The Therapeutic 'Aha!': 10 Strategies for Getting Your Clients Unstuck

It is a perennial challenge for therapists to be effective with clients, particularly when therapy gets stuck or stalled. Drawing on new insights from brain science, this presentation delivers 10 practical, creative strategies you can use with people who are "stuck" to clear internal conflicts, elicit motivation, and engage clients more fully in the change process.

More specifically, you’ll discover that the key to triggering “Aha!” moments is to spark a person's emotional brain, which learns through felt experiences, not rational discussion. Learn how you can craft such transformational, felt experiences in your sessions as Courtney Armstrong shares new spins on interventions that utilize attunement, metaphor, imagery, storytelling, humor, play, music, and movement.

Clinicians who attend this web conference will come away with 10 simple, powerful techniques that can be put to use immediately to:

• Dissolve resistance for people who seem guarded or unmotivated.
• Evoke intrinsic motivation and confidence for people who feel worthless, helpless, or hopeless.
• Locate and resolve internal conflicts for people who feel ambivalent about change.
• Stop people from getting hijacked by their emotions and clear the root of recurring patterns.
• Relieve your own sense of frustration, boredom, or “stuckness,” and feel more energized in your sessions.

This intermediate, instructional level web conference is designed to help clinicians:

1. Classify areas of the prefrontal cortex and the emotional brain that are involved in integrating emotion and reason.
2. Identify one key communication strategy that fosters attunement, strengthens the therapeutic alliance, and diffuses resistance.
3. Use the emerging understanding of memory reconsolidation to design interventions with more transformational impact.
4. Describe at least two ways to utilize imagery, music, playfulness, or movement to regulate emotions and elicit intrinsic motivation.

If you have any questions or concerns about this web conference, or would like more information, please contact us here.

Event Reviews from Members

A great guide for asking questions that help clients explore meaning and past experiences. - Mary A. Belote, LCPC

I thought this presentation was fantastic! - Sherri Williams, MSED, LPC, NCC

The workshop was a great source of information and an excellent use of my time! - Julie Kotler, LCPC, LCPAT, ATR-BC

Continuing Education (CE) Information

Two CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

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Mental health professionals who are not members can access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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