How to Work with the Fear, Pain, and Shame That’s Imprisoning Your Client in Perfectionism
Perfectionism can keep a client stuck in a pervasive anxiety.
Problem is, perfectionism can look like a good thing to the client – on the surface anyway. It often provides them with success, approval, and sometimes even a sense of mastery.
But it’s also grooving their brain into rigid black-and-white thinking. Not only that, it can lead to depression, paralyze their ability to make choices, and poison their most loving relationships.
Eventually, they’re left dealing with chronic stress, a loss of connection, and a nervous system that can’t come down off the ledge.
So how do we help clients achieve their goals without the harsh self-critical drive that’s damaging their mind and body?
We asked the top 26 experts in the world how they work with a client’s perfectionism. We gathered their best strategies into this course . . .
How to Work with a Client’s Perfectionism
The Neurobiology of Perfectionism
Dan Siegel, MD Kelly McGonigal, PhD
- A mapping framework to help clients identify perfectionism patterns
- What goes on in a perfectionist’s brain and how it can create a self-made prison
- Why a perfectionist’s brain is highly optimized for detecting error
Perfectionism’s Cost: Helping Clients See the Hidden Damage Under Perfection’s Rewards
Deany Laliotis, LICSW Melanie Greenberg, PhD
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT Zindel Segal, PhD
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD
- The most powerful driver of perfectionism (and why clients so desperately cling to it)
- Why your client will often reject the idea that perfectionism is hurting them
- Two toxic factors that can set a perfectionist up for depression
- Why perfectionism so often presents with disrupted sleep
Why Perfectionism Turns to Addiction and How to Help Clients Break Free
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
Michael Yapko, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD
- The addiction pattern that keeps many clients locked in a drive for perfection
- The perfectionist paradox: one way perfectionism actually promotes failure
- A core missing skill that can keep a client addicted to perfection
How to Work With Shame and Perfectionism
Pat Ogden, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD Deany Laliotis, LICSW
Richard Schwartz, PhD Melanie Greenberg, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD
- How perfectionism helps fuel a person’s feeling of “never good enough”
- One powerful strategy to foster the inner compassion that can reduce shame
- One approach for working with the painful feelings beneath perfectionism
- How to defuse an inner critic that’s driving your client’s perfectionism
How to Work with Clients Paralyzed by Their Perfectionism
Shelly Harrell, PhD Steven Hayes, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
- Why your client’s procrastination might be a hidden form of perfectionism
- How perfectionism can shift clients from motivation to paralysis
- The critical cost to a client who suffers perfection-driven paralysis
How to Target Deeply Engrained Patterns of Perfectionism
Stephen Porges, PhD Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, EDM, PhD
Deb Dana, LCSW
- The crucial link between perfectionism and early life attachment
- The core vulnerability that can lead to an obsession with perfection
- How a client can get trapped in a perfection-isolation loop
How to Work with Perfectionism That’s Linked to Trauma
Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP Onno van der Hart, PhD
Ron Siegel, PsyD
- How trauma strengthens the one core element that gives perfectionism its power
- Why trauma-driven perfectionism can often be mis-assessed as a personality trait
Key Strategies for Working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Perfectionism
Pat Ogden, PhD Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
- How to help clients manage the OCD that’s keeping their perfectionism alive
- A brain-based approach to treating hyperarousal triggered by perfectionism
- One technique to help a perfectionist safely experience mistakes
How to Help Clients Shift a Rigid Perfectionist Mindset
Zindel Segal, PhD Lynn Lyons, LICSW Michael Yapko, PhD
- One crucial reason a client will hold onto perfectionism (even when it’s costing them)
- How to help clients soften their rigid perfectionistic boundaries
- How an overachiever will often assess imperfection (and why this keeps them stuck)
Register Here for $197
You’ll get all of the video & audio recordings (so you can listen and watch whenever you want),
as well as the transcripts and learning tools
Up to 3.75 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures
For This Short Course on How to Work with a Client’s Perfectionism, We Brought Together Some of the Top Experts in the Field
Stephen Porges, PhD
Developer of Polyvagal Theory; Distinguished University Scientist at the Kinsey Institute at Indiana University Bloomington and Research Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at University of North Carolina Chapel Hill.
Dan Siegel, MD
Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute; Co-Director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center; author of Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation and The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician’s Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration.
Pat Ogden, PhD
Pioneer in Somatic Psychology; Founder and Director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI); Co-founder of the Hakomi Institute; Author of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment.
Shelly Harrell, PhD
Licensed psychologist specializing in multicultural and community psychology; Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at Pepperdine University.
