Language and attitude is vital when helping clients transcend their self-sabotage during therapy.
Dealing With Difficult Clients Articles by Mark Tyrrell
Let’s face it, some clients are just harder to work with. Some clients have us racking our brains wondering just how we can serve them best. In this section I’ve written about how we might best work with the more difficult clients. So here you’ll find articles all the way from how to work with the narcissistic client all the way to trying to help the avoidant and overly analytical clients.
Crisis Intervention: 5 Critical Steps
What causes an emotional crisis and how can we successfully manage it? Here are five ways to handle a client in crisis, so you can feel confident in your crisis intervention skills.
How to Avoid Making Your Client Resistant
It’s important to be solution-focused with our clients. They need and deserve that from us. But we know that forcing ‘positive thinking’ upon resistant clients who don’t feel positive can clash with a negatively biased person’s beliefs. Here are three of the ways you can use indirect but powerful communication with any client.
Working with Resistant Clients: 3 Tried and Tested Tips
What feeling like pushing a client out the window taught me about dealing with resistance in therapy.
How to Open Your Client’s Mind for Change
How to use gossip (yes really) to help your therapy client.
Does Your Client Psycho-babble?
3 techniques for dealing with difficult therapy clients who are ‘experts’ and have heard it all before.
How to Build Rapid Rapport with Even the Most Difficult Clients
The utilization principle appeals to an individual’s unique personality traits and interests to bring about change
3 Firm Fair Ways To Set Boundaries In Therapy
Setting boundaries with clients doesn’t come naturally to therapy practitioners. Empathy and wanting to help people is what brought you to this work, and for us it’s hard to be cruel to be kind.
1 Strange Swift Way To Help Your Difficult Clients Really Want To Change
We’ve all had difficult clients, angrily resistant to your presence. Here’s one way I help mine meet their therapy goals.
