Be well prepared for your first session - it will make all the difference!

First off - don't panic! Keep in mind the following, and enjoying your first session! Take comfort from the following tips...

Writing your essay? Do you find that references and bibliographies are a tortuous element added at the end? 

Be clever! Make a literature grid.

A literature grid will hold all the information you for references/bibliographies.  When you are doing your initial reading, take your notes, excerpts and quotes and put them into the literature grid with all the relevant information. 

This is an excerpt from David Ryback's Self-Determination and the Neurology of Mindfulness from the Journal of Humanistic Psychology. To access the full publication, please visit http://jhp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/46/4/474

During the past decade or two, a strong movement toward integrating brain research with inner awareness has emerged into the movement becoming known as mindfulness.

If you are studying any qualification from Diploma upwards, it will likely be necessary to undertake a piece of research in your chosen area of Therapy.  Whilst the methodology, type of data gathering/analysis, population and area of study are all key to what you decide to focus on, it is sometimes helpful to get ideas from what other students have studied in the past.