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Nietzschean Psychotherapist

"Friendship with a Hammer"

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Author: Glenn Nicholls

My writing is based on conversations I've had with myself and other people over the last twenty years or so whilst practicing as, and becoming a Nietzschean Psychotherapist.

‘What am I paying you for?’

16th Dec 20212nd Aug 2022 ~ Glenn Nicholls ~ Leave a comment

I have often wondered what you pay for when you pay me for psychotherapy. Perhaps: You pay me in the hope I cannot be bought. You pay me since not paying me would seem even odder. You pay me so you do not owe me, even if you think you do. You pay me to … Continue reading ‘What am I paying you for?’

Inner Voices

19th Jun 202012th Apr 2022 ~ Glenn Nicholls ~ Leave a comment

A very short story about a man, a stranger and a herd of goats on a hill-side discussing internal voices, exorcism, angels, demons, multiplicity, integration, healing, listening, the self, the Bible, walking and amongst other things, animal husbandry.

Become invisible to stand out.

11th May 202012th Apr 2022 ~ Glenn Nicholls ~ Leave a comment

This blog is about an interview I went to hoping to get work as a leadership and executive coach. It describes how the act of making myself invisible enabled the interviewer to see me.

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I welcome contact from people who enjoy my blog; have a similar interest in Nietzsche and psychotherapy; and anyone that would like to work with me.

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My Practice

If you’d like to read more about my work as a psychotherapist, executive coach, couple therapist, clinical supervisor or trainer please see my ‘Sister-Site’:

www.personal-professional-development.co.uk

  • Why I am the best therapist
  • Chimpanzee on the couch
  • “I seek the truth,” spoke the liar.
  • The double betrayal at the heart of becoming a psychotherapist
  • The value of being eaten and other ‘dark arts’
  • Death is like…
  • How to spend a penny
  • “Humanistic? No, I’m more animalistic…”
  • Clients can become my best friends.
  • “I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar…”
  • The creation of my life as death.
  • The day my therapy went up in smoke.
  • ‘What am I paying you for?’
  • Inner Voices
  • Become invisible to stand out.

Hammer & Fork

Nietzsche described himself as philosophising with a hammer: the tuning hammer and fork is a metaphor for sounding things out. I see psychotherapy similarly; it takes a skillful, direct and gentle touch to sound out thoughts, ideas, behaviours and beliefs.

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