Masterclass in Advanced Psychotherapy Skills, 3-Volume Series

Take your practice to the next level with a toolkit of techniques for deepening therapeutic encounters, promoting client self-discovery, and fostering growth in even the most challenging clients. In this course you'll get...

Volume 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery: Learn simple, effective interventions that quickly help clients discover new things about themselves and empower them to enact the changes they desire. 4 CE Credits

Volume 2: Working in the Here-and-Now: Explore the power of using the here-and-now to shift the focus from discussing past experiences to engaging with what is unfolding in the therapeutic relationship in real time. 5 CE Credits

Volume 3: Working with Stuck Clients: Discover how to use experiential tools to get stuck clients unstuck by exploring the defensive patterns that keep them from meaningful growth in therapy and in their lives. 4.75 CE Credits

Inside This Course...

  1. Volume 1: Deepening Client Self-Discovery

    20 lessons
    1. Introduction: Making Therapy a Place of Discovery
    2. The Search Process
    3. Hamed: Prompts for Going Deeper
    4. Process vs. Content
    5. Heather: The Power of Process Comments
    6. Tim: Beyond “How Do You Feel?”
    7. Explicitly and Implicitly Directing Clients Inward
    8. Leading Clients Towards Deeper Awareness
    9. Beyond Technique: Presence
    10. Hamed: Guiding Clients Towards Self-Discovery
    11. Hamed: Taking Risks and Repairing Ruptures
    12. Linking Therapeutic Encounters to Real World Relationships
    13. Attending to Both Process and Content
    14. Connecting Intrapersonal and Interpersonal Worlds
    15. Exploring Positive and Negative Feelings
    16. Bringing Our Humanity Into the Room
    17. Conclusion: Developing Yourself as a Therapist
    1. Volume 1 CEs & Additional Resources

      1. Practice Exercises: Process Comments
      2. Supplemental Resources
      3. Continuing Education — 4 CE Credits
  2. Volume 2: Working in the Here-and-Now

    24 lessons
    1. What Does Working in the “Here-and-Now” Mean?
    2. Introducing Here-and-Now Work to Clients
    3. Max: “I Don’t Have Anything to Offer You”
    4. Encouraging Clients to Give Us Feedback
    5. Explaining the Benefits of Here-and-Now Work to Clients
    6. Vulnerability is a Two-Way Street
    7. Gary: Struggling to Make Contact
    8. Bringing Race Into the Room
    9. Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable
    10. Attending to the Here-and-Now in the First Session
    11. Using Horizontal Self-Disclosure to Encourage Self-Discovery
    12. Heather: “I Feel Like I’m Hiding Behind a Window Blind”
    13. The Power of Exploring Positive Emotions
    14. Connecting Here-and-Now Work to Real-World Relationships
    15. Heather: “Expressing it to You Made it More Intense Than Just Thinking it to Myself”
    16. Bringing Sessions to a Close and Integrating Experiences
    17. The Immediacy of Here-and-Now Interactions
    18. Heather: “It Feels Embarrassing to Want Something From You”
    19. Offering a Cognitive Framework for Here-and-Now Experiences
    20. Using Experiences to Foster Growth
    21. Conclusion: How to Bring Here-and-Now Work to Your Sessions
    1. Volume 2 CEs & Additional Resources

      1. Practice Exercises: Working in the Here-and-Now
      2. Supplemental Resources
      3. Continuing Education Credit
  3. Volume 3: Working with Stuck Clients

    24 lessons
    1. Coming Summer 2025: Working with Stuck Clients
    2. Protective Patterns: The Paradox of Survival Strategies
    3. Stuck in Survival: Common Protective Patterns in Practice
    4. Identifying Protective Patterns that Lie Beneath Presenting Problems
    5. Protective Patterns: The Risks and Rewards of Letting Go
    6. Confronting Strategies That No Longer Serve
    7. “Inclusion, Not Amputation”
    8. Hamed: The Paradox of Protection
    9. Gary: Torn Between Protection and Connection
    10. Reinforcing Moments of Growth Outside the Protective Walls
    11. Therapists’ Emotions: To Bring or Not to Bring
    12. Stephen: Stuck Inside Stories
    13. Armor Versus Revelation
    14. “Tagging” Protective Patterns to Deepen Awareness
    15. Finding Flexibility in the Armor
    16. Maintaining Empathy While Confronting Motivation
    17. Stephen, Session Three: “We’re Really Missing Each Other”
    18. Interrupting, Redirecting, and Pushing Back
    19. Moving from Telling Stories to Experiencing Emotions
    20. Identifying Gateways to Intrapersonal Worlds
    21. Key Techniques for Working More Effectively with Stuck Clients
    22. Closing Reflections: Continuing Your Growth as a Therapist
    1. CE Credit and Additional Resources

      1. Supplemental Resources
      2. Continuing Education Credit