Session #: 717-205
Presenter(s): Paul Wachtel, Ph.D.
Session Length: 2 hr. 00 min. Event: 2007 Networker Annual Symposium Date: March 15-18, 2007
As psychotherapy becomes briefer, shallower, and more symptom-focused, therapists may be in danger of ignoring the hidden complexities, unarticulated yearnings, and walled-off feelings that deeply affect every aspect of clients' daily lives. In this workshop, we'll demonstrate how to integrate a deep exploration of the client(s abandoned dreams, secret vulnerabilities, and repudiated emotions with other therapeutic approaches, including cognitive behavioral and family interventions. You'll learn how to help clients explore, examine, and articulate suppressed anger, grief, and shame without feeling that either they or their experiences are being pathologized. Through a sensitive use of therapeutic language, you'll discover how to help clients both experience a full range of emotions and emerge with a far greater sense of their own inner potential and relational possibilities.
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