Fine-Tuning Pivotal Moments in Therapy
This 4-day training explores further details of process, for both you and your clients.
Participants need to take NP 1 and 2 before taking this training, as we expand on that foundation.
We will again use a combination of presentation, discussion, exercises, demonstrations, and longer practicum sessions with personalized feedback. We will also do more short role plays, where you can bring in tough moments from your sessions. We will explore ways to approach, assess and work through them.
As with previous trainings, we focus on fine-tuning engagement with somatic processes, close tracking of nervous system reactions and resiliency, and judicious use of EMDR and other uses of bilateral stimulation.
In consult groups, therapists report where “trusting the process” can still be challenging. In this training, we will identify some of the ways this manifests in sessions, how to build experience so your confidence and trust in the process can increase.
Topics include:
• Working with Insecurities
The draw to familiar protective responses
Finding the disconnections insecurities create
How trauma and stress can “help” to expose lifelong debilitating patterns
Unpacking fears and somatic manifestations
“Borderline” dynamics as guides for engagement
Client’s “process” as evidence for your discernment
Gaining traction through somatic sensations vs. story or emotions
The work to make self-reflection tolerable
Addictive and Obsessive/Compulsive dynamics
Helping your client to sustained awareness, so there’s a chance for self-assessment
Tracking dynamics of disconnection as critical for creating the space for newness
Moments of craving, and the “draw” to action
Role Playing tough scenarios from your practice
“My client does not seem to be getting better.”
“This guy can't connect with his body at all.”
“We keep getting stuck in the same place.”
“I get to this point and don’t know what to do.”
“She just keeps talking, and I can’t get in there.”
“It’s so hard to tell if they are ‘in the window’ or not.”
Catching disconnections as they are happening
The importance of establishing a baseline for resiliency at the beginning of each session
Noticing hidden client “caution,” and the potential for therapist’s overrides
Identifying the tools you need to refocus in moments of disconnection
Mis-diagnosing outcome vs. process
Fine-tune your “pacing” to increase the effectiveness of “fattening the moment”
Holding sensation longer - when and how?
Stepping into indicators of “something happening” when we don’t know what it is.
Assessing the impact of your own interventions, in the moment
Challenges for the therapist when there is a need to “take a stronger lead”
Therapist self-support in moments where “holding the heat” can feel threatening to your client
Therapists feeling anxious, threatened or unsafe
Different strategies inside and outside the “window of tolerance,” and at the edges
Each day has lecture/presentation/discussion, a demonstration session or videotape, and 45-60 minute practicums with personalized feedback for each participant.
Trainings are limited to 27 participants to allow the work to be very personalized.
28 CE Credit Hours approved through for Psychologists, LCSW's, LMFT's, LCPC's and LMHC's. Click below for details:
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