6 Ideas for Working with Resistance

Resistance can be a very difficult issue in the therapeutic relationship. It can end therapy prematurely, and negatively affect the communication between you and your client. So, how do we deal with this? Well according to Bessel van der Kolk, Peter Levine, and several other colleagues, this resistance serves a purpose – and might actually be a good thing. These six ideas can give you new ways of looking at resistance, and new strategies for working through it. I hope you’ll find these insights useful.

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Working With Resistant Clients: 5 More Tried and Tested Techniques

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NPD Therapy in Action | Consult w/ Dr. Karen Jacob & Tessa (NPD dx)

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Trauma Expert: How to Rebuild Self-Identity After Years of Shame - Tim Fletcher

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How To Handle Difficult People & Take Back Your Peace and Power

Peter A Levine, PhD on Shame - Interview by Caryn Scotto D'Luzia
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Peter A Levine, PhD on Shame - Interview by Caryn Scotto D'Luzia

Working with Resistant Clients
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Working with Resistant Clients

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Trauma and the Nervous System (and strategies to work with it)

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Treating Trauma: 2 Ways to Help Clients Feel Safe, with Peter Levine

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5 Tips to Stop Therapy Clients Missing Appointments 🕰️

Bessel van der Kolk - how to detoxify the body from trauma
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Bessel van der Kolk - how to detoxify the body from trauma

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Dealing with Client Resistance: 4 Therapy Approaches

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The 7 Types of Rest That Help You Truly Recover from Complex Trauma

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How To Think SO CLEARLY People Assume You're A Genius

Dr. Peter Levine on working through a personal traumatic experience
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Dr. Peter Levine on working through a personal traumatic experience

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The Body Trauma Expert: This Eye Movement Trick Can Fix Your Trauma! The Body Keeps The Score!

#27: "What NOT to do in therapy!  Learning from our common mistakes" - Mick Cooper, Ph.D.
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#27: "What NOT to do in therapy! Learning from our common mistakes" - Mick Cooper, Ph.D.

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Why Therapy Clients Say "I Don’t Know” and How to Respond

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Restoring your Internal Sense of Safety after Trauma w/ CPTSD Expert Dr. Arielle Schwartz

Healing Trauma & How the Body Keeps the Score | Dr Bessel van der Kolk
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Healing Trauma & How the Body Keeps the Score | Dr Bessel van der Kolk

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Where Clients with Complex Trauma Tend to Get Stuck in Reprocessing and How to Use Interweaves