Applying Process Based Therapy to Your Own Work

The therapist is not standing outside the clinical system. Our attention, language, pacing, avoidance, and responses all help shape what can happen next.

Todd uses a process based lens to examine therapist behavior as part of the functional context of treatment. Rather than judging moments of overexplaining, filling silence, or hesitating to intervene as mistakes, clinicians can study when these patterns occur, what evokes them, what immediate consequence they produce, and where they take the work over time.

You’ll explore:

• Time, Trigger, and Trajectory as a structure for therapist self observation
• How internal cues and learning history influence clinical decisions
• The difference between reflective self supervision and performance based self criticism
• Questions for reviewing stuck moments and identifying more flexible alternatives

Clinician takeaway:

You will gain a practical method for functional self supervision that helps you notice your contribution to the clinical system, learn from difficult moments, and respond with greater intention in future sessions.

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