Full Course Description
Teaching Clients How to Set Boundaries That Stick
Good boundaries increase feelings of empowerment and safety, helping our clients achieve more integrated brain states, access creativity, solve problems, and find the time, energy, and bandwidth to do things we love. But what’s the difference between setting a boundary and trying to control someone? What if someone doesn’t respect or pay attention to our boundaries? How do you set boundaries in a healthy way? Many of our clients need help practicing and implementing the essential relational skill of boundary setting, which is rarely taught at home, in school, or in the workplace. In this workshop, you’ll explore recordings of real clients learning to set boundaries in session. You’ll also have a chance to practice boundary-setting exercises that can support your work with your own clients, within their different cultural and family structures and social spaces. You’ll discover how to:
- Use culturally affirming strategies to help clients deliver boundary messages in a way that incorporates kindness toward others while aligning with their needs
- Guide clients to discover their own inner wisdom related to boundaries and set them in their life
- Prepare your clients for pushback from others when setting boundaries (a common issue)
- Support your clients in following through on their boundaries
Program Information
Objectives
- Identify practices that use state dependent learning to help create brain change for clients.
- Utilize language that supports clients in personal exploration of culturally affirming boundary practices.
- Describe at least three techniques clients can use to improve boundary-setting with people in their life.
- Describe an intervention that supports clients in dealing with pushback on boundaries.
Outline
- The essential relational skill of boundary setting
- The roles of neuroplasticity and state dependent learning
- The critical steps of deliberate practice and how to use them
- The most effective language for supporting clients in exploring culturally affirming boundary practices
- Defining healthy boundaries through the lens of intersectionality
- Effective language that supports client increasing self-discovery and building self-trust
- The six steps to setting external boundaries
- Interventions for helping clients deal with pushback on boundaries
- Integrating self-compassion into boundary setting
- How to best prepare your clients for en vivo implementation of boundaries
- Risks and limitations
Target Audience
- Psychologists
- Physicians
- Nurses
- Counselors
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Social Workers
Copyright :
03/22/2024
Breaking the Cycle of Unhealthy Family Relationships
For our adult clients with difficult parents, there’s a constant struggle between maintaining connection and protecting themselves from getting hurt.
Especially when there have been years of parental abuse, neglect, addiction, or mental illness, it's easy for therapy to get stuck on processing the past...
...and never get to the specific steps our clients can take NOW to feel better.
The key to healthier relationships is teaching our clients how to establish boundaries.
And now, you can learn top tools for better boundaries directly from relationship expert and acclaimed clinician and author, Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW.
She’ll give you practical, easy-to-implement interventions that you can use right away to help your clients set better boundaries and transform their interactions with difficulty family members.
PLUS, don’t miss in-depth conversations between Nedra and key experts in the field, including Joshua Coleman, PhD, Karl Pillemer, PhD, and more!
Watch this is a rare opportunity and hear from four leading experts discuss the most crucial clinical topics!
Program Information
Objectives
- Distinguish the six types of boundaries in order to inform case formulation and treatment planning
- Catalogue the benefits and consequences of healthy and unhealthy boundaries
- Employ the eight steps of boundary setting when working with adults in individual therapy
- Appraise relationship dynamics to determine the need to address boundary issues
- Distinguish between effective and ineffective strategies for working with clients that struggle with boundaries
- Debate at least three risks involved when working with boundaries
Outline
Part 1: Understanding Boundaries in Parent-Child Relationships
Part 2: Assessing boundary issues with your clients
Part 3: A Step-by-step guide to teaching boundaries and becoming a boundary-centered practitioner
Part 4: Conversations with Experts
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Interview 1 – Lindsay Gibson, PsyD
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Interview 2 – Joshua Coleman, PhD
Part 5: Clinical Considerations
Target Audience
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Psychologists
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Psychiatrists
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Social Workers
Copyright :
03/27/2023
The Codependency Treatment Guide: CBT, Somatic Strategies and More to Disentangle Clients from Dysfunctional Relationships and Recover Self
You see these clients all the time. Preoccupied with others, people with co-dependence issues desperately try to please, manage, or fix those in their closest relationships.
