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Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, Vol 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery

Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, Vol 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery

with Orah Krug, Victor Yalom
Asking “How do you feel?” is a typical way we try to help clients expand their internal awareness. But unfortunately, it’s often a dead-end, and many therapists don’t know how to follow up. In this masterclass, you’ll learn powerful techniques to help clients accelerate the internal discovery process so they can gain additional resources to tackle the problems bringing them to therapy. 
Powerful Ideas for Developing Your Best Therapeutic Self

Powerful Ideas for Developing Your Best Therapeutic Self

with Victor Yalom
There’s a powerful tool that you can use to improve client outcomes regardless of therapeutic issue, modality or population. And the best part? You've already got it. It’s you. Victor Yalom shares insights on how to hone your clinical self.
Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond "How Do You Feel?" - Laura: Stuck in Despair

Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond "How Do You Feel?" - Laura: Stuck in Despair

with Victor Yalom
When clients are battling depression, it can be challenging to know how they can share their emotions in a way that promotes growth. Learn powerful here-and-now techniques to connect with clients and move sessions forward by inviting them to fully experience their world of emotions.  
Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach

with Travis Heath
What if, rather than focusing on presenting problems, symptoms, diagnoses and other traditional approaches to working with clients, we embraced a culturally democratic approach that invites clients to speak on behalf of their own healing? Discover how to go beyond listening and emphasizing, and learn how to collaborate with clients using their existing strengths, traditions and heritage.
Scott Miller on Improving Psychotherapy Outcome

Scott Miller on Improving Psychotherapy Outcome

with Scott Miller
It is not practice alone that makes for better therapy or builds better therapists. According to Scott Miller, it is the methods of "deliberate practice," gleaned from his study of experts and expertise, that will help you to improve your clinical skills and therapeutic success rate.
Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 1

Working in the Here and Now: Deepening Therapeutic Encounters Part 1

with Victor Yalom
What can psychotherapists do to help clients fully experience their emotions and, in the process, improve their relationships? Learn to use powerful here-and-now therapy techniques so clients can fully access their inner emotional worlds while deepening their connections with others in their life. 
Reimagining Narrative Therapy: Rewriting Stories and Reclaiming Identities

Reimagining Narrative Therapy: Rewriting Stories and Reclaiming Identities

with Travis Heath
Travis Heath presents his work with three clients who have stood up to racism in their own unique ways and shares contemporary techniques to help your clients move beyond constricting narratives about pathology, race, and identity, to live in more authentic and meaningful ways. 
Motivational Interviewing with a Defiant Teen

Motivational Interviewing with a Defiant Teen

with Sebastian Kaplan
What do you do when your young client doesn’t want to be in school, much less therapy? Learn how to avoid the landmines commonly set by teens struggling to assert their autonomy, and develop rapport with even the most resistant clients.
What Works in Psychotherapy

What Works in Psychotherapy

with Scott Miller
What works in psychotherapy? In this interview by Randall C. Wyatt, Miller shares everything he knows about psychotherapy outcomes, including simple practices that significantly improves outcomes.
Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond "How Do You Feel" — Hamed: Prompting Self-Discovery

Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond "How Do You Feel" — Hamed: Prompting Self-Discovery

with Victor Yalom
What do psychotherapists and counselors do when clients want to explain rather than experience their feelings? Learn simple but powerful techniques for helping clients expand their inner awareness and discover new things in every session.
The Therapeutic Relationship, Individualized Treatment and Other Keys to Successful Psychotherapy

The Therapeutic Relationship, Individualized Treatment and Other Keys to Successful Psychotherapy

with John C. Norcross
In this compelling interview with one of the most prominent psychotherapy researchers of our time, Dr. John Norcross presents the results from fourteen meta-analyses that reveal the secrets to successful therapy.
Experiential Techniques for Deepening Inner Exploration: Part 1

Experiential Techniques for Deepening Inner Exploration: Part 1

with Victor Yalom
Victor Yalom demonstrates powerful techniques to help clients go deeper into their immediate internal experience so they can discover new facets of themselves, including thoughts, feelings, and bodily sensations. 
Achieving Psychotherapy Effectiveness

Achieving Psychotherapy Effectiveness

with Molyn Leszcz, Clare Pain and Jon Hunter
Regardless of orientation, there are several core therapeutic elements that underscore any successful treatment. Discover what they are, and how to leverage them-- complete with lectures and clinical vignettes.
Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 2: Beverly

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 2: Beverly

with Travis Heath
What do you do when you meet with a client who has no presenting problems? For many therapists, their approach is so pathology-oriented that such sessions can feel unfocused and disarming. Discover a Contemporary Narrative Therapy approach that shifts the focus to people, not problems, and invites you to engage with your client’s stories with a curiosity and creativity that cultivates hope and healing. 
Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 3: Ian

