When our clients are distrustful or skeptical of our work, it can create difficult barriers to healing. To us, this can sometimes feel like resistance.
But is resistance even a valid notion?
What may at first seem like opposition, can often signal our client’s deepest struggles.
The difficult part is seeing beyond the “push back” to take in the important message our client is telling us, so we can work with instead of against their energy.
So we asked the top 20 experts in our field how they worked with their most challenging clients. We were surprised by the deep dive of their answers.
They gave us useful skills that can radically shift this kind of resistance and actually help reverse a client’s ambivalence to change.
That’s why we made. . .
Nicam – How to Work with a Client’s Resistance
Part 1: How to Work with Reluctance Linked to Attachment Issues
How a client’s movement vocabulary can reveal an inner conflict
One way to help clients reestablish a sense of identity in their body
How to approach implicit memories that fuel a client’s avoidance
Part 2: How to Resolve the Core Threat That’s Fostering Your Client’s Opposition
How to change a combative session into a collaborative one
How to isolate the main threat that’s feeding a client’s rigidity
The simple but powerful way validation impacts an avoidant mindset
One Hidden Fear That May Be Driving Your Client’s Reluctance
The counterintuitive reason your client may be avoiding change
The unique way guilt affects a client’s feelings of unwillingness
How to Help Clients Move Out of a Defensive State
The critical reason some clients fear calmness
One physiological change that can alter how we interact with others
The specific breathing pattern that can trap a client in a defensive state
3 Skills to Expand a Client’s Openness to Change
One personality type that is most prone to challenging the therapy
A 3-step action plan to foster change without triggering opposition
How to promote a healthier mindset that resists barriers to growth
How to Work with the Deep Vulnerabilities That Keep a Client from Change
The crucial message that can soften a client’s protective parts
The specific way to introduce hope in the healing process (so it’s actually received)
How to work with “rational deformity” to help clients build authentic connections
The silent vulnerability that’s most often behind a client’s reluctance
How to Avoid Misdiagnosing Clients as Unmotivated
The key factor that falsely presents as a lack of motivation
The vital message your client is giving you when they don’t follow your advice
The important difference between resistance and rigidity
How a client’s specific cognitive style can keep them stuck in avoidance
How to Sell Behavior Change to Your Most Challenging Clients
What can go wrong when you engage a client’s willfulness
How to help clients be more open to your interventions
What a client needs to get from you before they’ll agree to your ideas
How to Help Clients Shift from Reluctance to Openness
How to identify seeds of unwillingness inside the therapeutic alliance
One change that can improve your outcome with clients who oppose all your ideas
How to work with clients who struggle to disclose feelings
3 therapeutic messages to help clients reverse their reluctance
How the Practitioner May Be Perpetuating Opposition in Their Client
What can go wrong when you resist a client’s resistance
How to recognize the dangerous way a client’s willfulness may be affecting you
How to foster a high level of support for clients who don’t do the work
Course Director
Ruth Buczynski, PhD
Dr. Ruth Buczynski is a licensed psychologist and founder and president of The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM). NICABM helps physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and counselors – practitioners who have some of the most significant and life-changing missions on the planet – provide cutting-edge, research-based treatment strategies to their patients. For more than 25 years, NICABM has offered accredited training and professional development programs to thousands of practitioners worldwide.
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The Brain Science Behind a Client’s Unwillingness (and How It Can Foster More Powerful Interventions)
How “spiritual bypass” can keep clients stuck in avoidance (and how to work with it)
Why underdevelopment of this part of the brain can lead to reluctance
How to Work with Avoidant Relationships
Why it’s vital for you to introduce pain and discomfort in your work with certain couples
How to help couples confront the vital issues they’ve learned to avoid
The Key Message Inside Your Client’s Unwillingness
Why you should always walk toward your client’s resistance
One professional risk that can strengthen the therapeutic relationship and foster change
One Change That Can Unravel a Client’s Rigid Beliefs
The clarifying reason we need pushback from our clients
Why you need to feel uncomfortable in your session (this can make all the difference)
What lies beneath most clients’ rigid beliefs
How to Engage with a Willful Client
The parenting model that can improve your work with willful clients
The trick to working with willfulness (it may go against your natural inclination)
The danger of using contingency management to foster behavior change
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