After years of putting their own needs aside these clients become stuck in externally focused self-sacrificing patterns they don’t even recognize. By the time they show up in your office with anxiety, depression, and significant relationship issues they’ve completely lost their true selves.
But knowing what to do with these clients in therapy can be exasperating as again and again they shift the focus of sessions away from themselves and toward others. Their unwillingness to drop down into their own emotions, thoughts, and actions can leave you feeling demoralized and drained as you spin your wheels session after fruitless session. If you’re not careful, you can end up joining the client as they look to solve their own problems by solving the problems of others.
Nancy Johnston has been a therapist for over 40 years and is an expert in the field of codependent relationships. The author of Disentangle: When You’ve Lost Your Self in Someone Else, Nancy has helped thousands of clients extricate themselves from toxic codependency, connect with self, and live with more peace and confidence.
She’ll share the clinical tools and strategies you need to help clients break free from codependency, better balance their care of self and others, and achieve self-recovery.
Full of instantly useable cognitive strategies, somatic techniques, visual tools, case studies, and exercises, you’ll be able to:
- Move your clients’ focus from external to internal for improved therapeutic results
- Help clients face the realities of their relationships so they can make real changes
- Improve clients’ ability to set healthy boundaries and let go of what they cannot control
- Show your clients how they can take control of their emotions and start responding instead of reacting
- Foster self-empowerment from the very first session
- And much more!
You’ve seen codependent clients in your practice for so long now. Don’t pass on this expert-led training so you can achieve incredible results and set clients on the path to living life for themselves.
Purchase now!
Program Information
Objectives
- Learn to identify the intra/interpersonal dynamics of codependency in clients presenting with anxiety, depression, and relationship problems and understand how codependency/loss of self in others can be foundational to worry, exhaustion, resentment, entrapment, sadness, hopelessness, and health problems.
- Determine the origins of codependent behaviors to support case conceptualization.
- Utilize mindfulness techniques to increase codependent clients’ awareness of their own feelings.
- Learn more than 15 cognitive strategies to develop and sustain self-recovery, including increased awareness of thoughts, feelings, and behaviors, self-monitoring, skill building, corrections of thoughts, psychoeducation through multiple visual tools and bulleted lists, and the development of daily practices.
- Use present moment awareness training to help clients tolerate frustration and respond rather than react.
- Use acceptance exercises that help clients let go of what they cannot control.
Outline
Codependence: Losing Oneself in Others
- Conceptualizing codependence as loss of self in someone else
- Developmental sources of codependence
- Codependent behaviors vs. the label
- Identifying codependence – how codependent clients look in therapy
- Research, risks and treatment limitations
Intake and Assessment of Clients with Codependent Behaviors
- Clinical dynamics to notice as you use your standard intake
- Using the Holyoake Codependency Index
- Relationship patterns/themes to look for
- Establishment of mutuality in treatment work
- Client goal setting
- Case Study: 24 year-old in a serious relationship with a dominating partner
Psychoeducation and Early Sessions:
Set the Stage to Shift Clients’ Focus from External to Internal
- Tools for educating the client about external vs. internal focus
- How to avoid becoming the client’s external source of direction
- Strategies to encourage self-empowerment from the very first session
- Addressing clinical challenges and codependence in self
- Case Study: Continue with 24 year-old feeling dominated by partner
Self, Others, and the Relationship:
Family of Origin and Parts Work to Help Clients Face Illusions and See the Realities
- Influences on self: Individual, family systems, and social/cultural
- Parts of self that emerged from family-of-origin experiences
- Visual tools to teach relationships between self and other(s)
- Gathering your clients’ trauma history
- Case Study: 50 year-old mother of an alcoholic adult son who chronically relapses
Somatic and Cognitive Techniques:
Enhance Codependent Clients’ Awareness of Body, Mind, Feelings and Thoughts
