But shame, guilt, and self-criticism play a critical role in these problems and can dramatically disrupt therapy. You worry that you’ll fail to convince clients who feel unworthy that they deserve a better life.
Pavel Somov – 2-Day Intensive Training
Shame, Guilt and Motivational Apathy as Impediments to Clinical Progress​
Therapy as a trigger and affect avoidance
Clinical impasses (underutilization, stagnation, premature termination)
Shame, guilt and a sense of not-deserving
Secrets from self and from therapist
Tools for Catalyzing Progress in Therapy
Normalizing, de-pathologizing, un-diagnosing
Dialectic reframing & evolutionary psychology
Mindfulness & metacognition
Self-acceptance & self-compassion
Neuroplasticity of internalization
Shame: Clinical Techniques to Move Therapy Forward
Debunking the myth of self-sabotage
Manage outside judgement with a self-referenced identity
Techniques to negate sweeping generalizations
Foster self-forgiveness with motivational innocence
Guilt: Help Clients Overcome the Debts of Guilt
Differentiate guilt from regret
Ordinary perfection & self-acceptance
Master the fear of making mistakes
Self-Doubt, Dilemmas & Indecision: Interventions for Clients Paralyzed by Uncertainty
Normalizing strategies to dissipate self-doubt
Manage the anxiety of unpredictability with uncertainty training
Make decisions easier with the art of arbitrary choice
Reframe a dilemma as a choice between two rights
Motivational Apathy & Self-Inefficacy: Strategies to Improve Motivation and Autonomy
Find a reason-to-change with the change equation
Techniques that leverage intrinsic motivation
Find freedom-to-change with Choice Awareness Training (CAT)
Pattern interruption for habit change – get clients off autopilot
Self-Criticism and Self-Stigmatization: Quiet Your Client’s Inner Critic
Varieties of self-deprecation (self-criticism, self-loathing, etc.)
Techniques to reframe symptoms as strengths
Compassion exercises for problematic habits of self-care
Recover from the disease model
Working through Affect Avoidance
Exposure, mindfulness & metacognition
Top-down & bottom-up emotional self-regulation
Cue-conditioning of self-Regulation
Connect Specific Strategies to the Treatment of:
Trauma
Damaged goods, survivor’s guilt & avoidance of conflict
Somatic interventions to restore the original goodness
Strategies to survive without guilt
Conflict avoidance: Paper tigers v. real tigers
Exercises to rediscover self-worth
Stress and Anxiety
Mediate the paralysis of perfection with self-acceptance
Non-neurotic, stress-free perfectionism
Social anxiety as shame & self-doubt: disapproval inoculation & self-referencing
Mindfulness-based, non-anxious self-consciousness
Emotional Eating & Binge Eating
How shame pushes clients into binge eating
Choice Awareness Training for moderation & presence
Self-acceptance strategies for emotional eating
Transcend body shame by dis-identifying from the physical
Anger
Shame of fear: Shame as a cover for anger
The vicious guilt-anger loop
Self-acceptance techniques for internal damage control
Compassion exercises to let go of anger
Depression
Depression as self-exile
Shame as a risk factor for suicide
Mindfulness for managing rumination
Metacognitive silence: From negative self-talk to selfaccepting non-talk
Substance Abuse
Addressing the shame of relapse
Self-assertive trigger avoidance
Choice awareness techniques for habit modification
Build craving/impulse control skill power
Betrayal, Secrecy & Deception
Separation & divorce as self-care & progress
Secrets from therapist without rupture of rapport
De-pathologizing the motives behind lying & deception
Research, Limitations and Potential Risks
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Description:
There’s no better feeling than providing relief from suffering. From the chronically stressed, to those grappling with trauma, dysfunctional relationships with food, substance use issues or anger  you love the fulfillment of making a difference.
But shame, guilt, and self-criticism play a critical role in these problems and can dramatically disrupt therapy. You worry that you’ll fail to convince clients who feel unworthy that they deserve a better life. And you’re left frustrated, drained and unsure what will move therapy forward when fears about failure and inadequacy create a state of paralysis in shame-driven and self-critical clients.
This recording will give you the skills and tools you need to end the tyrannical hold of shame, guilt and self-criticism and empower your clients to develop the acceptance of themselves, others and reality necessary for the effective treatment of trauma, stress, anxiety, depression, binge eating, substance use, and anger issues.
Experience the satisfaction of greater therapeutic success when you can help clients release unhealthy shame and cultivate the self-acceptance they need to move toward a brighter future!
Here’s What You’ll Get in Pavel Somov – 2-Day Intensive Training
