RELATIONSHIP STRATEGIES TO TREAT CHALLENGING CLIENTS
Monday, September 18, 2023
Clarion Inn, Elmira, NY
Monday, September 18, 2023
Clarion Inn, Elmira, NY
This practical workshop, led by Dr. Robert T. Muller, a leading expert on trauma therapy and globally acclaimed author of the psychotherapy bestseller, Trauma & the Avoidant Client, is aimed at building our understanding of the psychotherapeutic relationship with challenging trauma clients.
As therapists, while we try to maintain a strong therapeutic relationship, in practice, this is easier said than done. Trauma clients struggle to trust the therapist: Many minimize their own traumatic experiences or become help-rejecting. Others rush into the work, seeking a “quick fix, “despite a long history of interpersonal trauma. Drawing upon attachment theory and research, and upon a wealth of clinical experience. Dr. Muller illustrates how to work with such hard-to-treat clients, how to find points of entry, and ways to make contact. Using a relational, psychodynamic approach, we explore strategies for developing the therapeutic relationship to help the client regain a sense of trust in others. We look at therapeutic techniques through which the client is encouraged to take interpersonal risks, to mourn losses, and to face vulnerabilities. Dr. Muller follows the ups and downs of the therapy relationship with trauma survivors and specifically looks at:
We also explore different choices therapists make in navigating the relationship -choices that often have a strong impact on outcomes. Recovery from trauma is a complicated process. When clients reveal too much, too soon, they may feel worse -making the pacing of therapy critical. Here too, the key is in the therapist-client relationship. Dr. Muller walks us through the relational approaches that help pace the process of opening up -so that clients find the experience helpful, not harmful. |
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