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Helping Clients Talk About Shame

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Ruth Lanius shares a question to help clients open up about feelings of shame in therapy

When Clients are Reluctant to Talk About Shame Working with clients who suffer from deep feelings of shame can be a delicate and nuanced process – for a few reasons . . . To start, shame can disguise itself in a number of ways. It can hide beneath anger, outrage, self-sabotage, or abusive relationships. What’s […]

How to Help Clients with Trauma Find a Sense of Belonging, with Bessel van der Kolk, MD

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When a client experiences trauma in childhood, and they aren’t able to develop crucial attachment relationships . . . . . . they may struggle to feel any true sense of belonging right up through adulthood. Instead, they can carry painful messages that they’re unwanted, unneeded, and never truly accepted. So in the video below, […]

An Intervention to Help Put Aside Resentment, with Terry Real, MSW, LICSW

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An intervention to put aside resentment

One major challenge of working with resentment . . . . . . is that the more we try to confront it directly with a client, the stronger it can become. So in the video below, Terry Real, MSW, LICSW walks us through an intervention that can help clients “shelve” their resentment until they’re resourced […]

An Exercise to Decrease Negative Self-Talk

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An exercise to stop harsh self-talk with Michael Yapko, PhD

When a client suffers from impostor syndrome, there is often a gap between how others perceive them . . . . . . and how they perceive themselves. This gap is what fuels that feeling that they’re a fraud – and the larger it gets, the stronger a client’s self-doubt grows. So in the video […]

What We Might Be Missing – Listening for Racial Stress in Session

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Racial Stress and Trauma in Therapeutic Sessions

There may be times when a client comes into a session with a specific story about racism that they experienced, and they want to talk about it. But according to Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD, a client’s experience of racial stress will usually come up much more subtly – and it could be easy to miss if […]

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