We've gathered Psychotherapy Networkers most popular video posts.
Discernment Counseling for the Mixed-Agenda Couple
Bill Doherty
In at least 30 percent of couples who come to therapy, partners enter the consulting room with different agendas---one wants a divorce, the other wants to save the marriage. Bill Doherty, cofounder of The Doherty Relationship Institute and director of the Minnesota Couples on the Brink Project, says the stakes are high in this scenario and traditional approaches fall short with these mixed-agenda couples.
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Getting Through to Shut-Down Kids
Dan Hughes
Most therapists are aware of the perils of trying to connect with teenage clients. Teens are often brought to therapy against their will by adults, which can make them especially unwilling to let therapists in. And don’t talk to them like kids--they’re too old for that. But don’t bore them with stereotypical “therapist talk” either--they’re expecting that. So how do therapists relate to teens without seeming patronizing, clueless, or invasive? Therapist Dan Hughes explains...
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How to Help Clients Do More than Just Recover
Lisa Ferentz
There’s no question that helping clients return to a basic functional level should be the main goal with trauma survivors. But what if clients could not only eliminate traumatic stress, but also come away from treatment feeling more resilient and with a fuller sense of self? Lisa Ferentz explains her concept of Post-Traumatic Growth.
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The Yoga Breath’s Universal Application
Amy Weintraub
Brain science has revealed how deep breathing can calm our overactive nervous system, clear our distressed mind, and restore us to a balanced emotional state, says Amy Weintraub, a recognized leader in the practice of yoga and a presenter at this year’s
Psychotherapy Networker Symposium.
So how do you introduce these techniques in session to an anxious client who may be averse to the idea of yoga? Hear Amy explain. . .
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How to Help Couples Have "Hold Me Tight" Conversations
Susan Johnson
Susan Johnson, couples therapist and author of
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships, will be a keynote speaker at this year's
Networker Symposium. Here, she talks about how creating emotionally valuable experiences in therapy helps keep struggling couples engaged and better able to see their partner's point of view, and communicate better outside of therapy and in the bedroom.
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Creating Lasting Change
Rick Hanson
Rick Hanson, a neuropsychologist and author of
Buddha's Brain, will be a keynote speaker at this year's
Networker Symposium. Here, he talks about our brain's negativity bias and how to help our clients overcome it. After all, our job as therapists is to help our clients make lasting changes by changing the brain.
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Deliberate Practice and Inner Transformation
Tara Brach
Being compassionate and trusting is fundamental to our nature. But according to noted mindfulness teacher Tara Brach, it can be hard to stay true to our highest selves in a world that’s fragmented and fragmenting. In this address from the 2013 Symposium, she shares a moving personal example of how deliberate practice leads to inner transformation.
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Chris Germer on shifting the focus from fixing a problem to embracing it with compassion
Christopher Germer
What someone resists persists. It’s a paradoxical dynamic that you’ve probably seen in the course of your own clinical work. In this video, Chris explains how “fixing” approaches can backfire and then he shares an example from his own life of self-compassion’s ability to soften resistance and heal a deep, persistent issue.
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Tim Desmond on Self-Compassion in Therapy
Tim Desmond
For many clients who come into therapy with low self-esteem, shame, or self-blame, the practice of self-compassion is the missing piece in the therapeutic puzzle. But it’s not that straightforward for all clients. To learn more about the barriers to self-compassion and how to overcome them, we turned to Tim Desmond, clinical psychologist and author of Self-Compassion in Psychotherapy.
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How Being Calm and Collected Gets Us Connected
Martha Straus
In this brief video clip, child psychologist and
Symposium 2016 presenter Martha Straus discusses the benefit of using co-regulation with a young client in trouble.
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