Build Trust with Your Clients while Learning to Skillfully Offer Optimally Stressful Conditions that Lead to Change

By the end of this course, you will be able to:

  • Identify three main therapeutic factors that will help you build trust while offering optimally stressful conditions in your work with clients.

  • Describe the sand pile model and its application in psychotherapy.

  • Define optimal stress and its benefits in advancing therapeutic efforts.

  • Identify the two key components of conflict statements that contribute to providing optimal stress.

  • Create at least three conflict statements that encourage change.

General Information

This multimedia self-study course is designed for therapists who are looking for a brief training in offering optimally stressful conditions that precipitate change. With experiential exercises and vignettes, we teach you to learn from the inside out - creating generative experiences that allow you to directly apply relational wisdom within the therapeutic context. Although suitable for advanced practitioners, it is also accessible to early career mental health professionals and pre-professionals.

  • 2 CEs

    For LMFT’s, LCSW’s, LPCC’s and LEP’s as required by the California Board of Behavioral Sciences.

    Best suited for early career professionals, but especially exciting to those looking to enhance their theoretical approaches with self-refection, self-awareness, mindfulness, and personal/professional growth. Please Note: CEs are awarded for instructional time only.

  • Self-paced Multimedia Course

    Multimedia: Video, Audio, and Text files for Each Lesson

  • Practical assignments and exercises are part of the curriculum as well as practical learning experiences with case examples, exercises, and meditations. References are included for further study.

Curriculum

Integrative in its approach, the course curriculum includes insights from psychoanalysis, psychodynamic psychotherapy, and mindfulness-based interventions, including perspectives from Martha Stark, Paul Ornstein, Dan Siegel, Darlene Ehrenberg, Leslie S. Greenberg, Laura N. Rice, and Robert Elliott.

  • Main Video Presentation: Building Trust: The Roles of Support & Challenge

  • Applications of Concepts Presented

  • Video on Key Component of Support: Nonjudgment

  • Video on Key Component of Support: Radical Acceptance

  • Exercise on Applying Attunement, Compassion, and Nonjudgment

  • The Fulcrum of Optimal Stress: Conflict Statements

  • Examples of Conflict Statements with Patients

  • Writing Exercise: Create Conflict Statements

  • Challenges to Building Trust

  • Next Steps for CE Credit and PDF Certificate

How Will You Enhance Your Professional Skills with Us?

  • Holding Both Curriculum

    Our instructors will guide you through your online core curriculum and experiential exercises at your own pace.

    Each part of the curriculum includes a Video Presentation, Infographics, Summary of Presentation, Vignettes, Exercises, Curated Supplemental Readings and Videos, and References.

  • Vignettes and Case Studies

    Case examples are included to highlight the themes of the material.

  • Exercises and Meditations

    You will have a chance to explore and apply the material to your practice through the exercises and meditations provided.

Instructors

Tamara Thebert

Lead Instructor

Tamara Thebert, MFT is the CEO, Co-Founder, and an Instructor at Inner Science Institute. She uses her 17+ years of experience to support clinicians to deepen and expand their self-awareness by learning from the inside out. Tamara holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Women’s Studies with a concentration in Art and Psychology from Knox College, a Master’s Degree in Integral Counseling Psychology from California Institute of Integral Studies, and a Certification in Hypnotherapy (Spiritual Counseling emphasis) from Foundation of the Sacred Stream. She is currently enrolled in Tara Brach and Jack Kornfield’s Mindfulness Meditation Teacher Certification Program, a two-year training in awareness and compassion-based practices. Tamara has training and certificates in integral counseling psychology, neurobiologically-informed trauma treatment, mindful self-compassion, meditation, spiritual counseling, energy medicine, women’s spirituality, grief and bereavement, shamanic counseling, ecopsychology, and permaculture. Since 2004, she has studied and trained in spiritual and psychological traditions from all over the globe. Tamara teaches spiritual principles and practices specifically tailored to improve mental and emotional health and encourage spiritual awakening. In her private practice Tamara specializes in helping women recognize & amplify inner resources to recover from trauma, anxiety, stress, and distress while attending to the important relationships in their lives. To find out more about her psychotherapy practice, go to www.psychospiritualcounseling.net. Tamara offers mindfulness-based clinical consultation via Zoom. For more information, go to www.psychospiritualcounseling.net/mindfulness-based-consultation/.

Deborah Yarock

Lead Instructor

Deborah Yarock, MFT is the co-founder of Inner Science Institute (InSci), providing courses and events for lifelong learners as well as mental health professionals interested in fulfilling continuing education units. An integrative institute informed by the inner sciences of psychology and spirituality, InSci offers transdisciplinary education and training to those interested in personal transformation, social change, and spiritual awakening. Deborah has degrees and training in integral counseling psychology, psychological process work, re-evaluation counseling, and extensive experience in all phases of addiction treatment. Since 1995, while teaching and mentoring pre-professionals in the field community mental health, Deborah expanded services by developing and running practicum sites. She has also created avenues to advance cultural competency, address stress and vicarious trauma, and encourage comprehensive grief support. Throughout her career, Deborah has respected and addressed the practical realities of life alongside deeper identity and soul-searching aspects of therapeutic work. To find out more about her psychotherapy practice, go to www.deborahyarockmft.com.

Our Risk-Free Learning Guarantee

At times, a course may not align with your specific needs or preferred learning style. If the course or program you purchase fails to meet your expectations, we offer two options to ensure your satisfaction.

Option 1: Course Replacement

Within 60 days of your purchase date, you can opt to replace the course with another of your choice. This option applies as long as the course has not been more than 50% completed. We understand that different individuals have distinct preferences, and we are committed to finding the right fit for you.


Option 2: Full Refund

Alternatively, you have the opportunity to receive a full refund within 30 days of your purchase date. This option is available as long as the course has not been more than 50% completed. We value your trust and want to ensure your utmost satisfaction with our offerings.


We stand behind our commitment to provide exceptional learning experiences and we strive to accommodate your unique needs. Contact us at [email protected] with “Refund Request” in the subject line to begin the process.


Accommodations

To request accommodations for special needs, please email the Program Administrator at [email protected].

Grievances

To obtain the grievance policy or report a grievance please email Tamara @ [email protected].