Professional Collection
Collection sold as a complete set of 6 eBooks.
Mate Selection
$9.85
Explore how well you know and like yourself to gain a deeper perspective about your romantic mate selection. Analyze your level of comfort in describing your character and beauty to others. Deepen your understanding how denial impacted your relationship to yourself and with decision making. Apply new behaviors and beliefs. Not retreating into denial, and pursuing others of high value to connect with in your own life, you increase your competence in guiding clients. Elevating your own expectations increases what you advocate for with your clients. As you and your clients know how to love yourselves and protect from the interferences from immature others who rely on manipulation, you build confidence and peace. Life becomes more fun.
Stay or Go
$9.85
Explore your own background with difficult personalities. Analyze how you coped with being confused, how you formed beliefs, conscious and subconscious, that allowed you to function in complex relationships. Investigate how these beliefs shaped your expectations, identity and feeling of purpose. Understand how you used denial to make decisions when in difficult relationships. Your own self awareness deepens your ability to perceive and challenge client's use of denial, without judging, dismissing, or colluding with their self blaming narratives. Expand you and your client's narratives by digging into the manipulation tactics of others. Strategies are shared to help clients with identity differentiation. As you and your clients feel strong within, becoming one's own loving, authority figure, making complex decisions becomes much easier.
Sexuality
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Explore your relationship to your own sexuality by starting with an intergenerational exploration. How were your parents, grandparents and great-grandparents influenced, negatively and positively, regarding sexual issues? How did the denial or expression of this material directly impact your own relationship to your sexuality? Understanding how your arousal cues in specific stages of intimacy were influenced clarifies your own experience and deepens your skills with clients. Sexual therapy strategies, especially focusing on assessing and working through mind-body, somatic defense mechanisms that impact client’s performance issues is shared. Technical, detailed sex therapy is not covered.
Intimacy Tolerance
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Increasing enjoyment of your own relationship requires more care and concern than you give to your clients. Your self focus, however, increases your client effectiveness. Explore if you are happy in your relationship, or not, and why. Understanding how unresolved core wounds, denial, pleasure and worth impact your own expectations about Love Sex Trust increases your ability to be curious and challenging with clients. Couples therapy strategies and scripts shared.
Grief
$9.85
Increase your awareness and comfort with hard truths regarding loss, anger and betrayal in your life, without defaulting to performing as victim or rescuer of others. Explore how loss and anger, often unresolved and not recognized, has shaped expectations for your own relationships, about your client’s relationships and in managing your practice. Appreciating light and dark feelings equally, you’ll feel less burdened and more creative.
Estimated read time, 30 minutes
Optimization
$9.85
Guide yourself in career and life, keeping in mind the lifespan and developmental needs unique to a counselor. Avoid burnout by deepening your awareness about your own motivations and personal blind spots. Increase financial profits and reputation by solidifying business principles, including your brand and communication practices. Start out strong with new clients by incorporating motivational interviewing and concrete resources to help clients decrease overwhelm and clarify goals.
Estimated read time, 30 minutes