Digital Seminar
When Therapy Gets Stuck: Over 30 Strategies for Helping Clients Move Forward from Trauma, Grief, Addiction, and More
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- Faculty:
- Chris Gazdik, BSW, MSW, LCSW
- Duration:
- 6 Hours 07 Minutes
- Copyright:
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Jun 06, 2025
- Product Code:
- POS059972
- Media Type:
- Digital Seminar
Description
You sense your work with a client has hit a wall…
Where sessions used to end with a feeling of accomplishment, they now end with one or both of you feeling frustrated and discouraged.
Join Chris Gazdik, LCSW, highly experienced counselor, presenter, and author for this experiential (and entertaining!) one-of-a-kind workshop where you will learn to effectively break through barriers to therapeutic progress.
This strategy-packed workshop was created specifically to address the internal conflict between wanting to hang on to the past and needing to move forward, the role of addictions, and the challenges involved in breaking the cycle of unresolved feelings that result in “stuckness.”
You will walk away with:
- Must-use techniques drawn from CBT, ACT, motivational interviewing, and mindfulness-based psychotherapy models to overcome stuck points in therapy
- Values-driven goal-setting strategies for trauma and grief processing, substance use disorders, and persistent emotional responses such as fear, shame, and regret
- Strategies to leverage the therapeutic relationship to break through therapeutic barriers
REGISTER TODAY to gain the tools you need to help your clients overcome barriers to progress and move toward healing.
Credit
Handouts
| File type | File name | Number of pages | |
|---|---|---|---|
| When Therapy Gets Stuck (2.1 MB) | 56 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| When Therapy Gets Stuck - French (2.1 MB) | 56 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| When Therapy Gets Stuck - Italian (2.1 MB) | 56 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| When Therapy Gets Stuck - German (2.1 MB) | 56 Pages | Available after Purchase | |
| When Therapy Gets Stuck - Spanish (2.1 MB) | 56 Pages | Available after Purchase |
Faculty
Chris Gazdik, BSW, MSW, LCSW Related seminars and products
Christopher Gazdik, BSW, MSW, LCSW, is the author of Through a Therapist’s Eyes: Reunderstanding Emotions and Becoming Your Best Self, and Through a Therapist’s Eyes Volume 2: Reunderstanding Your Marriage and Becoming Your Best as a Spouse, podcaster, and popular speaker who is known for his energetic and passionate presentation style.
Chris has over 25 years of experience as a mental health and substance abuse therapist and has founded two therapy companies. He also serves as a preceptor for nursing and physician assistant programs, has published over 220 episodes of the Through a Therapist’s Eyes podcast, and is a sought-after presenter on a variety of topics.
Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Christopher Gazdik is the founder of Metrolina Psychotherapy Associates and is a preceptor with Garner Webb University. He is a podcaster with Through a Therapist's Eyes. Christopher Gazdik receives a speaking honorarium from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Christopher Gazdik has no relevant non-financial relationships.
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Objectives
- Identify the neurobiological mechanisms behind therapeutic “stuckness.”
- Choose trust and rapport-building activities to address therapist misattunement.
- Utilize motivational interviewing strategies to uncover hidden motivations.
- Utilize cognitive strategies to manage the fear of change.
- Develop acceptance in the context of grief through activities exploring the meaning of loss.
- Use values identification to replace negative coping skills.
Outline
STUCKNESS IN THERAPY
- Sticking points in the brain
- The power of an accurate diagnosis
- Red flags and tools to help clients identify stuckness
- Tools to differentiate the cause of stuckness
HOW TO GET UNSTUCK
Correct Therapist Misattunement Build (or repair) therapeutic alliance
- Activity: Trust and rapport-building options
- Skill: Cultural humility
- Skill: Address the “threat” of therapy
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Work with Secondary Gains
Outweigh the benefits of staying the same
- Activity: Explore and acknowledge hidden motivations
- Exercise: Envision alternate futures
- Skill: Top motivational interviewing strategies to empower clients
- Case conceptualization: Ask the right questions
Rescue the Hijacked Amygdala
Get out of survival mode
- Handout: Hijack the freeze response
- Psychoeducation: The dorsal-vagal response to trauma and grief
- Body work: 5 on-the-spot somatic strategies for relaxation and grounding
- Exercise: Fear validation
Address Cognitive Immobility
Break free from the trap of the past
- Activity: Values-driven goal setting
- Process: The REACH Model of forgiveness
- Exercise: Must-use mindfulness strategies for the here-and-now
- Handout: Three defusion techniques to reduce misguided guilt, fear, and insecurities
- Activity: Thought changing
Face the Hopelessness of Grief
Move towards acceptance
- Activity: The meaning of loss
- Handout: The Tasks of Grieving
- Psychoeducation: Awareness, acceptance, action
Replace Negative Coping Skills
Trade instant gratification for longlasting positive outcomes
- Psychoeducation: Acceptance vs avoidance
- Activity: Values identification to address addictions
- Activity: The Three C’s of CBT
- Skill: Safely open the emotional floodgate
- Handout: Set healthy boundaries
- Interactive case study
Target Audience
- Counselors
- Social Workers
- Marriage and Family Therapists
- Addiction Counselors
- Behavioral Health Nurses
- Psychologists
- Other Mental Health Professionals
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