THERAPEUTIC PRESENCE
Stay with the person in front of you.
Work on curiosity, listening, pacing or other behaviours that help you remain present when the conversation becomes emotionally demanding.
CUEPOINT FOR THERAPISTS
You know how
you want to work.
The harder part is staying with that intention
while the conversation is actually happening.
THE INTENTION IS CLEAR
Then the conversation becomes real.
Silence. Emotion. Uncertainty. A difficult disclosure. A client who wants an answer. A moment where you feel stuck. Your own reactions entering the room.
YOU MEANT TO
Stay curious.
You think you already understand what is happening.
YOU MEANT TO
Ask before you explain.
Silence feels uncomfortable and you start filling it.
YOU MEANT TO
Stay with the client's experience.
You notice yourself moving too quickly toward a solution.
YOU MEANT TO
Notice your own reactions.
Something in the conversation pulls you toward frustration, worry or urgency.
PROFESSIONAL INTENTION MATTERS
But behaviour
is what reaches the client.
CUEPOINT IN THERAPEUTIC WORK
Keep your professional intentions close.
CuePoint can help turn a broad professional intention into a small number of behaviours you can actually notice while the conversation is happening.
Not a treatment model. Not a clinical assessment. Not a replacement for supervision, training or therapeutic judgement.
A way to practise the behaviours you want to bring into your work more consistently.
ONE CONVERSATION AT A TIME
A simple loop for deliberate professional practice.
BEFORE01
Choose how you want to work.
Decide which therapeutic behaviours or intentions matter in this conversation before the session begins.
DURING02
Come back to them.
Use a Cue when emotion, uncertainty, silence, urgency or your own reactions start pulling attention elsewhere.
AFTER03
Notice what you actually did.
Reflect on your own behaviour while the session is still fresh — without reducing the conversation to a simple judgement of whether it went well.
OVER TIME04
Discover your patterns.
See which intentions remain stable, what becomes difficult in particular situations and what may be worth developing further.
AFTER THE SESSION
Did that session go well?
What did I actually do?
A difficult session can still contain very good therapeutic work.
A session that feels easy or productive does not automatically tell you which of your behaviours were useful.
CuePoint helps keep reflection closer to what you actually did, while leaving clinical judgement where it belongs.
PROFESSIONAL SITUATIONS
Work on one part of your practice at a time.
CuePoint can support different development questions without pretending that therapeutic work can be reduced to one method.
DIFFICULT MOMENTS
Notice what happens when you feel stuck.
Explore how your behaviour changes when silence grows, progress feels slow or you are unsure what to do next.
YOUR OWN REACTIONS
Keep your reactions visible without letting them lead.
Use CuePoint to follow behaviours that help you notice your own urgency, frustration, worry or desire to solve.
DELIBERATE PRACTICE
Work on one part of your therapeutic behaviour.
Follow a specific professional intention across several sessions rather than trying to improve everything at once.
CUEPOINT CAN ALSO SUPPORT WORK BETWEEN SESSIONS
Help someone turn intention into something they can do.
When it fits the work, a Framework can help make behaviour outside the therapy room more concrete and easier to reflect on later.
Make actions concrete
Help a client turn a broad intention into a few behaviours they can actually notice in everyday situations.
Adapt the language
Use words that fit the client rather than forcing professional terminology into the Framework.
Bring experience back
Use what happened between sessions as material for reflection without reducing success to whether everything felt better.
A TOOL FOR ATTENTION — NOT A THERAPY MODEL
CuePoint does not decide what good therapy is.
Different approaches, clients and situations require different professional judgement.
CuePoint only helps keep selected behaviours visible enough to practise, notice and reflect on.
The therapeutic thinking still belongs to the therapist and the method being used.
FROM ONE PRACTITIONER TO ANOTHER
Good thinking should travel.
Practitioners develop useful ways of approaching difficult moments, conversations and professional behaviours over years of practice.
CuePoint can help turn some of that thinking into Frameworks that others can use, adapt and test within their own professional context.
CUEPOINT FOR THERAPISTS
What matters.
When it matters.
Not another treatment model. A way to keep the professional behaviours you want to practise close to the conversations where they matter.