Learn how to master the skills and techniques at the heart of psychotherapy

Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills

with Victor Yalom, PhD and Orah Krug, PhD

3-Volume Online Course — Only $249
Includes over 14 hours of video, sessions with real clients, 14 CE credits, and supplementary resources.

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Victor Yalom has spent 30 years working with many of the most legendary therapists of our time to produce training videos. In this culmination of his life's work, he shares that wisdom and techniques that build rapport and make sessions feel alive.

From deepening client self-discovery, to working in the here-and-now, and learning ways to help clients get unstuck, this course is deep dive in fundamental skills often not formally taught. Watch Victor Yalom and renowned clinician, Orah Krug, demonstrate work with real clients as they incorporate these techniques in practice, and discover how to apply them in your sessions.

A course so comprehensive, it's unlike anything available in the market today!

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This Course Includes...

Volume 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery

Watch Yalom and Krug as they demonstrate simple, effective interventions that quickly help clients discover new things about themselves and empower them to enact the changes they desire. You'll learn the importance of...

The process of searching inward to connect clients to their inner world of emotions
Using process comments to draw attention to what is experienced but unsaid and to reveal the emotions behind the words your clients are speaking
Why underlying therapist presence is critical and how modeling openness and vulnerability helps clients learn to do the same

Volume 2: Working in the Here-and-Now

Explore the power of using the here-and-now—which shifts the focus from discussing past experiences or intellectualizing about issues to actively engaging with what is unfolding in the therapeutic relationship in real time. You'll learn...

The when and how of bringing here-and-now work into sessions
How to use the therapeutic relationship as a catalyst for improving client interpersonal functioning
Effective use of self-disclosure to inform and empower clients with in-the-moment feedback

Volume 3: Working with Stuck Clients

Designed to help therapists address recurring frustrations and clinical roadblocks that often stall therapy, Yalom and Krug tackle the nuanced challenge of working with “stuck” clients – those individuals who have long-standing protective patterns that obstruct deeper emotional work. You'll learn how to...

Spot protective patterns early to uncover the real source of therapeutic stuckness
Identify and name recurring client metaphors or stories that reveal hidden protective mechanisms
Use process comments and here-and-now statements to deepen clients' awareness of how others experience them

You'll Learn...

Model risk-taking and vulnerability to heighten and authenticity and support client growth

Discuss the benefits of working in here-and-now and how it relates to clients’ “real world” relationships

Privilege the client’s own language, and lead to deep understanding of who the client is and what brings them to the room

Use process comments for deepening clients' access to their emotions

Practice relational patience and presence, engaging clients with empathy and curiosity

Prompts to help intellectualized clients access their intrapersonal worlds

Give clients tools for challenging oppression

Identify clients' common protective styles and apply tailored interventions based on these patterns

Look Inside the Course...

From Volume 1
Searching Inward to Move Forward

Although not a new concept, the process of searching—directing clients' attention inward—is a skill that many clients need to be taught, and many therapists are unsure how to lead the way. Yalom and Krug show you simple but powerful techniques for helping clients navigate their world of emotions. You'll learn how to...

Facilitate your client's journey inward
Connect clients to their inner world of emotions
Help highly intellectualized clients build an emotional vocabulary

From Volume 2
The When and How of Bringing Here-and-Now Work into Sessions

When you shift the focus from surface-level issues to underlying defenses, it's easier to see how how pervasive and limiting protective patterns can be. By using imagery or metaphor to explore these patterns, clients can recognize how they experience themselves and shine a light on how these patterns may suppress their sense of vitality, connection, and authentic expression.Here-and-now interventions energize sessions and allow you to work more directly on clients’ relationship issues, but using them in sessions can feel awkward. Learn how to recognize opportunities for bringing session work into the present moment to help clients explore interpersonal challenges in real time.

From Volume 3
Explore How These Defenses Serve Clients

These protective patterns—developed as adaptive and functional survival strategies—can become rigid and impede emotional growth. They're employed to protect a person's sense of safety, identity, or emotional balance. Identifying patterns with compassion and curiosity, and techniques including process comments, role play, and using the client's own language, can help clients explore more flexible, empowering ways to respond to life’s challenges.

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Carlos Del Rio
Associate Professor, Bellevue University

“This video is a vital source for supervision and for teaching advance skills courses in mental health disciplines including psychology, psychiatry, counseling, rehabilitation, and social work. I strongly recommend this video without reservations.” -- (on the full 3-volume series)

Audrey Zatopek, PhD
Adjunct Professor & Owner, Midwestern State University & Mental Health Institute

"The strategies demonstrated will teach therapists how to identify clients who are feeling stuck and how to help potentially become unstuck. Between clips of real session footage, Drs. Krug and Yalom engage in helpful dialogue about factors that may contribute to stuckness as well as important considerations when using role playing, exploration, empathy, here-and-now check-ins, internal searching, and other interventions." -- (on Volume 3)

Michelle Santiago
Associate Professor of Clinical Practice, Moravian University

"The sessions with real clients, expert commentary breaking down the nuances of clinical interaction, and thought-provoking discussions make this course a must-watch...Featured are here-and-now techniques in action, bringing together theory and practice, clearly demonstrating what to do and how to do it — specifically with regards to tone and timing, and an understanding of the when and why Yalom and Krug give us a glimpse of real-world clinical work, including its ethical gray areas, while capturing the bedrock of therapy — the human element — which can't be conveyed through academics, books, or classes. -- (on Volume 2)

Carole Gilmore, PhD
Adjunct Professor, Life Pacific University

“This masterclass delivers engagement techniques that clinical instructors can readily incorporate into their therapy skills courses. The content shines in its practical demonstrations of client self-exploration techniques, showing real therapists skillfully guiding conversations past superficial exchanges. Rich with detailed session excerpts and expert commentary, this resource offers both newcomers and seasoned therapists concrete ways to sharpen their clinical approach.” -- (on Volume 1)

"It's so important in our work to hold a mirror up to those processes that are out of our client's awareness, and the more we can do that for our clients, the more they can **begin to develop greater awareness of who they are and how they are in the world.**"

—Orah Krug, PhD

What You Get in This Course

Over 14 hours of videos featuring clinical sessions with real clients
Voiceover commentaries and discussions for behind-the-scenes insight
Supplemental resources to consolidate learning and promote lateral thinking
Downloadable transcripts of all videos
14 CE credits available for licensed professionals
Instant access to all course materials

Effective tools for making therapy a place of discovery and growth

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14 hours of video featuring real clients • 14 CE Credits • Supplemental Resources

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“It's not just asking the client, how do they feel about you, but if we want them to be vulnerable, I think it's imperative that we're willing to be vulnerable too.”

~Victor Yalom, PhD

About the Experts

Victor Yalom, PhD is the founder and resident cartoonist of Psychotherapy.net. He has produced over 100 psychotherapy videos featuring many of the luminaries of our field, including Sue Johnson, Marsha Linehan, William Miller, Reid Wilson, and his father Irvin Yalom. He is a licensed psychologist with over 35 years of clinical experience and has conducted workshops in the US, China, Mexico and online. More info on Victor and his artwork and metal sculpture at sfpsychologist.com.

Orah T. Krug, PhD, is recognized in her field as a master clinician, supervisor and author. Her dedication to training the next generation of therapists led her to create Krug Counseling, Inc., where she trains and supervises the group’s clinicians, provides experiential therapy for individuals and couples, and leads consultation groups for licensed therapists. For further information about Orah Krug, Krug Counseling and the consultation groups visit krugcounseling.com.

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