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Welcome to: How to Work with a Client’s Resistance

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Introduction

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How to Release the Deep-Rooted Resistance That’s Blocking Your Client from Healing

Part 1: How to Work with Resistance That’s Linked to a Negative Attachment History

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Part 2: How to Reduce the Threat at the Core of Your Client’s Resistance

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The Hidden Fear That May Be Driving Your Client’s Resistance

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How to Bring a Client Out of a Defensive State

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3 Skills That Dissolve a Client’s Resistance

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How to Safely Approach the Vulnerable Parts That Are Resisting Change

Part 1: The Critical Approach That Gets You Past a Client’s Defenses

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Part 2: 5 Harmful Strategies That Lead to Resistance (And How to Deal with Them)

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The Key Missing Element Often Misdiagnosed as a Lack of Motivation

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How to Sell Behavior Change to Your Most Challenging Clients

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One Way to Shift Your Client’s Ambivalence to Growth

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How the Practitioner May Be Perpetuating Their Client’s Resistance

Part 1: What Can Happen When You Resist the Resistance

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Part 2: How to Work with the Resistance That Gets Triggered Inside You, the Therapist

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Bonus 1 | How Impaired Integration Provides the Map for Your Interventions

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Bonus 2 | How to Work with the Resistance Inside Relationships

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Bonus 3 | The Important Message You’re Missing in Your Client’s Resistance

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Bonus 4 | One Change That Can Unravel a Client’s Rigid Beliefs

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Bonus 5 | How to Engage with a Willful Client

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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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