Alexandre Vaz

Deliberate practice exercises help psychotherapists learn core helping skills that are applicable to any approach, such as empathically responding to clients, exploring emotions and options for change, and managing the therapeutic relationship.

This guide outlines a step-by-step framework so clinicians can help clients use AI tools safely and effectively in their day-to-day lives, using it to support therapeutic work rather than replace it.

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees gain competence in empathically talking about suicide and self-injury with clients and assessing risk.

This book provides trainees opportunities to build competence in essential behavioral parent training skills while developing their personal therapeutic style.  

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees achieve competence in essential accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy skills.

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees internalize and apply essential career counseling skills while honing their own personal style.

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees build competence in emotionally focused couple therapy while cultivating their unique therapeutic styles.

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees build competence in key interpersonal psychotherapy skills while honing their personal therapeutic style.

Deliberate practice exercises help trainees learn and apply psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy skills while honing their own personalized approach.

These exercises present role-playing scenarios in which two trainees act as a client and a clinician, switching back and forth under the guidance of a supervisor.

Deliberate practice exercises provide trainees and students an opportunity to build competence in essential rational emotive behavior therapy skills.

Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse foundational schema therapy skills so that they can build competence and hone their own personal therapeutic styles.

Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse foundational dialectical behavior therapy skills and strategies to help respond effectively and flexibly to diverse, complex clinical presentations and situations.

Deliberate practice exercises allow students and trainees to rehearse systemic family therapy (SFT) skills to develop basic competence and hone their own personal therapeutic style.

Deliberate practice exercises facilitate the rehearsal of fundamental motivational interviewing skills so clinicians can better help clients with change goals, like quitting addictive behaviors and developing healthier habits.

This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental skills in child and adolescent psychotherapy until they become natural and automatic.

This book presents deliberate practice exercises in which students and trainees rehearse fundamental emotion-focused therapy skills until they become natural and automatic.