Live webinar details: September 23, 2025 | 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ET
Facilitator: Rana Pishva, PhD. C. Psych.
CE hours: 4
This training is suitable for:
- Mental Health Professionals: psychotherapists, counsellors, psychologists, social workers.
- Direct Service Workers: drop in workers, shelter and hostel workers.
- Other: Attachment-based interventions, Development of psychotherapy skills, CBT
Client age category: Professionals who work with adult populations.
Level of training: Introductory/Intermediate.
Description: This immersive webinar is designed for clinicians seeking practical strategies to navigate complex and often puzzling situations in therapy. Through a combination of lectures, case studies, facilitated discussion, and group exercises, this session integrates evidence-based practices and real-world experience to help clinicians confidently address challenging scenarios. All strategies presented are informed by research-backed principles from cognitive behavioural therapy and attachment-based interventions.
Themes covered include dispelling common myths and misconceptions clients bring from social media; addressing relational issues when the source of client distress is a third party (e.g., parent, partner, or child); challenges and clinical pitfalls when clients seek the therapist’s personal opinion or decision-making; and working with a client who feels “stuck”, or a client “over-identifies” with a self-made diagnosis. When time permits, participants can also ask about their own challenging situations for discussion.
Examples of topics covered:
- Responding to “pop psychology” and misinformation
- Working with the “Person not in the room”
- Navigating requests for therapist advice
- Clients feeling “stuck” or experiencing ambivalence, avoidance, and stagnation
- Managing rupture and fostering repair in the therapeutic relationship
- Client self-diagnosis
Learning objectives:
- Implement strategies to overcome barriers to therapeutic progress.
- Enhance skills in case conceptualization by effectively integrating cognitive behavioural and attachment-based theories.
- Recognize and manage ruptures in the therapeutic relationship.
- Effectively use practical strategies for working with relational issues when the client's distress involves a third party.
- Develop advanced listening skills by learning to notice and interpret discursive markers in client speech.
Register now to strengthen your clinical insight and expand your therapeutic toolkit with strategies designed for today’s most challenging therapy moments.
Registration fee: $300 | Student and group rates are available
Learn more and register at: https://cvent.me/PManaE
