Clients who come to us feeling lonely, isolated, and depressed, often struggle because they are walled off from both their own feelings and from others in their lives. The key to helping these clients is to pay close attention to their relationship with you, the clinician, in real time — the “here-and-now.” Using and then discussing video clips from his first session with Heather, a sad, lonely, and self-critical client who craves caring and attention, Yalom teaches you how to deepen your own clients’ emotional experiences, expand their self-awareness, and build a springboard for healthy relationships outside of the therapy room.

With over 30 years of experience doing therapy, learning from the masters — especially his father, Irvin Yalom — and creating clinical training videos, Yalom knows that if you pay close attention to what's happening moment to moment with the client, much can be revealed and harvested productively for therapeutic progress. By watching him masterfully weave together self-disclosure, transparency, dynamic process comments, self-awareness, and emotional feedback with Heather, you will deepen your own clinical efficacy and be better equipped to free clients who are locked within themselves. While you may initially find working in the here-and-now daunting, Yalom will carefully and clearly guide you through this process; helping you take this crucial step with your own clients while contributing to powerful therapeutic results.