Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques

Reaching Through Resistance: Advanced Psychotherapy Techniques

About half of all psychotherapy clients have little to no response or can even worsen in treatment. Why? They unknowingly use treatment-defeating behaviors, or resistances, that prevent emotional closeness and successful collaboration with the therapist.<br><br>Reaching through Resistance will help you<br><br> -Detect treatment resistance from the first client contact<br> -Understand the emotional factors behind resistance<br> -Discern various degrees and forms of resistance<br> -Recognize signs of anxiety in the body<br> -Activate and monitor unprocessed, unconscious impulses and feelings<br> turn a client against his/her long-held defeating behaviors<br> -Regulate intense anxiety when emotions are activated <br> -Mobilize the client's unconscious wish to become well recognize signs <br>of a powerful healing force: the unconscious therapeutic alliance<br><br>By detecting avoidance patterns and using specific interventions developed to handle them, you can empower a collaborative, vigorous treatment alliance with your client.