Your Most Difficult Case: Navigating the Therapist-Client Relationship

Working with clients challenges us to adapt in a changing world and industry and maintain a high standard of care. This workshop will have didactic and experiential components. We will explore the impact of a changing culture and the impact on clients and therapists. Our changing world and industry bring with it different limitations and opportunities. We will explore strategies for addressing your personal life experiences and how they impact working with clients. This goes beyond transference-countertransference issues and impacts how we provide therapeutic care.

Learning Objectives

• Increase self-awareness of what I bring to the therapeutic encounter

• Strategies for assessing and managing my personal experience with a client as a therapist

• Identifying triggers that are likely to impede the therapeutic encounter with a client

• Identify challenges of ever-changing culture and the impact on different populations and the presentation of issues.

• Understanding your personal scope of practice: limitations and opportunities

Richard Blankenship, LPC has worked in the industry for over 25 years. He is a licensed professional counselor, nationally certified counselor, certified clinical hypnotherapist, certified betrayal trauma specialist, certified sexual and relational trauma therapist, and a certified problematic sexual behavior therapist.

Sarah Ramsay, LMFT, BC-TMH has experience working with adolescents, adults, families and couples in a variety of areas, including anxiety, depression, panic attacks, trauma, relationship concerns and general stress. Specifically, she has training in EMDR, a style of therapy recognized by the American Psychiatric Association that enable people to heal from the stubborn symptoms and emotional distress resulting from troubling life experiences. Sarah has training in Emotionally Focused Therapy, which primarily works to restore romantic relationships and has been found to be effective between family members as well and is a Prepare Enrich therapist for Premarital counseling. Sarah is also a Board Certified Telemental Health Provider (BC-TMH) and can offer services online outside of the Atlanta area.

Host or Publisher Capstone Counseling and Coaching