Date: Monday, April 27, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 3:00 PM EST
Cost: $65
Format: Live Virtual Training via Zoom
CEUs: No CEUs offered | Certificate of Completion provided upon submission of Post-Training Evaluation
About This Training
Every clinician—no matter how skilled, seasoned, or spacious—has had moments where the work feels…stuck. The client is circling the same narrative, shutting down, withdrawing, or resisting. Or maybe you notice an internal shift: frustration, over-functioning, emotional fatigue, or the quiet discomfort of working out of alignment. Sometimes the stuckness comes from the client. Sometimes it comes from us. Most often, it's both.
This expanded, three-hour training picks up where Part 1 left off—going deeper into each stuck point, making space for live demonstration, and creating room for your real clinical questions. Drawing from trauma-informed frameworks, Internal Family Systems (IFS), somatic awareness, and anti-oppressive clinical practice, we'll explore the forces that create shutdown, resistance, and therapeutic impasse—and what it actually takes to move through them.
This time, we're also naming what often goes unspoken: the clients whose self-awareness and cognitive sophistication can mask their own stuckness, the clinicians who miss what they can't yet see, and the neurodivergent presentations—diagnosed and undiagnosed—that quietly drive some of the most challenging clinical moments in the room.
What We'll Explore
Deepening the Stuck Points: We'll spend more time with each stuck point from Part 1, allowing for richer exploration, clinical nuance, and real-time application through micro live demonstrations.
Blindspots: When Cognitive Parts Cover the Wound Some clients arrive fluent in the language of therapy—insightful, articulate, and apparently self-aware. We'll examine how cognitive parts and intellectual defenses can obscure deeper stuck points, and what it takes to see past the performance of healing.
Working with Highly Emotional and Highly Sensitive Clients: We'll explore the clinical complexity of working with clients who feel everything deeply—how to remain regulated, attuned, and effective without becoming overwhelmed or inadvertently reinforcing shutdown.
Neurodivergence, the Undiagnosed, and the Clients Who "Wreck" Our Methods: Some of the most confusing stuck points in clinical work are rooted in neurodivergent nervous systems we haven't named. We'll take an honest look at demand avoidance, rejection sensitivity dysphoria, and the particular challenges of working with undiagnosed neurodivergent clients—and how our frameworks sometimes fail them before we even notice.
The Clinician's Inner Landscape: We'll continue examining the parts we bring into the room: rescuers, fixers, defenders, over-identifiers, avoiders, and performers—and how clinician life circumstances quietly shape our presence and our blind spots.
Learning Objectives
By the end of this training, participants will be able to:
- Identify and differentiate at least three sources of clinical stuckness—client-related, clinician-related, and systemic/relational
- Describe how each contributes to resistance, shutdown, or therapeutic impasse.
- Analyze a minimum of three clinician-side contributors to stuck points, including compassion fatigue, countertransference, over-identification.
Recognize how cognitive parts, intellectual defense can serve as coverings for deeper stuck points, and identify at least two approaches for working beneath them.
- Describe clinical considerations for working with highly sensitive and neurodivergent clients
- Demonstrate at least three evidence-informed interventions for resolving therapeutic impasses, including relational repair, self-attunement practices, and collaborative exploration.
Who This Training Is For
Licensed mental health professionals, clinical supervisors, counselors, social workers, psychologists, and student interns who want honest, liberatory, and compassionate space to reflect, learn, and reconnect to their clinical intuition and Self-led presence. Part 1 attendance is helpful but not required.
What You'll Leave With
A deepened understanding of how and why therapeutic impasses occur—and the specific presentations that most often go unnamed. Language to identify your internal experience when the work gets hard. Somatic and relational tools to restore flow, safety, and connection. Greater confidence navigating resistance, shutdown, clinical ambiguity, and the clients who challenge your methods most. A renewed sense of alignment and purpose in your work.
Format
This is a live, virtual training held via Zoom. Come with your food, sensory items, your questions, and the parts of you that are tired, curious, or ready to go deeper.
Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)
This training is committed to accessibility and ADA compliance. Participants requiring accommodations are encouraged to submit requests in advance. The Provider is dedicated to ensuring an inclusive learning environment for all participants and will promptly address accommodation requests in alignment with federal, state, and local ADA guidelines.