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Expert Strategies for Helping Clients Get "Unstuck"

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One of the main reasons clients come to see us is that they’re stuck – in one way or another.

Maybe they’ve got limiting beliefs about what they can, or can’t, accomplish. Sometimes the fear of trying something new holds people back.

When a client is stuck, it’s often useful to consider how other practitioners have successfully helped their clients move forward.

In the video below, ten experts weigh in on why people get stuck, and how we can help them heal.

Take a look – it’s less than 4 minutes.

What techniques have you used in working with a client who was stuck? Please tell us about it in the comment section below.

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  1. Tom Stanley, Counseling, GB says

    There are only the necessary and sufficient conditions of personality change. The client’s actualising tendency takes care of the rest.

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  2. Tsvi Koehler, Coach, IL says

    Guided breathing, guided imagery, guided relaxation and TAT (Tapas Acupressure Technique) have proven to be deeply effective in helping clients leave being stuck.

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  3. Jeanine Lamusse, Psychology, ZA says

    I have found different techniques to be beneficial ranging from analysis to aid self-compassion and understanding, to using affect bridge techniques, somatic techniques/visualization to third person projection and inner child work. These measures are used to understand the resistance/stuck parts and then this is followed up by skill building and mindful practices or behavioral techniques (doing) to practice a different way of being. So I would agree with the summation the video offered. I think how this is practically implemented in session varies, as some clients benefit from intellectual departure points while others start off in emotional or behavioral spaces. So whether I offer skills, affect regulation techniques, or, psycho-education about neuroplasticity, for example; will alter which part of the process gets the initial focus. In essence it all feels like weaving to me and bringing things into a greater coherent whole, and its often not as linear as we would like it to be.

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  4. Marcia Harms, Counseling, Poulsbo, WA, USA says

    Education is warranted as I explain development. How our inner lights are thwarted after birth with conditions of worth placed on us by others and then explain this thwarted those inner lights because of our need to please others. I then use Hypnotherapy or guided imagery (if they are good at meditation it is easier) to help them access those inner lights by responding to the first thought without judgment. It is hard for some, easier for others, but helps them open up a window to their inner wisdom and begin to trust their inner world of joy perhaps for the first time.

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