NICABM – How to Work with Perfectionism

Perfectionism can lock a client in a constant state of anxiety, grinding down their nervous system.
It can lead to depression, chronic stress, and become a painful coping strategy for shame.
NICABM – How to Work with Perfectionism
So how do we help clients achieve their goals without the harsh self-critical drive that’s impacting their health and damaging their relationships?
We gathered the latest strategies from the top 26 experts in the world for this brand new course . . .
How to Work with a Client’s Perfectionism
The Neurobiology of Perfectionism
Dan Siegel, MD Kelly McGonigal, PhD

A mapping framework to help clients identify perfectionism patterns in the brain
What goes on in a perfectionist’s brain and how it can create a self-made prison
Why a perfectionist’s brain is highly optimized for detecting error

Perfectionism’s Cost: Helping Clients See the Hidden Damage Under Perfection’s Rewards
Deany Laliotis, LICSW Melanie Greenberg, PhD

Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT Zindel Segal, PhD

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD

The most powerful driver of perfectionism (and why clients so desperately cling to it)
Why your client will often reject the idea that perfectionism is hurting them
Two toxic factors that can set a perfectionist up for depression
Why perfectionism so often presents with disrupted sleep

Why Perfectionism Turns to Addiction and How to Help Clients Break Free
Judson Brewer, MD, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

Michael Yapko, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD

The addiction pattern that keeps many clients locked in a drive for perfection
The perfectionist paradox: one way perfectionism actually promotes failure
A core missing skill that can keep a client addicted to perfection

How to Work With Shame and Perfectionism
Pat Ogden, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD Deany Laliotis, LICSW

Richard Schwartz, PhD Melanie Greenberg, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD

How perfectionism helps fuel a person’s feeling of “never good enough”
One powerful strategy to foster the inner compassion that can reduce shame
A body-centered approach for working with the painful feelings beneath perfectionism
How to defuse an inner critic that’s driving your client’s perfectionism

How to Work with Clients Paralyzed by Their Perfectionism
Shelly Harrell, PhD Steven Hayes, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

Why your client’s procrastination might be a hidden form of perfectionism
How perfectionism can shift clients from motivation to paralysis
The critical cost to a client who suffers perfection-driven paralysis

How to Target Perfectionism That’s Stuck in the Nervous System
Stephen Porges, PhD Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, EDM, PhD

Deb Dana, LCSW

How to help clients listen to the story their nervous system is telling them
The crucial link between perfectionism and early life attachment
The core vulnerability that can lead to an obsession with perfection
How the nervous system can trap a person in a perfection-isolation loop

How to Work with Perfectionism That’s Linked to Trauma
Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP Onno van der Hart, PhD

Ron Siegel, PsyD

How trauma strengthens the one core element that gives perfectionism its power
Why trauma-driven perfectionism can often be mis-assessed as a personality trait

Key Strategies for Working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Perfectionism
Pat Ogden, PhD Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT

How to help clients manage the OCD that’s keeping their perfectionism alive
A bottom-up approach to treating hyperarousal triggered by perfectionism
One technique to help a perfectionist safely experience mistakes

How to Help Clients Shift a Rigid Perfectionist Mindset
Zindel Segal, PhD Lynn Lyons, LICSW Michael Yapko, PhD

One crucial reason a client will hold onto perfectionism (even when it’s costing them)
How to help clients soften their rigid perfectionistic boundaries
How an overachiever will often assess imperfection (and why this keeps them stuck)