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Experiential Techniques for Getting Your Sessions Unstuck
by Victor Yalom
Webinar Series: Deepening Your Clinical Skills
Although it is one of the most widely used and taught questions in psychotherapy, “how do you feel,” often leads to silence and impasse rather than insight and change. In this unique and dynamic webinar, Victor Yalom demonstrates how to combine focused case consultation and here-and-now therapeutic techniques to help you go beyond “how do you feel?” with your own clients so they can make real and lasting changes in their lives.
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Therapists can become too comfortable doing the same things over and over again, asking the same questions, and falling into what James Bugental called the content trap. This is especially common when working with clients who are locked into rigid patterns of thinking and acting at the expense of a more fully lived emotional experience. What therapists need in these instances are both effective ways to move beyond words to help clients explore their own inner experience, and skills to do the same within themselves as they work with these stuck clients. This is exactly what you will learn as you watch Victor Yalom model vulnerability, use here-and-now process comments, prompt clients to connect to their inner world of emotions, and bring his whole self into the therapeutic moment.
Client Tim lived through childhood trauma and struggles to connect emotionally with others. Danielle, his therapist, is both uncomfortable around deeper emotional expression, and, in her words, “pushing Tim too hard.” As a result, she has reached an impasse with him and decides to consult with Yalom. In a series of riveting demonstrations of his work with Danielle, Tim, and later both together, you will see Yalom directly yet supportively guide them through the process of emotional exploration and expression using here-and-now reflections, somatic awareness techniques, and exploration of parallel process.
Client Tim lived through childhood trauma and struggles to connect emotionally with others. Danielle, his therapist, is both uncomfortable around deeper emotional expression, and, in her words, “pushing Tim too hard.” As a result, she has reached an impasse with him and decides to consult with Yalom. In a series of riveting demonstrations of his work with Danielle, Tim, and later both together, you will see Yalom directly yet supportively guide them through the process of emotional exploration and expression using here-and-now reflections, somatic awareness techniques, and exploration of parallel process.
Psychotherapy.net Webinar Series
Deepening Your Clinical Skills
Develop tools for building and strengthening the single most important factor in improving client outcomes - the therapeutic relationship. This Psychotherapy.net webinar series focuses on interventions and clinical skills you can use to improve client outcomes regardless of approach or therapeutic issues. Through case consultations, clinical sessions. and demonstrations you'll learn...
- Interventions for moving stuck clients forward
- Techniques for maintaining rapport while challenging clients to dig deeper
- In-session exercises for building connections and heightening awareness
- Tips for honing your therapeutic presence
Available only to our members and subscribers. Find out how to access this video for individual use, for more than one person using multiple-user access, or for use in academic institutions.
Length of video: 01:28:03
English subtitles available
Group ISBN-10 #: 1-60124-785-0
Group ISBN-13 #: 978-1-60124-785-8
Victor Yalom, PhD is the founder and resident cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net. He maintained a busy private practice in San Francisco for over 25 years, but now sees only a few clients, devoting the bulk of his time to creating new training videos for Psychotherapy.net. He has produced over 100 videos, conducted workshops in existential-humanistic and group therapy in the US, Mexico, and China, and currently leads consultation groups for therapists. More info on Victor and his artwork and sculpture at sfpsychologist.com.Victor Yalom was compensated for his/her/their contribution. None of his/her/their books or additional offerings are required for any of the Psychotherapy.net content. Should such materials be references, it is as an additional resource.
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