Contributed by Steve Shapiro
The Client Who's Tried Everything
ACT and ISTDP Tackle One Challenging CaseHow do you approach a first session with a client who's tried all kinds of different therapies and yet continues to struggle? Steven Hayes, the cofounder of... Read more
3 Tips for Working with Hard-to-Reach Clients
Matching Your Clinical Style with Your Client’s NeedsAre you matching your self-presentation and efforts with your clients' emotional capacity to respond? Read more
"I've Got Nothing to Talk About"
How to Work with Tight-Lipped ClientsWhat do you do when your client comes to session with nothing to say? Longtime experts in the field offer how to get the conversation going. Read more
Steve Shapiro
Steve Shapiro, PhD, is a clinical psychologist with over twenty-five years of clinical and teaching experience who has been practicing various forms of Experiential Dynamic Therapy (EDT), since the mid-1990’s, including Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) and Accelerated Experiential Dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP). For 16 years, he was the Director of Psychology and Education at Montgomery County Emergency Service (MCES), an emergency psychiatric hospital, where his work with a range of severe disorders and those committed involuntarily to treatment informed his approach to transforming resistance with challenging patients with trauma histories and excessive anxiety and dysregulation. He’s a founding member and currently an adjunct faculty member of the AEDP Institute in New York City.