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