- Mindfulness techniques to increase awareness of body, mind and feelings
- Bottom-up grounding tools to notice self in the moment
- Cognitive strategies to increase awareness of thoughts
- Exercises to help clients be with their feelings in safe, manageable ways
- Tools clients can use to intervene on their own behalf
Build Self-Competence in Codependent Clients:
Strategies to Set Healthy Boundaries, Quiet Guilt, Manage Anxiety and More
- Addressing the grief of accepting the realities of self, others and situation
- Respond vs. react - present moment awareness to help clients tolerate frustration
- Mindful breathing techniques for anxiety management
- Set healthy boundaries with “I” statements
- Tools for quieting guilty thoughts
- Case Study: Continue with 50 year-old mother of relapsing adult son
Increasing Self-Empowerment and Self-Attunement:
Exercises and Practices That Show Clients They Can Count on Themselves
- Acceptance exercises that help clients let go of what they cannot control
- Show clients how to plan with self in mind
- Practice acting on goals
- Developing daily practices for self-awareness and self-responsiveness
- Returning to self as a secure base and an anchor in the storms and delights of life
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Addiction Counselors
- Psychologists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
09/09/2024
Boundary Setting in Clinical Practice: The Best Ethical Practices
Are you having trouble saying “No” to clients?
Do you struggle with establishing and maintaining healthy boundaries?
Do you avoid setting boundaries for fear of losing a client?
As clinicians, we come face to face with “gray areas” on a daily basis and skate around potential issues that could put our businesses, clinical work, or clients in jeopardy. We struggle with setting boundaries personally and professionally and it ultimately has a negative impact on the clients we serve.
Talisa Beasley, MA, LPC, will use activities, vignettes, and practical business experience to discuss the boundary issues and dilemmas that exist (and are often overlooked and swept aside) that could impact your business, your bottom line, and your clients. Develop the confidence needed to address complex boundary issues in clinical practice.
Program Information
Objectives
- Determine how the NASW, APA, and ACA Code of Ethics applies to boundary setting in private practice/clinical practice.
- Analyze ethical dilemmas clinicians face surrounding boundary setting with respect to utilizing technology with clients in clinical practice.
- Articulate the financial burdens clinicians experience that could cause ethical dilemmas in clinical practice.
- Utilize ethical practices to ensure client safety, maintain confidentiality and obtain informed consent when utilizing telemental health services.
- Determine how practitioner impairment influences the therapeutic relationship and identify ethical strategies to minimize the potential impact on the client.
- Formulate clear ethical guidelines to address the potential for a dual relationship with a client in a clinical setting.
Outline
Ethical and moral principles regarding boundary setting
- Levels of ethical practice
- Ethical decision making
The need for boundaries in a clinical/private practice setting
- What is needed in a sound informed consent
- Boundary crossing and the necessity of dual relationships
- What healthy boundaries look like
- Boundary tips
Technology and boundary setting
- Keeping clients safe as you prepare for the use of telemental health
- Social media myths and boundary setting
- Marketing and boundary setting
- Challenges business owners face in setting solid business enhancing boundaries
- Client retention: When to refer and to whom
Ethical financial dilemmas and boundary setting
- Addressing money: Relationship with money and money beliefs
- The importance of ethical fee setting
- Knowing your WHY and business planning
How practitioner impairment impacts the therapeutic relationship
- Boundary setting in self-care
- Critical stress factors clinicians face
- Self-confidence and using the word NO to set boundaries
- How burnout, vicarious trauma and compassion fatigue impacts the therapeutic relationship
Explore positive outcomes in private-practice/clinical work
- Benefits of boundary setting to the clinician, client, community and the profession
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Psychiatrists
- Social Workers
- Psychotherapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Therapists
- Art Therapists
- Marriage & Family Therapists
- Case Managers
- Nurses
- Physicians
- Other Mental Health Professionals
Copyright :
03/14/2025