Powerful Ideas for Developing Your Best Therapeutic Self
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Victor Yalom, PhD
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Powerful Ideas for Developing Your Best Therapeutic Self

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. Video length: 11m
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Being self-aware, comfortable sitting with difficult emotions, and truly present for our clients are essential skills that cannot be learned from books and classes. Yet these are key to forming strong therapeutic alliances and promoting meaningful growth and change.

So what can you do to continue developing this critical experiential skill? Join Psychotherapy.net CEO and Founder, Victor Yalom, as he outlines simple, actionable steps you can take to hone your clinical self so that you can be maximally effective with your clients. Whether you’re an established clinician with years of experience or a new practitioner just starting out, this video is sure to spark your passion for developing a more dynamic, authentic self so that you can better connect with and support your clients along their therapeutic journey.

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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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