You can consult me face-to-face if you live near Hebden Bridge or Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK; or you can consult me over the telphone system; or by email; or over the computer network - if you live further afield.

You wish besides find information on this website simply about REBT/CBT books, training courses, REBT research, and so on.

For further information, or to find out simply about potential appointments:

• Email Jim Byrne at ABC Coaching job and Guidance Services.

• Telephone Jim Byrne, on 01422 843 629, from inside the UK; or 44 1422 843 629 from outside the UK.

• Or download the Information Pack if you are interested in Face to Face meetings.

• Or go to the Online Coaching job page if you want to consult me via email, telephone or over the internet.

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"The foundation of all of my activity is Rational Affectional Behaviour Medical care (REBT/CBT): combined with Transsal Analysis (TA) and Zen; and another modern narrative therapies: to produce Psychological feature Affectional Narrative Medical care (CENT). If I can be said to specialize in anything, then I specialize in happiness coaching. However, I do this by portion folk with all kinds of emotional, activity and relationship problems to become more effective at managing their lives".
Jim Byrne, September 2007.

So if you want to be happier, or to discover how to help others to be happier, then please email Jim Byrne, at ABC Coaching. Or phone me on 01422 843 629 (from inside the UK), or 44 1422 843 629 (from outside the UK).

Jim Byrne, Psychological feature Affectional Narrative Therapist (REBT/CBT/CENT).

WELCOME AND SIGNPOSTING

Hello and welcome to ABC Coaching job and Guidance Services; the house of Cognitive-Emotive Narrative Therapy, which is a fusion of Narrative, Psychological feature and Psychodynamic therapies: especially Rational Affectional Behaviour Therapy, Zen philosophy and Transsal Analysis (TA).

On this page you wish find a general introduction to this website; plus several articles on happiness, success, and another topics; plus several links to my main services.

If you have a problem with your emotions, behaviours or relationships, there is always great hope of a better tomorrow!

Would you like to feel more less miserable than you presently do? To come in the direction of more happiness in your life?

Would you like to have happier relationships with your admired ones? That is absolutely possible.

Do you want help with problems of anger, anxiety, depression, self-confidence, self-esteem, stress or relationship difficulties? If so, I can help you - no matter wherever you live on planet Earth. Please stay on this page and see on.

Due to increasing demands upon my time, only a limited number of appointments is now available, either face-to-face or by telephone, email, or over the internet.

There are links to three video clips on this page: one in the 'Philosophy of Life' section, and two in the 'Psychology of Success' section. Those clips are meant to inspire you; to draw attention to vitally important aspects of life that may be escaping you. Please take a look.

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ABOUT JIM BYRNE

My name is Jim Byrne and I am a trained, experienced, registered and commissioned Guidance Psychologist/Psychotherapist. I am in my tenth year in private practice, in Hebden Bridge and Halifax, West Yorkshire; and global over the Computer network and the telephone system. I use Rational Affectional Behaviour Medical care (REBT/CBT), combined with elements of Transsal Analysis, Zen philosophy, and another modern narrative therapies, in my therapeutic activity with clients and trainees. This new medical care is called Psychological feature Affectional Narrative Therapy. To find out more simply about me, please go here:

About Jim Byrne.

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ABOUT RATIONAL Affectional BEHAVIOUR THERAPY

Rational-Emotive Behaviour Medical care (REBT) is the innovational form of Psychological feature Behaviour Medical care (CBT); originated in 1955 by Albert francis charles augustus emmanuel Ellis PhD, a New Dynasty based clinical psychologist.

Albert Ellis gives one of his final lectures on REBT - from a hospital trolley:, Dr Ellis had trained as a clinical scientist once person-centred ideas were prevalent; but then retrained as a neoFreudian analyst and did that for simply about six years, until he discovered that this approach went into "every philosophic irrelevancy", and lost all the philosophic relevancies. So Dr Ellis went back to the philosophers, not the psychologists, and reviewed them: from the ancient Chinese; Greeks; Romans and up to modern Europeans and several of the American pragmatists. Out of this mixture, he designed REBT.

The Guide to Rational Living Albert Ellis is the grand-daddy of modern psychology, and this book is the classic. While galore psychologists and authors focus on one or several "pet techniques," Ellis and this book show you how to adapt an integrated set of rational (cognitive), emotive, and behavioral tools to your personal situations. And Ellis writes this and galore of his another books for us non-psychologists...not simply for "professionals." The book starts by briefly summarizing the results of Ellis' ground-breaking activity on what we do that causes us to feel and behave differently than we want. The author then teaches his general cognitive system...which includes really specific instructions...on how to change these feelings, behaviors, and thoughts. ... Review by Philip Hamilton

• More Information here - What is REBT?

• Or take a look at a range of books on Rational Affectional Behaviour Medical care (REBT/CBT) by Dr Ellis at the ABC Bookstore.

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MY MAIN SERVICES

My main services are as follows:

• REBT/CBT Telephone coaching job and guidance worldwide.

• Cognitive Guidance and medical care by email exchanges, worldwide.

• REBT Coaching, guidance and medical care by Instant Messaging (or chat-room typing exchanges), worldwide.

• CBT Coaching, medical care and guidance over the internet, exploitation voice and video technology (with webcams combined with computer network voice-over technologies).

• Face-to-face REBT/CBT coaching, guidance and medical care in Hebden Bridge and Halifax, West Yorkshire, UK.

• Face-to-face Psychological feature Couples Medical care in Hebden Bridge and Halifax, West Yorkshire.

• Anger Management Coaching: By telephone, over the internet, or face-to-face.

• CBT Confidence Coaching, over the telephone, the internet, by email, or face-to-face.

• Training courses for counsellors/therapists, in REBT/CBT.

