Videos

In this 3-volume masterclass, you’ll learn powerful techniques to help clients accelerate the internal discovery process so they can gain additional resources to tackle the problems bringing them to therapy.

Traditional child psychotherapy training has focused almost exclusively on working with the child, relegating parents to a secondary role and marginalizing systemic issues. In addition, by the time parents either seek out or are mandated to enter therapy for their child, hurt, shame, guilt, and exhaustion have already tattered the fabric of attachment bonds, making engagement with them all the more important. Centering the clinical work around the child to the neglect of the parents’ needs, attachment styles, and personal histories, places an unrealistic burden of responsibility on the child to be the change agent.

In contrast, expanding the clinical frame to include the parent’s attachment histories and styles, as well as their capacity for play can provide the therapist with the insight and tools for helping parents to be the secure base their child needs to flourish. Inclusion of the parents from the beginning in their child’s therapy can also focus clinical attention where it rightfully belongs––on the resources and reparative-healing potential within the family system. Additionally, utilizing expressive-creative, therapeutic activities with the whole family can re-direct healing efforts from words to healing language of play.

In viewing this webinar, Clair Mellenthin will teach you the core elements of Attachment-Centered Play including:   

• assessing the unique qualities of the parents’ attachment style
• modeling presence, limit setting, and basic play skills
• when and when not to invite the parents into the room
• how to orient the play to effectively include parents, structure interactions between parents and children in the room, and tap into family dynamics to support healthy change

By engaging with her in the experiential activities, you will also learn how to:

• reduce your reliance on words and talking in favor of creating and doing
• to use the “Family Play Genogram” and “Two Hands” techniques in therapy
• shift your clinical lens from fixing child behavior to repairing relationships  

So, put on your play clothes, switch your lens from the individual to the system, and from ‘talking about’ to ‘doing,’ and be prepared to learn invaluable skills you can use in your own work to help repair, rebuild, and create security for all members of the family. 

To work effectively with migrant clients, clinicians must be attuned to the profound challenges these clients face personally, socially, and existentially, and the hopelessness faced by clients and clinicians alike. In this webinar replay, bicultural clinician and trainer, Liliana Baylon, will provide you with a deeper understanding of the needs of migrant clients, as well as tools to strengthen your clinical efficacy while avoiding burnout and compassion fatigue.

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.

Couples therapy is challenging, but far more so when partners are locked into highly charged seemingly intractable conflicts. This webinar featuring Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT) trainer Scott Woolley, PhD, will provide you with five highly effective, straightforward EFT-based steps that you can use with your own couples clients regardless of your therapeutic approach.   

Traditional therapy typically relies on a one-size-fits-all orientation, comprised of formulaic, unimaginative protocols. In contrast, this dynamic webinar featuring Dr. Travis Heath delves into the transformative principles and practices of Narrative Therapy—showing you how to go beyond cut-and-dried techniques with clients so they can move towards meaningful change.  

We all have clients with whom we’ve worked for weeks, months, or even years who don’t make significant progress because they are stuck in rigid, and self-defeating defensive patterns that undermine personal growth and relational happiness. Learn through clinical demonstrations by Victor Yalom and Orah Krug how to draw awareness to and loosen the hold of these restrictive patterns so clients can live more fully and connectedly.

Working in the here-and-now is one of the more powerful but misunderstood therapeutic skills. Learn through extensive clinical demonstrations how to use the space between you and your client to energize sessions and help them increase their interpersonal awareness and capacity for connection.

In this dynamic webinar replay, Psychotherapy.net’s Travis Heath and renowned clinicians Tom Stone Carlson and Sanni Paljakka will help you reimagine your own practice with Contemporary Narrative Therapy concepts and techniques that help meet the changed and changing needs of clients in contemporary society.  

Traditional manualized interventions often lock clinicians into a mechanized, technique-driven approach with their clients. In this discussion between Victor Yalom and Dr. Steven Hayes, learn how to go beyond constraining protocols by focusing on underlying therapeutic processes and see therapeutic changes happen in real time using the Acceptance and Commitment Therapy model.

Asking “How do you feel?” is a typical way we try to help clients expand their internal awareness. But unfortunately, it’s often a dead-end, and many therapists don’t know how to follow up. In this masterclass, you’ll learn powerful techniques to help clients accelerate the internal discovery process so they can gain additional resources to tackle the problems bringing them to therapy. 

Travis Heath presents his work with three clients who have stood up to racism in their own unique ways and shares contemporary techniques to help your clients move beyond constricting narratives about pathology, race, and identity, to live in more authentic and meaningful ways. 

Is it possible to get the diagnostic data you need during the first session in a way that leaves clients feeling like they want to come back for a second session? This video takes a close look at how the DSM-5-TR and the diagnostic process can be used to improve mental healthcare. Through step-by-step clinical demonstrations, you’ll develop client-oriented diagnostic interviewing skills that lay the foundation for a strong therapeutic alliance and successful course of treatment. 

The best clinicians seamlessly combine diagnostic interviewing and rapport-building during the initial session, and in this series, you’ll learn how to do just that. Through rich discussions and clinical demonstrations, you’ll learn how to gather the information you need while building the alliance you want. 

Deficit-based theories and techniques often pathologize neurological differences commonly associated with Autism and ADHD, resulting in poor mental health outcomes. Learn how to help young neurodivergent clients thrive by using neurodiversity-affirming play practices that build therapeutic connection through empowerment and collaboration — all while having fun.  

How can you bring yourself to the room more fully as a person, offering more than just empathy? Discover how to become an active participant in the process of moving clients beyond the limits of their worlds as they know them. Using a Contemporary Narrative Therapy approach, you can help clients trace the profound impact of systemic racism, and redefine not just their own stories, but the limits they have set for themselves.

What if, rather than focusing on presenting problems, symptoms, diagnoses and other traditional approaches to working with clients, we embraced a culturally democratic approach that invites clients to speak on behalf of their own healing? Discover how to go beyond listening and emphasizing, and learn how to collaborate with clients using their existing strengths, traditions and heritage.

This is your chance to sit in on a conversation with art therapy pioneer, Judy Rubin, PhD, and Psychotherapy.net founder, Victor Yalom as they discuss the power of artistic expression in therapy. Dr. Rubin shares stories of her life’s work as an art therapist, including techniques and various media she used to help clients get in touch with themselves. 

In this third and final session with Heather, Victor Yalom continues to work in the here-and-now of the therapeutic relationship to help her access and explore deep emotions which relate to her therapeutic goals. As you'll see, focusing on what’s happening in real time in the therapist-client relationship requires courage and vulnerability from both therapist and client.

There is growing awareness that the traditional deficit-based therapeutic mindset that pathologizes neurological differences such as autism and ADHD often lead to poor mental health outcomes. Learn how to help young neurodivergent clients thrive by using neurodiversity-affirming play practices that build therapeutic connection and emphasize collaboration and validation. Empower neurodivergent children and teens with play interventions tailored to support their unique needs and celebrate their strengths all while having fun.