2 Day Workshop-Creative Counseling Toolbox-65 Innovative, Multi-Sensory Strategies to Make Therapy More Impactful, Memorable and Effective! – Ed Jacobs and Christine Schimmel

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Tired of using the same interventions, session after session? Do you find yourself repeating the same phrases and concepts over and over, wondering how much of it is getting through to your clients? Are your sessions unfocused or lacking theoretical basis? Looking to revitalize your practice?

Watch Drs. Ed Jacobs and Christine Schimmel as they introduce you to a whole new framework for treating clients – an active, creative, multisensory, theory-driven approach that grabs clients’ attention and gets them moving in every sense of the word.

Take your interventions to the next level using affordable, everyday items such as chairs, rubber bands, white boards and other props, to have a lasting impact on clients’ insight, motivation and desire to change.

Built on concepts from evidence-based theoretical approaches such as REBT/CBT, Reality Therapy and Motivational Interviewing, these interventions are designed for all age groups and any clinical issue, including mood and anxiety disorders, anger, low self-esteem and relationships difficulties.

Watch this recording packed with non-stop action, demonstrations and ideas that will have you furiously taking notes as your clinical toolbox overflows with creative, effective interventions you can use immediately!

What’s more, you’ll leave inspired to create even more!

1. Incorporate creative techniques into established therapy approaches in order to improve clinical outcomes with clients.
2. Utilize specific creative techniques to help angry clients recognize triggers, reduce anger outbursts and improve accountability.
3. Demonstrate the use of props to enhance interventions aimed at improving self-esteem in clients.
4. Integrate principles of Reality Therapy with creative strategies to increase the therapeutic impact of interventions.
5. Implement a multi-sensory, concrete approach to therapy that increases therapeutic value and makes interventions more memorable for the client.
6. Employ creative variations of the “empty chair” technique as derived from Gestalt Therapy to enhance the client’s understanding of one’s inner struggles as well as relational difficulties.
7. Discover how the use of writing and drawing in session can be utilized to transform therapeutic concepts from abstract to concrete.
8. Apply principles from Transactional Analysis therapy, including the identification of ego states, to help illustrate resolution of interpersonal conflicts with clients.
9. Teach clients creative techniques from Rational Emotive Behavioral Therapy that address irrational thoughts and negative self-talk.
10. Utilize movement-based interventions in session to engage clients and heighten self-awareness.
11. Provide clients with concrete, tangible strategies that help to decrease symptoms of anxiety, including rumination and management of anxious thoughts and feelings.
12. Demonstrate the use of metaphor, analogies and fantasies in session to provide psychoeducation, improve insight and engagement in therapy.

What Makes Therapy Effective?

• Four M’s: Multi-sensory, motivational, marketing, maps
• 8 mistakes most therapists make
• Engagement: the core of effective therapy
• The brain likes novelty – what advertisers know
• Use a depth chart to gage the efficacy of your therapy
• RCFF: Rapport, Contract, Focus, Funnel

Creativity Meets Evidence-Based Practice

• REBT/CBT
• Reality Therapy
• Adlerian Therapy
• Gestalt Therapy
• Transactional Analysis
• Motivational Interviewing/Stages of Change
• Limitations and Risks

Rapport Building 
Interventions That Go Beyond Active Listening

• Rubber band technique
• Use of chairs
• Language techniques
• How to roll with resistance

Anxiety Disorders 
Disrupt Rumination, Improve Insight and Manage Anxious Thoughts and Feelings

• Creative REBT/CBT Interventions
• Pinwheel
• The power of the whiteboard
• The “Where does the anxiety come from?” technique

Depression and Other Mood Disorders 
Increase Motivation, Improve Mood and Get Clients “Unstuck”

• Rearview mirror
• Eeyore/Tigger technique
• Air pump
• Chairs as hope and movement
• Stages of change
• Board of directors
• Kids in a tree

Anger and Resistance 
Recognize Triggers, Diffuse Anger and Improve Accountability

• Soda bottle
• Fuses
• Shield/Filter
• Rubber band
• Small chair
• Three R’s: Retreat, Rethink, React

Low Self-Esteem 
Improve Self-Talk, Boundary Setting and Decision Making

• Toy hammer
• Dollar bill
• Styrofoam cup
• Nesting dolls – codependency
• Small chair
• Chairs
• Egogram
• ANTS – Automatic Negative Thoughts

Relationships and Conflict Resolution 
Build Communication Skills, Emotional Awareness and Empathy

• Rubber band
• Chairs
• Nurturing parent vs. critical parent chair
• Drama triangle
• Infinity diagram of a fight

Grief and Loss 
Expand Emotional Expression and Promote Healing

• Dual Process Model
• Worden’s Four Tasks of Mourning
• Empty Chair technique
• The Shattering Dominoes