You’ll learn how to:

• Model risk-taking and vulnerability to heighten and authenticity and support client growth
• Discuss the benefits of working in here-and-now and how it relates to clients’ “real world” relationships
• Use process comments for deepening clients’ access to their emotions
• Practice relational patience and presence, engaging clients with empathy and curiosity
• Prompts to help intellectualized clients access their intrapersonal worlds
• Identify clients’ common protective styles and apply tailored interventions based on these patterns

Volume 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery
Watch Yalom and Krug as they demonstrate simple, effective interventions that quickly help clients discover new things about themselves and empower them to enact the changes they desire.

You’ll learn the importance of…

• The process of searching inward to connect clients to their inner world of emotions
• Using process comments to draw attention to what is experienced but unsaid and to reveal the emotions behind the words your clients are speaking
• Why underlying therapist presence is critical and how modeling openness and vulnerability helps clients learn to do the same

Volume 2: Working in the Here-and-Now
Explore the power of using the here-and-now—which shifts the focus from discussing past experiences or intellectualizing about issues to actively engaging with what is unfolding in the therapeutic relationship in real time.

You’ll learn…

• The when and how of bringing here-and-now work into sessions
• How to use the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for improving client interpersonal functioning
• Effective use of self-disclosure to inform and empower clients with in-the-moment feedback

Volume 3: Working with Stuck Clients
Designed to help therapists address recurring frustrations and clinical roadblocks that often stall therapy, Yalom and Krug tackle the nuanced challenge of working with “stuck” clients – those individuals who have long-standing protective patterns that obstruct deeper emotional work.

You’ll learn how to…

• Spot protective patterns early to uncover the real source of therapeutic stuckness
• Identify and name recurring client metaphors or stories that reveal hidden protective mechanisms
• Use process comments and here-and-now statements to deepen clients’ awareness of how others experience them

Victor Yalom, PhD is the founder and resident cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net. He has produced over 100 psychotherapy videos featuring many of the luminaries of our field, including Sue Johnson, Marsha Linehan, William Miller, Reid Wilson, and his father Irvin Yalom. He is a licensed psychologist with over 35 years of clinical experience and has conducted workshops in the US, China, Mexico and online. More info on Victor and his artwork and metal sculpture at sfpsychologist.com.

Orah T. Krug, PhD, is recognized in her field as a master clinician, supervisor and author. Her dedication to training the next generation of therapists led her to create Krug Counseling, Inc., where she trains and supervises the group’s clinicians, provides experiential therapy for individuals and couples, and leads consultation groups for licensed therapists. For further information about Orah Krug, Krug Counseling and the consultation groups visit krugcounseling.com.

General Disclosure

This Disclosure Statement has been designed to meet accreditation standards; Psychotherapy.net does its best to mitigate potential conflicts of interest and eliminate bias in all areas of content. Experts are compensated for their contributions to our training videos; while some of them have published works, the purchase of additional materials are not required for any Psychotherapy.net training. Each experts’ specific disclosures can be found in their biography.

Psychotherapy.net offers trainings for cost but has no financial or other relationships to disclose.

Therapist Disclosure

Victor Yalom and Orah Krug were compensated for their contribution to this course. None of their books or additional offerings are required for this course. Should such materials be referenced, it is only as additional resources.

Psychotherapy.net defines ineligible companies as those whose primary business is producing, marketing, selling, re-selling, or distributing healthcare products used by or on patients. There is no minimum financial threshold; individuals must disclose all financial relationships, regardless of the amount, with ineligible companies. We ask that all contributors disclose any and all financial relationships they have with any ineligible companies whether the individual views them as relevant to the education or not.

Additionally, there is no commercial support for this activity. None of the planners or any employee at Psychotherapy.net who has worked on this educational activity has relevant financial relationship(s) to disclose with ineligible companies.

Learning Objectives:

• Cultivate your therapeutic presence to facilitate client growth and discovery
• Utilize therapeutic process comments to deepen client emotional awareness
• Improve client interpersonal functioning using the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst
• Capitalize on therapeutic self-disclosure to inform and empower clients
• Explain the therapeutic role of the here-and-now in deepening client engagement
• Utilize the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for improving client interpersonal functioning
• Apply the skills of therapist self-disclosure to inform and empower clients
• Create here-and-now interventions which are aligned with client’s goals
• Describe the core protective patterns that stuck clients present in therapy
• Discuss the personal and professional challenges of working with stuck clients
• Utilize effective therapeutic interventions to help stuck clients move forward