Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, Volume 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery
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Overview
Victor Yalom has spent 30 years studying and producing videos with many of the legendary therapists of our time. Now he takes all he has learned from these encounters and shares the most powerful pearls of clinical wisdom from these masters.
In Volume 1 of Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, Yalom and renowned clinician, Orah Krug, demonstrate simple yet powerful techniques to quickly help clients discover new things about themselves, which can unlock new possibilities for your clients and empower them to enact the changes they desire. You’ll observe Yalom and Krug in therapy sessions with real clients, so you can experience what these techniques look like in practice and discover how to apply step-by-step. Most importantly, these fundamental skills can complement all therapeutic approaches and are effective with all populations.
Clients come to therapy in pain, unsure how to resolve their problems. Often too much time is wasted with clients talking about themselves instead of actually discovering new things about themselves. But this doesn’t have to be the case. Watch how Yalom and Krug direct their clients inward—leading them into unexplored aspects of their inner lives, including emotions, thoughts, bodily sensations, imagery, and more. You’ll learn specific techniques such as directing clients inward; persistently nudging them to go deeper and making process comments which amplify clients’ awareness. From the first session to the last, you can use these skills to help your clients engage in the internal discovery process that is at the heart of psychotherapy. Volume 1 features in-session videos of four real clients which, along with extensive commentary and discussions, bring to life powerful ideas that can greatly enhance the effectiveness of your work.
What’s Included
You’ll learn:
- How to model risk-taking and vulnerability to support client growth
- What you can do to move sessions beyond, “How do you feel?”
- Process comments for deepening clients’ access to their emotions
- Tips for using self-disclosure to inform and empower clients
- Prompts to help intellectualized clients access their intrapersonal worlds
- How to use the therapeutic relationship to help clients with interpersonal issues
Searching Inward
Although not a new concept, the process of searching—directing clients’ attention inward—is a skill that many clients need to be taught, and many therapists are unsure how to lead the way. Yalom and Krug show you simple but powerful techniques for helping clients navigate their world of emotions.
You’ll learn how to…
- Facilitate your client’s journey inward
- Connect clients to their inner world of emotions
- Help highly intellectualized clients build an emotional vocabulary
Process Comments
Process comments draw attention to what is experienced but unsaid and can include such things as noting a client’s facial expressions, body language or tone of voice. Yalom and Krug demonstrate how using process comments can lead clients to some important places within themselves.
You’ll learn how to…
- Deepen your clients’ access to their intrapersonal world
- Use the therapeutic relationship to help clients with interpersonal issues
- Reveal the emotions behind the words your clients are speaking
Beyond Technique: Presence
Tools and techniques are vital, but underlying therapist presence is critical. Here Yalom and Krug teach you how to bring your whole self into the room and be fully present with clients.
You’ll learn how to…
- Model openness and vulnerability to help clients learn to do the same
- Empower clients to take risks in their own lives
- Use the here-and-now to avoid and repair ruptures
About the Experts
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.
Disclosures
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
What you get in this course
Real Sessions
4 hours of videos featuring real clients in session
Therapist Commentary
Voiceover commentaries and discussions for behind-the-scenes insight
Continuing Education
4 CE credits available
Bonus Resources
Supplemental tools and activities to consolidate learning and promote lateral thinking
“This is an example of master clinicians showing us the “dance of psychotherapy” — artfully combining skills, expertise, and the therapist’s own humanity.”
“This video is a vital source for supervision and for teaching advance skills courses in mental health disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, counseling, rehabilitation, and social work. I strongly recommend this video without reservations.”
“The content shines in its practical demonstrations of client self-exploration techniques, showing real therapists skillfully guiding conversations past superficial exchanges. Rich with detailed session excerpts and expert commentary, this resource offers both newcomers and seasoned therapists concrete ways to sharpen their clinical approach.”
