20 Skills to Work with Emotion in Psychotherapy

Overview

Working with emotion is essential to psychotherapy, and therapists commonly encounter challenging emotional processes in session. For example, many clients present with reactive symptoms that are often mistaken for the main problem: anxiety, depression, hopelessness, addiction, rage, distress, feeling overwhelmed, avoidance, or withdrawal.

These reactive symptoms often mask deeper emotional issues at the core of a client’s distress. To help clients move forward, therapists need skills to recognize, access, and work with the underlying emotional processes that drive those symptoms. Without these skills, even experienced therapists may feel stuck or unsure how to help.

This workshop offers 20 practical, evidence-based skills to address these and other common emotional issues. Drawing on evidence from neuroscience, evolutionary biology, and psychotherapy process research, these skills are designed to help you assess what is happening emotionally in session and intervene in ways that support movement and change. The approach is integrative and can be applied across modalities and client populations.

Video recordings of real therapy sessions will illustrate how emotional processes unfold in session and how specific interventions can help shift them.

Objectives

In this workshop, you will learn how to:

• Recognize and assess productive and unproductive emotion states and different emotion types (adaptive/maladaptive, secondary/protective, instrumental) and learn how to work with them differentially
• Apply techniques to track and explore emotional processes in session
• Use collaborative case formulation to identify clients’ core emotional issues
• Work with clients who are overwhelmed by their emotions by using deliberate and automatic emotion regulation techniques
• Access, activate, and deepen emotions with clients who have trouble accessing and expressing their feelings
• Process emotions productively
• Change maladaptive emotions with adaptive emotions

Details

Live Recorded

Approximately: 7 hours

Marked Down:

Professional Rate:  $149 (+applicable taxes)

Student Rate:  $69 (+applicable taxes)

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Important

Refund and Transfer Requests after the video files of a purchased pre-recorded workshop have been provided:

• Refund: No Refund
• Transfers: No Transfers to purchase another pre-recorded workshop.

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