with no time for giving them to the public. but the result remains this the same at most folks no next to nothing about the three or four key talk to us for creating therapeutic sessions

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•  they are surprising tools I've talked to my typical 30-year-old grad students and my 18-year-old undergrads one of my deepest pleasures is to hear they're wonderful stories over the years their skills for making close connections expanded into their into their personal lives they tended to have more than ordinary communication skills. they were trained to make honest accepting empathic conversations. those conversations to added up to trusting empathic relationships. now science tells us that the quality of intimate relationships at 50 predicts better blank blank at 70 years and extended longevity. intimacy makes living happier and healthier. if you are skeptical about that single fact take a look at Bing Bing Bing on the YouTube Harvard's longitudinal study. 

 

Psychotherapy SCIENCE: good and bad and neutral resuts

 

 

The purchase of friendship, Schofield, Backpage

 

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                PROS & Cons of therapy                                        No, Jennifer,, therapy doesnt allways work

 

Pro; Sessions can feel good  CON Sessinans can fee  Cons--feelgood sessions can mean nodeep examination