YOU Are the Cake Findings From 70 Years of Psychotherapy Research
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YOU Are the Cake Findings From 70 Years of Psychotherapy Research

Sat, Mar 25th, 2023
11:00am – 2:15pm US Eastern Time
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About the Event

Are you a helping professional who sometimes feels like you're not sure you have what it takes to facilitate change? Early on in my days as a therapist, a mentor said to me, "YOU are the cake, Hillary." What does cake have to do with being a therapist?! She explained further, "Who YOU are, how YOU show up with clients, THAT is the bulk of our work as therapists. The skills and tools we bring to sessions are the icing, but remember, YOU are the cake." In this session, we will play around with the synthesis of the roots of humanistic psychology, Motivational Interviewing spirit, and who we are as therapists as tools to enhance the change process with clients. We are in this business to help people change! Come learn about the key ingredients to this process! I will also share recent findings from 70 years of psychotherapy research from the 2021 book by Bill Miller & Theresa Moyers. Enhance your flavor of cake and learn evidence-based methods of showing up in the room.

Live Event This is a live online event. It will be conducted via Zoom Webinar.

Live Event Instructor

Hillary Bolter

Hillary Bolter

Hilary Bolter has more than 10 years of clinical experience and is dually licensed by the NC Social Work Board as a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW), and the NC Substance Abuse Professional Standards Board as a Licensed Clinical Addiction Counselor (LCAS). Her private practice location is in Asheville, NC. She is a member of the Motivational Interviewing Network of Trainers (MINT).

Target Audience

This live interactive webinar is intended for mental health professionals, including Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, MFT's and Addiction Professionals.

Learning Objectives

After taking this activity, you should be able to:

  1. 1 Appraise internal and external expressions of three research based therapeutic factors.
  2. 2 Describe 8 evidence based relational therapeutic factors.
  3. 3 Compare and contrast three communication styles.

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Event Agenda

Agenda times are listed in US Eastern Time. That is 3 hours later than US Pacific Time. The event starts at 8:00am US Pacific Time.

11:00a-11:15 Exploring our attempts to help people change

11:15-:30 Key Ingredient exploration, Favorite Mentor Activity

11:30-11:45 “Spirit” of Motivational Interviewing, key factors, cultural humility and client values

11:45-12:00 Interview recording with my mentor about Relational ‘ingredients’

12:00-12:15 70 Years of psychotherapy research, an overview of 8 factors inward & outward expressions, plan to focus on 3 elements

12:15-:12:30 Exploration of Accurate Empathy, inward & outward expressions, 12 Roadblocks to Listening

12:30-1245p Break

12:45-1:00p Complex reflection exploration and practice activity

1:00-1:15p Exploration of Positive Regard, inward and outward expressions, Affirmations, personal writing activity

1:15p-1:30p Exploration of Acceptance, inward and outward expressions 

1:30-1:45 Self assessment writing activity and debrief, plans for enhancing these elements of ‘self in the room’

1:45-2:00p Three styles of communication

1:45-2:00 Research overview, overview of framework Motivational Interviewing offers as pathway to effective psychotherapy, Q & A.

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