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 3: Ian

with Travis Heath
How can you bring yourself to the room more fully as a person, offering more than just empathy? Discover how to become an active participant in the process of moving clients beyond the limits of their worlds as they know them. Using a Contemporary Narrative Therapy approach, you can help clients trace the profound impact of systemic racism, and redefine not just their own stories, but the limits they have set for themselves.
Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 1 Vinodha

Reimagining Multiculturalism: A Contemporary Narrative Approach, Volume 1 Vinodha

with Travis Heath
Do you want to know your clients beyond the constrictive labels of presenting problems, diagnoses and other traditional constructs of psychotherapy? Using a Narrative Therapy lens, Travis Heath will show you a culturally democratic approach to therapy that draws upon existing client strengths, traditions and other resources to foster deep understanding, insight and connection.
Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, Vol 2: Working in the Here-and-Now

Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, Vol 2: Working in the Here-and-Now

with Orah Krug, Victor Yalom
Working in the here-and-now is one of the more powerful but misunderstood therapeutic skills. Learn through extensive clinical demonstrations how to use the space between you and your client to energize sessions and help them increase their interpersonal awareness and capacity for connection.
Victor Yalom on Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mastery

Victor Yalom on Psychotherapy and the Pursuit of Mastery

Psychotherapy.net’s founder, entrepreneur, artist, and psychotherapist Victor Yalom shares insights learned and applied from working with the masters.
Makungu Akinyela on Testimony and the Mattering of Black Therapy

Makungu Akinyela on Testimony and the Mattering of Black Therapy

In this riveting interview with scholar and clinician, Makungu Akinyela, we learn the matters of Black therapy and that Black Therapy matters.
How Therapists Fail: Why Too Many Clients Drop Out of Therapy Prematurely

How Therapists Fail: Why Too Many Clients Drop Out of Therapy Prematurely

with Bernard Schwartz, PhD and John Flowers, PhD
If we could learn from all of our less-than-optimal therapy outcomes, we'd really acquire some true clinical wisdom.  Here are some practical tips to increase your odds of success.
Barry Duncan on The Heart and Soul of Change

Barry Duncan on The Heart and Soul of Change

Psychotherapist and researcher Barry Duncan discusses how routine outcome monitoring in treatment can harness client’s involvement and strengths to make lasting change.
Psychotherapy Status Report: Past Achievements/Current Failures/Future Disruptions

Psychotherapy Status Report: Past Achievements/Current Failures/Future Disruptions

with Allen Frances, MD
Taking the long view, behavioral sciences expert, Allen Frances offers a pointed review of psychotherapy’s failures and achievements, with suggestions for a hopeful future. 
"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better": A New Mantra for Psychotherapists

"When I'm good, I'm very good, but when I'm bad I'm better": A New Mantra for Psychotherapists

with Barry Duncan, PhD and Scott Miller, PhD
Barry Duncan and Scott Miller provide a comprehensive summary of the Outcome-Informed, Client-Directed approach and a detailed, practical overview of its application in clinical practice.
Scott Miller on Why Most Therapists Are Just Average (and How We Can Improve)

Scott Miller on Why Most Therapists Are Just Average (and How We Can Improve)

Scott Miller, expert researcher on what makes a good therapist, breaks down the difference between the masters and the rest of us.
Tony Rousmaniere on Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists

Tony Rousmaniere on Deliberate Practice for Psychotherapists

Psychotherapist and expert on experts, Tony Rousmaniere, explores the importance of "deliberate practice" (you know, what musicians and athletes do to master their crafts) for psychotherapists.
Bruce Wampold on What Actually Makes Us Good Therapists

Bruce Wampold on What Actually Makes Us Good Therapists

Expert clinician and researcher Bruce Wampold talks about his "contextual model" of psychotherapy which, rooted in the most comprehensive and up-to-date scientific research, incorporates the most effective elements across all therapy modalities.
Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy

Deliberate Practice in Psychotherapy

with Tony Rousmaniere
Psychotherapy researcher and clinician Tony Rousmaniere teaches us that 10,000 hours of psychotherapy doesn’t make you an expert; focused deliberate practice is the path to excellence.
Daryl Chow on Reigniting Clinical Supervision

Daryl Chow on Reigniting Clinical Supervision

Clinician, researcher and author Daryl Chow teaches us how to reignite the fire of supervision in order to improve client outcomes.
Losing Faith: Arguing for a New Way to Think About Therapy

Losing Faith: Arguing for a New Way to Think About Therapy

with Scott Miller
Psychologist Scott Miller, who has spent years researching what works in psychotherapy, details the dark days after losing his faith in the profession, and his long journey back to loving and believing in his vocation once again.
Preventing Psychotherapy Dropouts with Client Feedback

Preventing Psychotherapy Dropouts with Client Feedback

with Tony Rousmaniere
One beginning therapist shares his success with the Session Rating Scale in improving his practice.
Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success?

Supershrinks: What is the secret of their success?

with Barry Duncan, PhD and Scott Miller, PhD
Clients of the best therapists improve at a rate at least 50-percent higher and drop out at a rate at least 50-percent lower than those of average clinicians. What is the key to superior performance?