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The Therapist’s Inner Critic: How We Can Calm Our Own Sense of Inadequacy in the Therapy Room: Video Course
The Therapist’s Inner Critic: How We Can Calm Our Own Sense of Inadequacy in the Therapy Room: Video Course
Our clients are not the only ones prone to being driven by inner critics. As psychotherapists and counsellors, we can be plagued by a continual inner critic, especially creating negative internal commentary about our therapeutic work; creating a sense of inadequacy and impacting our work and overall well-being. The inherent pressures on therapists to “produce” a successful treatment in a short time with complicated clients, to see the maximum amount of clients, to know many different approaches, to not make serious mistakes, as well as our own tendencies toward achievement and perfection can activate our inner critics in unhelpful ways.
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We can then be prone to feeling inadequate, ashamed, less successful than our peers, and feel less-than-perfect about our professional selves. This online workshop conducted by luminary psychotherapist and world leading expert on complex trauma will offer reflections on how – we can understand and work with our own inner criticism, shame and protections against shame, and the inadequacy that often comes with working with highly complex clients.
This practical, three-hour online workshop which would be relevant for psychotherapists, counsellors, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers, will explore how these inner aspects develop in the therapist, and understand their several functions of protection, avoidance, and attempts to cope with feelings of uncertainty, pressure to perform, and inadequacy. Participants will have an opportunity to explore their own inner critic, understand its intended adaptive functions, and befriend it.
Through examples and self-reflection, delegates will learn to:
- Identify their own inner critic and ways to calm self-criticism, particularly in their role as the therapist
- Learn how the therapist’s inner critic can impact the therapy
- Learn the key functions of inner critics
- Identify the importance of compassionate self-reflection in working with inner critics
- Learn specific approaches to calm the inner critic
The workshop is consistent with and would be a beneficial adjunct to multiple modalities of psychotherapy or specialised trauma therapy (including analytical, dynamic and somatic approaches, cognitive behavioural and EMDR).
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- Presented by world-class speaker(s)
- Handouts and video recording
- 3 hrs of professionally produced lessons
- 1 year access to video recorded version
- CPD / CE Certificate
- Join from anywhere in the world
This practical, three-hour online workshop which would be relevant for psychotherapists, counsellors, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers, will explore how these inner aspects develop in the therapist, and understand their several functions of protection, avoidance, and attempts to cope with feelings of uncertainty, pressure to perform, and inadequacy. Participants will have an opportunity to explore their own inner critic, understand its intended adaptive functions, and befriend it.
Learning objectives
- List the key functions of inner critics
- Identify the importance of compassionate self-reflection in working with inner critics
- Discuss specific approaches to calm the inner critic
Kathy Steele, MN, CS has been treating complex trauma, dissociation, and attachment issues since 1985. She is in private practice with Metropolitan Psychotherapy Services and is Adjunct Faculty at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, US. Kathy is a Past President and Fellow of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (ISSTD), and has also previously served on the Board of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS). She has been involved with developing treatment guidelines for Dissociative Disorders and well as for Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Kathy has received a number of awards for her work, including the 2010 Lifetime Achievement Award from ISSTD, an Emory University Distinguished Alumni Award in 2006, and the 2011 Cornelia B. Wilbur Award for Outstanding Clinical Contributions. She is known for her humour, compassion, respect, and depth of knowledge as a clinician and a teacher, and for her capacity to present complex issues in easily understood and clear ways using an integrative psychotherapy model that draws from both traditional and somatic approaches. She is sought as a consultant and supervisor, and as an international lecturer.
She has co-authored three books as part of the acclaimed Norton Series on Interpersonal Neurobiology: The Haunted Self: Structural dissociation of the personality and chronic traumatization (2006, Van der Hart, Nijenhuis, & Steele – W. W. Norton); Coping with trauma-related dissociation: Skills training for patients and therapists (2011, Boon, Steele, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton); and most recently, Treating trauma-related dissociation: A practical, integrative approach (2017, Steele, Boon, & Van der Hart – W. W. Norton). She has also (co)authored numerous book chapters and journal articles.
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