Steven Hayes, PhD
Creator of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT); Nevada Foundation Professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Miguel Gallardo, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist specializing in multicultural and social justice; Associate Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology; author of Case Studies in Multicultural Counseling and Therapy.
Joan Borysenko, PhD
Founder of Mind/Body Health Sciences LLC; Author of New York Times Bestseller Minding the Body, Mending the Mind.
Ron Siegel, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time, Harvard Medical School; Author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems and Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy.
Kelly McGonigal, PhD
Health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University; Author of The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You and How to Get Good At It and The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It.
Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
Co-developer of Solution-Oriented Therapy; Psychotherapist, speaker, and author of Do One Thing Different: Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life.
Resmaa Menakem MSW LICSW SEP
Expert on conflict and violence; Teacher of Cultural Somatics; Former Director of Counseling Services for the Tubman Family Alliance; Former Behavioral Health Director for African American Family Services in Minneapolis.
Christine Padesky, PhD
Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Huntington Beach, California; Co-creator of Strengths-Based CBT; Co-author of Mind Over Mood and Collaborative Case Conceptualization.
Michael Yapko, PhD
Leading expert in clinical hypnosis and treating depression; Clinical psychologist and author of 15 books including his newest books, The Discriminating Therapist and Keys to Unlocking Depression.
Rick Hanson, PhD
Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley; New York Times bestselling author of Hardwiring Happiness and Buddha’s Brain.
Zindel Segal, PhD
A founder of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT); Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Founder of the PACT Training Institute and developer of a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT).
Deany Laliotis, LICSW
Director of Training at EMDR Institute; Specialist in treatment of traumatic stress disorders and attachment issues; author of chapters and articles on EMDR therapy.
Onno van der Hart PhD
Psychotraumatologist and Emeritus Professor of Psychopathology of Chronic Trauma; Co-Author of Treating Trauma-Related Dissociation and co-author of The Haunted Self.
Kelly Wilson, PhD
Co-author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change; Founder of OneLife Education Training, LLC.
Terry Real, MSW, LICSW
Founder of the Relational Life Institute; author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression and The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work.
Richard Schwartz, PhD
Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and The Center for Self Leadership.
Melanie Greenberg PhD
Clinical Psychologist and Author of The Stress-Proof Brain.
Judson Brewer MD PhD
Founder of Claritas MindSciences; Formative leader in combining mindfulness and neurofeedback techniques for working with addiction; Author of The Craving Mind.
Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Author of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, clinical social worker and psychotherapist specializing in anxiety in adults and children.
Bonnie Goldstein, PhD
Founder and Director of the Lifespan Psychological Center; Co-author of Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating AD/HD in Children and Adolescents.
Deb Dana, LCSW
Coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute; Developer of the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series; author of Polyvagal Theory in Therapy.
Here's What You'll Get:
Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library
 | Downloadable videos so you can watch at your convenience, on any device |
 | Audio recordings you can download and listen to at home, in the car, at the gym or wherever you like |
 | Professionally-formatted transcripts of the sessions, to make review and action simple |
 | Two downloadable bonus videos to help you work with a Client’s Perfectionism |
Get 2 Bonuses That Give You Even More Strategies for Working with a Client’s Perfectionism
Bonus 1
Working with Perfectionist Parents (and the Children Who Survive Them)
Joan Borysenko,PhD Melanie Greenberg, PhD
Deb Dana, LCSW Kelly Wilson, PhD
- How to help parents see the real-world impact of their perfectionist messaging
- A powerful way to break the perfectionism cycle between parent and child
- Why some kids are more affected than others by performance expectations
Bonus 2
How to Work with the Perfectionist Who Expects Perfection in Others
Terry Real, MSW, LICSW Pat Ogden, PhD
Melanie Greenberg, PhD Miguel Gallardo, PsyD
- How to help clients let go of the contempt they harbor toward others
- One strategy to help clients redirect judgmental thoughts
- One of the strongest factors that can shift a client into accepting other people’s imperfections
Register Here for $197
You’ll get all of the video & audio recordings (so you can listen and watch whenever you want),
as well as the transcripts and learning tools
Up to 3.75 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures
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Mary Logan, Counselor
Ipswich, MA
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David Mensink, PhD Counseling Psychology, Psychologist
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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Mary Corsello-Vilcheck, LCSW
Midlothian, VA
Course Director
Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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- Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
- Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
- You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients
“I really liked being able to follow along with the transcripts as I listened…it was nice not to feel like I had to take notes. I really feel like I remember more when I both hear and see at the same time.”
Mary Ellen McNaughton, Masters in Counseling, Psychology Counselor
Kelowna, British Colombia, Canada
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