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Welcome to: Helping Clients Undo Patterns of Pleasing and Appeasing

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Introduction

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How Pleasing & Appeasing Can Serve (and Cost) Clients

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Identifying the Unique Features That Set Please and Appease Apart from All Other Trauma Responses (And How to Detect It)

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First Steps When Working with Please & Appease

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How to Work with the Nervous System to Undo Patterns of Pleasing & Appeasing

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How to Help Clients Set Healthy Boundaries in Their Relationships

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How to Help Clients Identify and Act in Alignment with Their Values

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Critical Factors in Helping Clients Decide Whether to Stay in a Relationship Where Pleasing and Appeasing Is Central

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How to Differentiate Between Functional and Dysfunctional Please & Appease

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How to Address Pleasing & Appeasing in a Session (Whether It’s Your Client’s or Your Own)

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Bonus 1 – A 6-Step Approach to Helping Clients Shift Out of Pleasing and Appeasing

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Bonus 2 – A Case Study of an Integrated Approach to Overcoming Please and Appease

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Bonus 3 – An IFS Approach to Address the Link Between Pleasing and Appeasing and Chronic Pain

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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 35 years, NICABM has offered accredited training and professional development programs to thousands of practitioners worldwide.



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