(HS Gibson 057245 2023) Treating Adult Clients of Emotionally Immature Parents: How Your Clients Can Reclaim Their Lives from

Course overview

No matter what you treat, we all work with clients trying to overcome the wounds inflicted by emotionally immature, insensitive, self-absorbed, and controlling parents. As a therapist, working with these clients can leave you feeling frustrated and ineffective as they make the same self-destructive choices again and again, struggle to set healthy boundaries, find themselves unable to walk away from the role of "rescuer" in toxic relationships, and only say what they think others want to hear - including in therapy. Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is the Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents. A psychotherapist for over thirty years, her work has been translated into 14 languages and has helped thousands of people reverse their toxic psychological legacy and reclaim their lives. Watch her as she shows you how you can find greater therapeutic success with clinical strategies to help your clients take control of their relationships and lives, break free from harmful patterns, connect more deeply with themselves and others, and become the person they were always meant to be. The invaluable tools Dr. Gibson will share can help all therapists: Skillfully guide clients in how they can restructure toxic relationships with parents and others Free clients from the fear, shame and self-doubt that traps them in a life of emotional coercion Teach clients to protect themselves from hurtful behaviors without completely severing all ties Give clients the courage to set boundaries without feeling guilty