Working with “Challenging” Clients:
How to work Compassionately in Challenging Relational Dynamics
November 18th, 2022, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
Workshop Leader: Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW
*I've run this training three times, and am always interested in providing another iteration. Contact me via email if you are interested and I will add your name to my list. Given the realities of social distancing, the training will be offered via Zoom. However, the training will be considered in-person training for licensure boards ("Live Interactive Webinar").
Spaces will be limited to 35 participants
Cost: Program Fees:
Standard Fee --> $150.00
· LCSWA’s --> Please contact me directly about a 25% discount on the full fee.
· 8 slots --> 50% Scholarships available ($87.50) for clinicians who primarily treat clients with Medicaid
--------------------Email: [email protected]----------------
6.5 CE hours available through R.Cassidy Seminars
CE Fees (If necessary) - $40.00 via R. Cassidy Seminars
Workshop Description:
Different psychotherapies have varying names for the challenging relational dynamics that can develop in psychotherapy encounters. For example, psychoanalytic literature has coined the phrase “Negative Therapeutic Reaction”, while modern behavioral treatments have described “Therapy Interfering Behaviors”.
Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW is offering a 6.5-hour training on working with clients who tend to “externalize” their presenting psychotherapy problems. The workshop is designed specifically to empower therapists to help clients who consistently identify their internal problems outside of themselves, mostly within their relationships and also with their treatment providers (towards the therapist).
Most treatments that are "trauma focussed" or "attachment-based" are not adequate to treat clients with specific types of underlying character difficulty. In fact, most of these treatments do not have an elaborated mechanism of action or intervention set to help therapists with these core personality challenges their clients face.
Without a skillset, many therapists are left with the tools related to both their model, and the gifts that drew them into being psychotherapists. And here in lies a dilemma: although therapists generally have ample training in being helpful, knowing how to repair ruptures and create a safe environment, in some cases these same skills can backfire with a subset of clients. The relational dynamics in these situations can leave the therapist frustrated, burnt out, or even traumatized. Indeed, therapists will frequently complain of “shutting down” or “freezing”. There is commonly a sense of dread that develops for the therapist in this work.
From there, treatment outcomes tend to worsen and the therapeutic alliance begins to break down. Clients with these characteristics are commonly labeled as "difficult" or "problematic". Therapists come to learn to avoid clients who present with these problems and commonly terminate treatment when these dynamics begin to show up with existing clients. The clients are commonly left with a growing sense of shame, which only exacerbates their relationship problems and overall mental health difficulties.
Borrowing concepts from Experiential Dynamic Therapies (EDT’s), Attachment Theory, Developmental Psychodynamic Models, & Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, workshop participants can learn a new skill set to meet these clients where they are and intervene more efficiently (and ideally with less trauma for both parties).
The first three hours of the workshop will cover relevant concepts and information from developmental literature. The last three and a half hours will cover specific and concrete intervention strategies for you to leave with.
How to work Compassionately in Challenging Relational Dynamics
November 18th, 2022, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (EST)
Workshop Leader: Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW
*I've run this training three times, and am always interested in providing another iteration. Contact me via email if you are interested and I will add your name to my list. Given the realities of social distancing, the training will be offered via Zoom. However, the training will be considered in-person training for licensure boards ("Live Interactive Webinar").
Spaces will be limited to 35 participants
Cost: Program Fees:
Standard Fee --> $150.00
· LCSWA’s --> Please contact me directly about a 25% discount on the full fee.
· 8 slots --> 50% Scholarships available ($87.50) for clinicians who primarily treat clients with Medicaid
--------------------Email: [email protected]----------------
6.5 CE hours available through R.Cassidy Seminars
CE Fees (If necessary) - $40.00 via R. Cassidy Seminars
Workshop Description:
Different psychotherapies have varying names for the challenging relational dynamics that can develop in psychotherapy encounters. For example, psychoanalytic literature has coined the phrase “Negative Therapeutic Reaction”, while modern behavioral treatments have described “Therapy Interfering Behaviors”.
Tyler Beach, MSW, LCSW is offering a 6.5-hour training on working with clients who tend to “externalize” their presenting psychotherapy problems. The workshop is designed specifically to empower therapists to help clients who consistently identify their internal problems outside of themselves, mostly within their relationships and also with their treatment providers (towards the therapist).
Most treatments that are "trauma focussed" or "attachment-based" are not adequate to treat clients with specific types of underlying character difficulty. In fact, most of these treatments do not have an elaborated mechanism of action or intervention set to help therapists with these core personality challenges their clients face.
Without a skillset, many therapists are left with the tools related to both their model, and the gifts that drew them into being psychotherapists. And here in lies a dilemma: although therapists generally have ample training in being helpful, knowing how to repair ruptures and create a safe environment, in some cases these same skills can backfire with a subset of clients. The relational dynamics in these situations can leave the therapist frustrated, burnt out, or even traumatized. Indeed, therapists will frequently complain of “shutting down” or “freezing”. There is commonly a sense of dread that develops for the therapist in this work.
From there, treatment outcomes tend to worsen and the therapeutic alliance begins to break down. Clients with these characteristics are commonly labeled as "difficult" or "problematic". Therapists come to learn to avoid clients who present with these problems and commonly terminate treatment when these dynamics begin to show up with existing clients. The clients are commonly left with a growing sense of shame, which only exacerbates their relationship problems and overall mental health difficulties.
Borrowing concepts from Experiential Dynamic Therapies (EDT’s), Attachment Theory, Developmental Psychodynamic Models, & Functional Analytic Psychotherapy, workshop participants can learn a new skill set to meet these clients where they are and intervene more efficiently (and ideally with less trauma for both parties).
The first three hours of the workshop will cover relevant concepts and information from developmental literature. The last three and a half hours will cover specific and concrete intervention strategies for you to leave with.