• Remote supervising (by audio tape) of REBT therapists.

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INFORMATION

Get your copy of the Downloadable Information Pack simply about face-to-face coaching, guidance and medical care services, including fees.

New services: Diet and Exercise Coaching.

Get on track with your health commitments. If you cannot discipline your 'emotional brain', you wish ne'er succeed with diet and exercise commitments. Phone Jim on 44 1422 847 882 (from outside the UK), or 01422 847 882 (from inside the UK).

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ABOUT COGNITIVE-EMOTIVE NARRATIVE Medical care (CENT)

Cognitive-Emotive Narrative Medical care (CENT) is a new integration of therapies, including REBT, CBT, TA, Narrative therapy, Zen therapy, and others. It is presently under development by Jim Byrne.

More - The New Academy for CENT.

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COACHING SERVICES

What is Coaching? It is a one-to-one encounter in which your personal and/or professional goals are the main focus. It is an opportunity for you to get several training and facilitation in how to set goals; how to function showing intelligence towards your goals; what to do to keep yourself motivated; and how to cope with frustrations, distrss and setbacks. Without goals, and a strategy to pursue them, you are like a boat without a rudder.

More information can be found on the Coaching job Page.

And there is besides a range of excellent books on coaching, including several of the best there is on personal, business and performance coaching, here, at The ABC Coaching job Bookstore.

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CLIENT TESTIMONIALS AND LONG-DISTANCE SERVICES

Over a period of more than nine years I have helped more than 450 individuals, including galore couples, to overcome their emotional, activity and relationship problems; and to become more happier than they had ever been before. To see several testimonials from satisfied customers, please take a look at the Client Testimonials page.

If you are looking for help with an emotional, activity or relationship problem, but you do not live inside commutation distance of Hebden Bridge or Halifax, West Yorkshire, then please take a look at the Online (including Telephone) Coaching job page.

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THE Psychological science OF HAPPINESS

My lexicon of psychological science makes not contain a definition of the word 'happiness', chiefly because, historically, psychological science was concerned more with human misery and malfunction than with human thriving.

My English lexicon defines 'happiness' as "...feeling or showing pleasure..." But is that what we usually mean by the word happiness? I suspect that this is sometimes what we mean, but that we often mean thing more calmer, and less dramatic, such as feeling calm and serene; feeling centred and grounded; feeling bliss; feeling comfortable and at peace; and so on.

Indeed, in my model of human emotions, and how they relate to bodily (or physiological) arousal, the word 'happiness' refers to an aroused positive state which occurs at a similar level of vessel and visceral arousal as the 'healthy negative emotions' of concern and irritation. That is to say that happiness thus defined is a reasonable level of positive emotion, with a reasonable level of physiological arousal. Above that level of arousal we get mania, or overly-aroused positive emotion, with excessive physical activity and a generally negative effect upon others who are present and having to witness this frenzied behaviour.

• For a range of books on how to improve your level of happiness, please go here: Books simply about Happiness!

Using this system of definition, we can say that galore folk are seeking happiness as simply defined, but that it can only be achieved by encountering a 'positive stimulus', such as acquiring a pleasant surprise, gaining thing that was desired or sought, escaping from thing that was full-fledged negatively, and so on. Thus, in this definitional schema, happiness is contingent upon the external environment for its presence. If there are no external positive stimuli, then there is no internal state of positive arousal, called 'happiness'. Thus, in this schema, if you want to be happy, you absolutely need to get things, and experience events, that have a positive meaning for you. But that cannot always be arranged, as life tends to have nice and bad elements. So that approach to 'happiness' would-be often, if not normally, be counterproductive. For example, once you experience loss or failure, how are you going to experience any happiness at all?

Another definition of 'happiness' could be this: 'To experience peace of mind; to be calm; to be contented; regardless of external circumstances'. This is closer to the Buddhist conception of 'detachment from desire'; or the Greek (Aristotelian) conception of 'Eudaimonia', which flows from living a virtuous life, rather than receiving thing from outside yourself.

Since you cannot always get what you want; and life can be really difficult, frustrating and sometimes downright painful, I powerfully advise my clients to seek the second type of 'happiness' - viz. 'contentment; detachment; eudaimonia; serenity; acceptance of your lot'. With this approach, you stay with the difficulties in your life; complete your experience of them; embrace them; and feel the sadness, irritation, concern, and so on that these situations evoke in us. What we find with this approach is that, after a certain figure of healthy negative emotion, such as sadness, the sun comes out, and happiness returns, without any need to obtain thing (much) from outside of ourselves. Thus the psychological science of success, for me, becomes the psychological science of acceptance of what is so; detachment from excessive desiring of the unattainable; the living of a virtuous life, with and for others; and so on. In this way we can be 'happy' even as once the rain pours in through our leaky roof, or the money runs out of our bank accounts too quickly!

Two another elements are besides important:

(1) Firstly, it is important to focus your mind upon the gently positive things in your life, in order to notice them, and feel happy that they are there. Otherwise, your attention wish tend to focus upon the gently negative things in your life, and you are likely to do yourself miserable simply about them. So managing your attention is crucial.

(2) Secondly, it is nice to have long-range goals. But if all your goals are long range you wish always be putt off pleasure to several dim, distant futurity which may ne'er come. But if you only have short-term goals, you may fail to accomplish all that may have been possible if you had thought of the long term, planned for it, saved for it, trained for it, and so on. So what you need is a nice balance of long-term and short-terms goals, with daily, weekly and monthly rituals to extract what happiness you can from your life as it proceeds.

But now let us take a look at several of the findings of happiness researchers:

The psychological science of happiness indicates that material assets are not prime factors in promoting happiness, once subsistence level has been reached. The more important factors include:

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Jim Byrne, Gregorian calendar month 2006.