What is this new clinical, evidence-based practice resource?
How do you use it?
Uncovering Treasures That Matter
A Therapist’s Guide to Asking the Right Questions
This book, a one-stop resource, offers:
~ an evidence-based writing method for self-discovery, growth, and healing
~a resource with hundreds of prompts and sensitizing questions across 50 life themes,
to use in your clinical work with individuals, couples, groups, or in workshop
The helpful answer starts with the right question.
Working with individuals or couples, we often balance giving feedback, insights, and suggestions
vs. asking perspective-shifting questions. Yet, every therapist/coach hits a wall sooner or later. In my decades of clinical work, I have identified 50 universal themes* that people bring into the therapy room. Imagine opening this book and finding the theme that targets where the person or couple is stuck. In the book, you will find hundreds of questions that will help deepen or broaden or create inspiration to help liberate the struggle—an instant consultation. Effective questions can be a key to unlocking stuck places a client may be experiencing.
The same fifty themes are applicable to group work. With hundreds of prompts or sensitizing
questions, ask your group member to choose a question that stirs something in them—that
makes them smile or feel noisy inside. Then they can write, read, and get support. The research** suggests there can be positive change with this evidence-based model. In workshops, writing about the same theme by each participant, but using a specific prompt chosen by the participant, reading aloud, and receiving only supportive feedback encourages curiosity and learning.
*See the “Table of Contents” on TreasuresThatMatter.com for a list of every theme.
**See “History and Research” information on TreasuresThatMatter.com for detailed evidence-based information.