Moving Forward: Helping Individuals in Therapy Get Unstuck

People can become stuck with the issues they face in their career, family, and life in general. Sometimes they are stuck because their situations are highly complex, or they may be paralyzed by fear. Unfortunately, certain elements of standard talk therapy can inadvertently promote stuck mindset and behavior rather than alleviate it. When clinicians over-focus on the individual in therapy and their problems, or on the dynamics that initially led to the problem, they may disempower the individual and reinforce their feelings of hopelessness. 

In this two-hour continuing education web conference, Dr. Lani Nelson-Zlupko will explain why clinicians need tools to help individuals in therapy externalize their problems. She will identify empirically-backed strategies for forward momentum and share decades of experience in research and diverse clinical settings as well as recent findings in neuroscience and biochemistry. 

This web conference is designed to educate clinicians about the common factors contributing to stuck behavior as well as outline effective strategies for forward momentum. Dr. Nelson-Zlupko will highlight identifiable pitfalls across a wide dimension of common life problems involving relationships, health, parenting, addiction, or finances that can make matters worse. She will describe ways to avoid these pitfalls and share strategies that help people face their problems and move forward.

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

1. Identify common mindsets and behavior patterns in stuck individuals with diverse life problems and diagnoses.
2. Discuss the neuroscience and biochemical processes that contribute to feeling and staying stuck.
3. Recognize how standard talk therapy can prevent stuck individuals from moving forward as well as contribute to keeping them stuck.
4. Identify common life problem pitfalls that can exacerbate feelings of being stuck.
5. Apply effective strategies for helping stuck individuals move forward.

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

Continuing Education (CE) Information

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

GoodTherapy.org is 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, provider #1352, is approved to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Organizations, not individual courses, are approved as ACE providers. State and provincial regulatory boards have the final authority to determine whether an individual course may be accepted for continuing education credit. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this course. ACE provider approval period: 3/30/2022 – 3/30/2025. Social workers completing this course receive 2 continuing education credits.

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.

GoodTherapy.org, LLC is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed marriage and family therapists #MFT-0022 and for licensed mental health counselors #MHC-0031.

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

Premium or Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no cost. Not yet a Premium or Pro Member? Mental health professionals can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50.

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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