Are Your Clients Brilliant at People Pleasing But Long to Be Authentic?

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are." - Carl Jung

How can we best help people heal the people pleaser within and learn how to think, speak, and act from their authentic selves? We begin by articulating the roots of people pleasing, defining authenticity, differentiating the two different paradigms that “pleasers” and “authentics” live in, and identifying the essential variables that facilitate the development of being authentic in our work with people.

We can help those we treat make this journey to the extent that we are conscious of the people pleaser/authenticity relationship in ourselves. In this Web Conference we will focus on ourselves, our issues, and what we can develop in order to become increasingly effective with those we treat. Ultimately we will be concurrently working on ourselves and those in treatment. For example:

- How many of us want the people we treat to like us?
- How many of us do not say what we truly feel for fear of someone leaving treatment?
- How many of us feel abandoned when a person leaves therapy?

This web conference is intermediate instructional level and designed to help clinicians:

1. Identify and attune to a person's subtexts;
2. Describe strategies to open to a person's negative feelings toward the clinician (ie: hold a client's negative transference)
3. Increase our awareness of our counter-transference when people are very angry at us, hate us, leave therapy abruptly, act out their neediness, etc.;
4. Differentiate and Integrate—to hold and differentiate our own “pleaser” and “authentic”, as well as that of those in therapy, and then be able to link these differentiated parts. This results in increased integration and well-being for ourselves and those we are treating.

If you have any questions about this Web Conference or would like more information, please contact us here.

Continuing Education (CE) Information

1.5 CE credits will be provided by GoodTherapy.org for attending this web conference in its entirety.

GoodTherapy.org is also an Approved Education Provider by NAADAC, The Association for Addiction Professionals (provider #135463). Of the eight counselor skill groups ascribed to by NAADAC, this course is classified within counseling services.

GoodTherapy.org is an NBCC-Approved Continuing Education Provider (ACEPTM) and may offer NBCC-approved clock hours for events that meet NBCC requirements.

GoodTherapy.org is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. GoodTherapy.org maintains responsibility for this program and its content.

GoodTherapy.org, SW CPE is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #0395.

To receive CE credit hours for an archived event, you will need to complete a survey as well as a 12 or 15-question exam, verifying that you listened to or watched the event in its entirety. Archived CE events generally are considered "homestudy" by licensing boards.

Registration Information

Premium and Pro Membership with GoodTherapy includes access to this web conference at no additional cost, as well as other member benefits such as a profile listing in GoodTherapy's Therapist Directory. Not yet a member? Sign up for a Premium or Pro Membership, here.

Just want CE credits? Sign up for a monthly or annual CE Subscription with GoodTherapy to get unlimited access to our CE Program, including this event, other live CE web conferences, and hundreds of hours of homestudy courses.

Mental health professionals who are not members can attend this live web conference for $30.95 or access the homestudy recording for $15.50. Sign up here to purchase this CE course and earn a CE certificate.

If the event is canceled by GoodTherapy, registrants who purchased the event will be notified and the charge for the event will be refunded

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