Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond “How Do You Feel?” – Laura: Stuck in Despair
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Victor Yalom, PhD
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Experiential Techniques for Moving Beyond “How Do You Feel?” – Laura: Stuck in Despair

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.   Video length: 1h 23m
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Overview

What do you do when your client spends each session talking about their dark feelings, and you feel stuck, not sure about how to help them heal? How can you help them progress? In this recorded webinar, Psychotherapy.net’s founder Victor Yalom consults with Laura, a clinician who feels stuck and disconnected from a young, depressed client. Through role-play and discussion Yalom demonstrates techniques for breaking the cycle of talking about dark emotions in sessions and instead feeling them, which can lead to insight and foster growth.

With over 30 years of experience doing therapy, learning from the masters, and creating clinical training videos, Yalom knows that becoming an effective therapist requires watching other skilled clinicians at work. By watching him use process comments, modelling, and role-play techniques, you will deepen your own clinical efficacy and be better equipped to help unstick clients who are stuck in despair.

What you'll learn

  • Integrate effective case consultation techniques in your own clinical work
  • Create strategies for supervision that include somatic techniques
  • Design treatment plans that balance the expression of thoughts and feelings

About the Experts

Victor Yalom, PhD
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Victor Yalom, PhD

Victor Yalom, PhD is the founder of Psychotherapy.net producing more than 100 videos in his 30+ years there. He also maintained a busy private practice in San Francisco, conducted workshops in existential-humanistic and group therapy in the US, Mexico, and China, and lead consultation groups for therapists. Victor retired from Psychotherapy.net in 2025.  Learn more about him and his artwork at sfpsychologist.com.

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