Clinical Trainings

CLINICAL TRAININGS
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CLINICAL TRAINING WORKSHOP VIDEOS

Check out the Clinical Training Workshops and see which ones might speak to you.
The workshops will help you activate, develop and balance both aspects of your work:
  • the “technical” aspect of learning new skills and interventions
  • the “personal” aspect of fine-tuning your sense of self, perceiving your work more clearly.
Every workshop and every live consultation opportunity will help you stay inspired, curious and deeply anchored in your work as a clinician!
When Therapy Stalls
We need solid skills for navigating those moments when therapy stalls - when we’re covering the same material over and over again, or we feel unsure of what to focus on, or we sense the conversation during sessions has little vitality or real engagement.

In this workshop, you'll learn:
  • some of the reasons therapy stalls
  • how to read the 'signal' of stalling
  • the best options for getting your sessions re-engaged and vital again
Content v. Process
There are always different “layers” in our work with clients, and learning to work at the layer of process (rather than content) opens up vast areas of insight, change and self-development for our clients.

​In this workshop, you’ll:​
  • Learn to distinguish between content and process in your sessions
  • Learn how working with process enhances your effectiveness
  • Come to see ‘process’ as the doorway into the client’s relationship-to-self
  • Understand that working with process engenders change in multiple areas
​How to Challenge Clients
It’s critical for our clinical skills to include the ability to skillfully and ‘cleanly’ challenge our clients. Otherwise, our clients’ growth can be limited by our discomfort with challenging them. Whether it’s confronting them about their ‘story,’ addressing their avoidance of important lessons or helping them step into more integrity, challenge can be pivotal in the therapeutic process.

In this workshop, you’ll:​
  • Discover how supporting clients sometimes includes strong challenges
  • Learn how to help clients become more skillful at challenging themselves
  • Expand your ability to sit with the tension that arises as we challenge our clients
Relationship Series (5 Videos) 
​Whether we work with couples or individuals, our clients often want help with relationship concerns; a client’s relationships are a powerful venue for self-development and fulfillment. This series walks you through critical aspects of addressing relationship issues, for individuals and for couples, offering you a powerful “lens” to use in working with relationship concerns, and helping you harness the underlying lessons when clients struggle in relationships.

In this workshop series, you’ll:
  • Learn how to feel more effective with clients’ relationship concerns, more clear on where and how to intervene
  • Understand how to get “underneath” the sticking-points that often emerge with relationship issues
  • Develop the ability to get traction on both sides of the dynamic when working with couples
  • Grasp the “bullet-points” for working with affairs, no matter which side of that story belongs to your client
Organizing Assumptions 
​After supervising and consulting with therapists for decades, I find that the ability to accurately conceptualize the client’s case dictates the value of the work you’ll offer to that client – if you can grasp the nuances and ‘pitfalls’ in the situation they’re grappling with, you have a much better chance at helping them resolve the issue and gain the insights it holds for them. This video offers a few organizing assumptions that create a “platform” you can use for integrating and understanding what you’re working with. No matter which modality you use, these organizing assumptions will increase your effectiveness and insight.
Therapist's Differentiation Series (5 Videos) 
​Although the term “differentiation” might be unfamiliar, it simply refers to your ability to be in emotional connection with another while staying steady in your sense of self. As you can imagine, this ability to be deeply connected and yet steady in oneself is a crucial aspect of our work with clients. No matter which therapeutic framework you use, increasing your level of differentiation infuses your interventions and responses with greater clarity and impact.

This series walks you step-by-step through the concept itself, and then offers you several different ways to work with and increase your level of differentiation.
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You’ll benefit personally and professionally!
​Relationship to Self Series (6 Videos) 
​In my early training to become a therapist, I had a supervisor who used to say, “You are the most important tool you have – the clearer you are in yourself, the more adept you will be in perceiving the client’s issues, and the more skillful you’ll be in choosing a superbly effective response.” Forty years down the road, I think his perception was incredibly accurate. The more we work with our process, and the more familiar we are with our skills and blind-spots, the more effective we can be with our clients.

​This series takes a look at several important parameters in that relationship-to-self, and offers you specific questions and prompts to help you deepen your awareness of the self you’re bringing into your work.

After working with some of these concepts, you’ll be amazed at the difference in your work with clients!
Working with Emotional Hinterlands
​When I began working with combat veterans, I encountered what I called the “emotional hinterlands” of human experience, the outer boundaries of emotional experience, where many of us never have to go.

​For some of us – and for some of our clients – life carries us into those hinterlands where our skills for coping with and processing our experience simply don’t reach. Whether we’re working with combat veterans, folks encountering systemic racism, those who have experienced abuse or those who have faced loss at a level we find hard to grasp . . . those folks need us to hone our skills for working with the “emotional hinterlands” so we can help them fully recover their clear sense of self.  ​
​Who Changes?
We spend a lot of time learning about how to help clients change; this workshop reflects on the ways we are changed by clients. You’ll have the opportunity to understand how we’re changed by clients, consider which clients have changed you the most, and ways to stay open to being changed by your work with clients. The workshop also offers questions that prompt you to increase your awareness of how your clients might change you.
"Because of the depth of her experience and her passion for doing this work, Elizabeth’s
trainings offer a remarkable combination of skills and self-exploration, both paths to
​doing more engaging work and feeling more enlivened as a practitioner."
Brent Beam, PhD
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