(HS Gazdik 059972 2025) When Therapy Gets Stuck: Over 30 Strategies for Helping Clients Move Forward from Trauma, Grief, ...

Course overview

You sense your work with a client has hit a wall... Where sessions used to end with a feeling of accomplishment, they now end with one or both of you feeling frustrated and discouraged. Watch Chris Gazdik, LCSW, highly experienced counselor, presenter, and author for this experiential (and entertaining!) one-of-a-kind workshop where you will learn to effectively break through barriers to therapeutic progress. This strategy-packed workshop was created specifically to address the internal conflict between wanting to hang on to the past and needing to move forward, the role of addictions, and the challenges involved in breaking the cycle of unresolved feelings that result in "stuckness." You will finish with: Must-use techniques drawn from CBT, ACT, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy models to overcome stuck points in therapy Values-driven goal-setting strategies for trauma and grief processing, substance use disorders, and persistent emotional responses such as fear, shame, and regret Strategies to leverage the therapeutic relationship to break through therapeutic barriers