Practical Strategies to Work with Clients Who Struggle with a Harsh, Unrelenting Inner Critic
An out-of-control inner critic can keep clients frozen in fear and anxiety.
Over time, it can burn out their ambition, locking them into painful patterns of shame. Or harshly punish them when they fail to meet unattainable standards.
And when an inner critic turns toxic, it can leave a client powerless to make decisions.
We thought this issue was so pervasive, touching over half of all clients, that we turned to the top experts in this space – 16 of them to be exact – and asked them how they work with a client’s inner critic. We took their sharpest insights and strategies to make. . .
How to Work with Clients Who Struggle with an Inner Critic
What’s Going On in the Brain When the Inner Critic is Active
Dan Siegel, MD Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
- The neurobiological path that can leave your client vulnerable to inner hostility
- The 4-step process for disrupting the brain patterns that flood a client with self-judgment
- How to negotiate with a critic when it’s driving your client into obsessive-compulsive activity
- A brain-savvy approach to help transform an inner critic into an ally for change
How to Neutralize the Power of an Inner Critic
Laurel Parnell, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD
- Why a client’s inner critic first appears (and how this can impact your attempt to remove it)
- How to work with toxic self-judgment that can alter a client’s sense of self
- The part of your approach that can affect the way a client relates to their most judgmental self
Helping Clients Break Free of the Inner Perfectionist
Pat Ogden, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD Rick Hanson, PhD
- How a fear of failure can get internalized and bind a client to deep anxiety and despair
- How to help reduce the performance pressure that prevents hyper-achieving clients from experiencing joy
- One vital concession that can help a client finally cast off a domineering inner critic
Quieting the Toxic Inner Voice That Can Drive Shame
Shelly Harrell, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD
- How to engage a client’s critical self to reveal the core issue it fears most
- A crucial strategy for reducing the shame that gets triggered by the inner critic
- Why high-achieving people have a particularly hard time muting their self-critic
How to Work with the Inner Critic and Depression
Richard Schwartz, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
- The key question that can help disrupt the inner critic’s protective role
- Why certain inner critics will move clients into a shutdown state
- How to respond to an inner critic when it threatens the client with suicide
Expanding a Client’s Capacity to Live with Mistakes
Lynn Lyons, LICSW Terry Real, MSW, LICSW Rick Hanson, PhD
- How to reframe the way clients view mistakes to prevent the rise of an inner critic
- How to calm an inner critic that’s driving a client’s social anxiety
- One exercise to dismantle the “all or nothing” thinking that invites self-criticism
- How to work with a client’s inner critic when it prevents them from making a major life change
How to Help a Client Build Core Beliefs of Self-Worth
Christine Padesky, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD Joan Borysenko, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD
- An early intervention to quickly assess an inner critic’s strength
- The crucial role of the therapeutic relationship in helping clients develop empathy toward their inner critic
- A powerful strategy to help clients replace rigid negative thoughts with positive core beliefs
How to Break the Patterns That Sustain an Inner Critic
Ron Siegel, PsyD Rick Hanson, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD
- How certain self-critical thoughts can become triggers for feelings of unlovability and hopelessness
- One shift in context to help clients stay grounded in the aftermath of bad decisions
- A two-part approach to help clients soften their inner critic’s defenses
One Missing Skill That Can Boost a Client’s Ability to Overcome Their Inner Critic
Michael Yapko, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
- One aspect of depression that empowers a client’s inner critic
- Why some clients get stuck inside the space between achievement and perfection
- The main skill deficit that fosters a client’s anti-self (and how to reverse it)
- One intervention that can immediately render an inner critic powerless
How to Foster a Client’s Inner Nurturer
Rick Hanson, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD
- A common approach to an inner critic that could be under-resourcing the client’s healing
- Why standard treatment methods often fall flat when a client is fused to their inner critic
- The specific attachment history that can complicate a client’s attempt to silence their critic
- How safety in a relationship could actually be binding a client tighter to their inner critic
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to help you work more effectively with a client’s inner critic
Up to 4 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
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For This Short Course on How to Work with Clients Who Struggle with an Inner Critic, We Brought Together Some of the Top Experts in the Field
Dan Siegel, MD
Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute; Co-Director of UCLA’s Mindful Awareness Research Center; author of Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation and The Mindful Therapist: A Clinician’s Guide to Mindsight and Neural Integration.
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.
Richard Schwartz, PhD
Founder of Internal Family Systems (IFS) and The Center for Self Leadership; Author of Introduction to Internal Family Systems.
Shelly Harrell, PhD
Licensed psychologist specializing in multicultural and community psychology; Professor of Psychology in the Graduate School of Education at Pepperdine University.
Sue Johnson, EdD
Creator of Emotionally Focused Therapy (EFT); Founder and Director of the International Centre for Excellence in Emotionally Focused Therapy.
Laurel Parnell, PhD
Leading expert in Eye-Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR); Author of Attachment-Focused EMDR: Healing Relational Trauma.
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.
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.
Kelly McGonigal, PhD
Health psychologist and lecturer at Stanford University; Author of The Upside of Stress: Why Stress Is Good for You and How to Get Good At It and The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It.
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.
Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT
Founder of the PACT Training Institute and developer of a Psychobiological Approach to Couple Therapy (PACT).
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.
Terry Real, MSW, LICSW
Founder of the Relational Life Institute; Author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression and The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work.
Bonnie Goldstein, PhD
Founder and Director of the Lifespan Psychological Center; Co-author of Understanding, Diagnosing, and Treating AD/HD in Children and Adolescents.
Course Director
Ruth Buczynski, PhD
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Get 3 Bonuses That Give You Even More Strategies to Help Clients Move Forward
Bonus 1 | Case Study: How One Expert Helped Her Client Overcome a Particularly Pervasive Inner Critic
Bonnie Goldstein, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD
- One shift that can impact the way a client approaches negative thoughts
- How to safely ease a client out of shame to restore a sense of empowerment
Bonus 2 | How to Work with Internalized Criticism that Stems from Social Oppression
Shelly Harrell, PhD
- A two-part strategy to help clients separate their true identity from the hostile messaging of society
- The affirming exercise of hope that can unravel internalized stereotypes
- How to approach issues of discrimination in a way that can help your client experience growth
Bonus 3 | Repairing the Inner Critic in Relationships
Sue Johnson, EdD Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT Ron Siegel, PsyD Kelly McGonigal, PhD
- How to help a client reduce their perceptions of criticism when they feel exposed and vulnerable in a relationship
- How partners can leverage each other to heal an inner critic
Register Here for Only $197
and get 11 videos, audios, and transcripts, including 3 bonuses
to help you work more effectively with a client’s inner critic
Up to 4 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures
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and get 11 videos, audios, and transcripts, including 3 bonuses
to help you work more effectively with a client’s inner critic
Up to 4 CE/CME Credits or Clock Hours are available for purchase at checkout.
Click HERE to get information about CE/CME credits and clock hours as well as speaker disclosures