Are Your Clients Brilliant at People Pleasing But Long to Be Authentic?
Presented by Lynda Klau, PhD

Web Conference Description

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung

How can we best help our clients heal the people pleaser within and learn how to think, speak, and act from their authentic selves? We begin by articulating the roots of people pleasing, defining authenticity, differentiating the two different paradigms that “pleasers” and “authentics” live in, and identifying the essential variables that facilitate the development of being authentic in our work with clients.

We can help our clients make this journey to the extent that we are conscious of the people pleaser/authenticity relationship in ourselves. In this Web Conference we will focus on ourselves, our issues, and what we can develop in order to become increasingly effective with our clients. Ultimately we will be concurrently working on ourselves and our clients. For example:

- How many of us want our clients to like us?
- How many of us do not say what we truly feel for fear of losing a client?
- How many of us feel abandoned when a client leaves therapy?

This Web Conference is designed to help clinicians:
1) Attune to our clients’ subtexts;
2) Open to our clients' negative feelings towards us, or in other words hold their negative transference;
3) Increase our awareness of our counter-transference when clients are very angry at us, hate us, leave therapy abruptly, act out their neediness, etc.;
4) Differentiate and Integrate—to hold and differentiate our own “pleaser” and “authentic”, as well as our clients, and then be able to link these differentiated parts. This results in increased integration and well-being for ourselves and our clients.

If you have any questions about this Web Conference, or would like more information, please contact us here.