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How to Help Your Client Build Distress Tolerance (with Practical Skills They Can Use in Real Time)
Emotional distress – it’s messy, it’s painful, even overwhelming. Most of us will do anything to just not feel it. But here’s the thing . . .
When a client can’t tolerate difficult emotions, it can cost them dearly.
It can trap them in fear and loneliness. It can wreak havoc on their most precious relationships. And it can lead them to “numb out” and try to escape the pain through substance abuse, binge-eating, excessive sleeping, and even self-harm.
Not only that, but when a crisis hits, the inability to tolerate painful emotions can send your client spiraling even further into avoidant behaviors that only ramp up their distress.
But how do you “sell” clients on the idea that usually, the way out of distress is through it?
And beyond that, how do you help them lean in to the experience of distress so they can learn to tolerate it – instead of relying on harmful coping strategies that only make their lives worse?
We turned to 21 of the world’s top experts to hear how they work with clients to help them develop greater distress tolerance. Here are their best strategies that you can start using with your clients today.
Expert Strategies to Help Clients Develop Tolerance for Emotional Distress
Understanding Difficult Emotions at the Level of the Nervous System
Christine Padesky, PhD Deb Dana, LCSW
Rick Hanson, PhD Janina Fisher, PhD
- What’s Going On In the Nervous System When Your Client Seems Unable to Tolerate Distress
- Two Common Missteps in Working with Hypoarousal (and How to Avoid Them)
Expert Strategies to Help Clients Build Distress Tolerance in the Aftermath of Trauma
Christine Padesky, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
Janina Fisher, PhD Laurel Parnell, PhD
- Three Priorities When Helping Traumatized Clients Learn to Tolerate Distress – and How to Achieve Them
- The Counterintuitive First Step to Building Distress Tolerance After Trauma
- Three Strategies to Help Your Client Regain a Sense of Control After Trauma
How to Help Clients Tolerate What Feels Intolerable (and Why This Critical Skill Is Key for Healing)
Peter Levine, PhD Shelly Harrell, PhD Kelly Wilson, PhD
Christine Padesky, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD Miguel Gallardo, PsyD
Deany Laliotis, LICSW Charles Ridley, PhD
- The Go-To Strategy Many Clients Use to Manage Distress (and What It’s Costing Them)
- Four Specific Factors That Can Transform Your Client’s Ability to Tolerate Distress
- A 2-Step Approach to Help Your Client Cultivate Resilience
How to “Sell” Clients on the Benefits of Tolerating Distress (When It’s the Last Thing They Want to Feel)
Shelly Harrell, PhD Miguel Gallardo, PsyD
Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT Ron Siegel, PsyD Christine Padesky, PhD
- The Four Specific Costs of Avoiding Distress
- One Idea That Can Challenge Your Client’s Impulse to Avoid Feeling Distress
- Key Questions to Help Clients Connect to a Different Future and Spur Life-Changing Action
How to Help Clients Recognize Whether They’re Experiencing Stress or Distress (and Why This Distinction Can Be So Important)
Kelly Wilson, PhD Michael Yapko, PhD
Rick Hanson, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
- What We Really Mean When We Talk About “Healthy Stress”
- Two Cognitive Skills That Can Be Critical for Building Distress Tolerance
- The Crucial Link Between Decision-Making and Distress Tolerance (and How to Frame It for Your Client)
How to Create a Personalized Plan to Boost Your Client’s Distress Tolerance Skills
Christopher Willard, PsyD Zindel Segal, PhD Shelly Harrell, PhD
Ron Siegel, PsyD Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
Christine Padesky, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD
- One Way to Shift Your Client Out of a Hyper-Focus on Their Distress
- A 4-Step Exercise to Help Your Client Break Down Exactly What They’re Feeling When Distress Takes Over
- Specific Grounding and Anchoring Skills Clients Can Use to Pull Themselves Out of Emotional Distress
- Contraindications for Using Grounding Strategies
How to Grow Your Client’s Capacity to Manage Distress
Peter Levine, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD Bonnie Goldstein, PhD
- Three “Containment” Exercises to Help Your Client Build Endurance in the Face of Distress
- How to Help Your Client Create Strategies They Can Use to Ease Distress (Even Outside of Sessions)
- Two Ways to Help Clients Develop Tools to Self-Regulate
How to Help Clients Co-Regulate to Dial Down Distress That’s Wreaking Havoc on Their Relationships
Ron Siegel, PsyD Christine Padesky, PhD Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
- How an Overreliance on This One Specific Habit Can Cause Relationship Problems
- A 3-Step Approach to Help Your Client Shift into Co-Regulation (and Why This Shift Is So Essential)
- Two Experiential Approaches to Help Couples Learn to Work Through Distress Together
Creative Interventions to Transform Your Client’s Ability to Tolerate Distress
Joan Borysenko, PhD Christine Padesky, PhD
Ron Siegel, PsyD Lynn Lyons, LICSW
- An Incremental Approach to Help Clients Use Imagery to Relieve Distress
- One Powerful (But Often Overlooked) Resource That Can Boost Your Client’s Distress Tolerance Skills
- Two Ways to Help Your Client Recognize Their Distress Is Temporary (Even When It Might Not Feel That Way)
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For This Short Course, We Brought Together Some of the Top Experts in the Field
Peter Levine, PhD
Founder of Somatic Experiencing; Author of Trauma and Memory: Brain and Body in a Search for the Living Past: A Practical Guide for Understanding and Working with Traumatic Memory.
Pat Ogden, PhD
Pioneer in Somatic Psychology; Founder and Director of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy Institute (SPI); Co-founder of the Hakomi Institute; Author of Sensorimotor Psychotherapy: Interventions for Trauma and Attachment.
