F. Michler Bishop Ph.D.

About

F. Michler Bishop, Ph.D., is in private practice in New York City after retiring from the Albert Ellis Institute (AEI) where he worked closely with Dr. Ellis for over twenty years, running groups and workshops. He is the author of the forthcoming book, Modern Integrative Counseling and Psychotherapy. During his long career, he has advocated for a compassionate, goal-focused modern therapeutic approach, integrating a variety of research-based treatment options with alternative healing techniques and activities that a client has found helpful in the past. The overall objective is to create a unique therapy for each client. He has conducted numerous workshops on CBT, Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (REBT), MI and SMART Recovery in the United States and internationally. He currently works with clients grappling with anxiety and mood disorders, relationship issues, and impulse control problems.

Recent Posts

Disclosing Sensitive Topics In Therapy

Shame and other factors can cause someone to avoid telling their therapist important information. These four doable steps may help overcome this obstacle to effective therapy.

How to Manage Your Conflicted Feelings Better

Do you have conflicted feelings? How to become more aware and accepting of your competing neural networks, your conflicted "committee members."

The 6 Critical Parts of Most Modern Therapy Sessions

Do you know the six key parts of most effective modern therapy sessions?

Why and How in Modern Counseling and Psychotherapy

Which is more important? Understanding why you feel, think and do what you do or learning how to feel, think and do better?

When Is Enough Enough?

For Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, it is not time to “forget it” and “move on.” What about you?

How to Avoid Overdrinking or Overeating During the Holidays

We know what we want. We want to not overdrink or overeat again during the holidays. But how can we do that?

Do You Have a Brain Disease? If So, Can You Get Over It?

Even if you’ve changed your brain – and you may have – you can change it back.

How Is Modern Psychotherapy Different?

Over the past fifty years, a revolution in psychotherapy has occurred. Should you try counseling again or for the first time?

Free Online Help During the Pandemic

Never been to a “recovery” meeting? These are different. During this pandemic, a free, online meeting might be just the thing you've been looking for.

Can You Predict and Prevent Overdrinking?

Like weather prediction, which was laughed at when first suggested in the 1850s, you could probably predict the likelihood of overdrinking on any given night.