Shelly Harrell, PhD
Licensed psychologist specializing in multicultural and community psychology; Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at Pepperdine University.
Miguel Gallardo, PsyD
Licensed Psychologist specializing in multicultural and social justice; Associate Professor at Pepperdine University’s Graduate School of Education and Psychology; author of Case Studies in Multicultural Counseling and Therapy.
Joan Borysenko, PhD
Founder of Mind/Body Health Sciences LLC; Author of New York Times Bestseller Minding the Body, Mending the Mind.
Ron Siegel, PsyD
Assistant Professor of Psychology, part time, Harvard Medical School; Author of The Mindfulness Solution: Everyday Practices for Everyday Problems and Sitting Together: Essential Skills for Mindfulness-Based Psychotherapy.
Zindel Segal, PhD
A founder of Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT); Professor of Psychology at the University of Toronto.
Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT
Co-developer of Solution-Oriented Therapy; Psychotherapist, speaker, and author of Do One Thing Different: Ten Simple Ways to Change Your Life.
Christine Padesky, PhD
Co-founder of the Center for Cognitive Therapy in Huntington Beach, California; Co-creator of Strengths-Based CBT; Co-author of Mind Over Mood and Collaborative Case Conceptualization.
Michael Yapko, PhD
Leading expert in clinical hypnosis and treating depression; Clinical psychologist and author of 15 books including his newest books, The Discriminating Therapist and Keys to Unlocking Depression.
Rick Hanson, PhD
Senior Fellow of the Greater Good Science Center at UC Berkeley; New York Times bestselling author of Hardwiring Happiness and Buddha’s Brain.
Christopher Willard, PsyD
Psychologist and educational consultant specializing in mindfulness; president of the Mindfulness in Education Network; serves on the board of directors at the Institute for Meditation and Psychotherapy.
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Founder of the PACT Training Institute and developer of a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT).
Deany Laliotis, LICSW
Director of Training at EMDR Institute; Specialist in treatment of traumatic stress disorders and attachment issues; author of chapters and articles on EMDR therapy.
Janina Fisher, PhD
Licensed clinical psychologist and Instructor at the Trauma Center, an outpatient clinic and research center founded by Bessel van der Kolk, MD; past president of the New England Society for the Treatment of Trauma and Dissociation.
Kelly Wilson, PhD
Co-author of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: An Experiential Approach to Behavior Change; Founder of OneLife Education Training, LLC.
Lynn Lyons, LICSW
Author of Anxious Kids, Anxious Parents: 7 Ways to Stop the Worry Cycle and Raise Courageous & Independent Children, clinical social worker and psychotherapist specializing in anxiety in adults and children.
Deb Dana, LCSW
Coordinator of the Traumatic Stress Research Consortium at the Kinsey Institute; Developer of the Rhythm of Regulation Clinical Training Series; author of Polyvagal Theory in Therapy.
Bonnie Goldstein, PhD
Founder and Director of the Lifespan Psychological Center; Co-author of Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating AD/HD in Children and Adolescents.
Laurel Parnell, PhD
Leading expert in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR); Author of Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma.
Charles Ridley, PhD
Licensed psychologist and professor of counseling psychology at Texas A&M University; author of Overcoming Unintentional Racism in Counseling and Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide to Intentional Intervention.
Course Director
Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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TalkBack Segments to distill key ideas (this is where we “land” the session) |
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Next Week in Your Practice sessions to give you concrete strategies to use with clients |
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Five downloadable bonus videos to help clients develop tolerance for emotional distress |
Get 5 Bonuses That Give You Even More Strategies to Help Clients Who Struggle with Emotional Distress
How to Use Psychoeducation to “Turbo-Charge” Your Work with Distress Tolerance
Rick Hanson, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD
Shelly Harrell, PhD Miguel Gallardo, PsyD
- One Powerful Emotional Reframe That Can Transform How Your Client Responds to Stress
- A Strategy to Help Clients Develop the Confidence to Endure Distress
Building Distress Tolerance After Trauma – How One Client Worked Through Multiple Traumatic Experiences and Racially Motivated Micoraggressions
Pat Ogden, PhD
- How to Work with a Client’s Dysregulated Parts So They Can Better Understand Their Response to Distress
- The Importance of Recognizing the Powerful Effect Race Can Have on the Dynamics of the Therapeutic Relationship (and One Way to Work with It)
- How to Communicate a Sense of Safety Across Racial Lines, Even When Your Client’s Trauma Was Racially Motivated
Strategies for Building Distress Tolerance in Children (and Ways to Resource Overprotective Parents)
Ron Siegel, PsyD Christine Padesky, PhD Lynn Lyons, LICSW
- Why “Snowplow Parenting” Is Especially Detrimental to a Child’s Ability to Tolerate Distress (and How to Address It)
- A 2-Step Approach for Resourcing Parents with Ways to Help Kids Build Distress Tolerance
How to Help Clients When Positive Emotion Feels Distressing
Rick Hanson, PhD Christine Padesky, PhD
- A 3-Step Approach for Helping Clients Open Themselves to Experiencing Positive Emotion
- One Way to Help Clients Dissolve the Connection Between Positive Emotion and Distress
Integrating Self-Compassion to Enhance Your Client’s Ability to Tolerate Distress
Christopher Willard, PsyD Joan Borysenko, PhD Kelly Wilson, PhD
- One Common Misconception Your Client Might Have About Practicing Self-Compassion (and How to Dispel It)
- Specific Ways to Introduce Self-Compassion to Build Distress Tolerance Skills
- What to Say to Clients Who Might Be Hesitant About the Practice of Self-Compassion
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