How to Work with a Clients Perfectionism – Ruth Buczynski

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How to Work with the Fear, Pain, and Shame That’s Imprisoning Your Client in Perfectionism

Perfectionism can lock a client in a constant state of anxiety, grinding down their nervous system.

It can lead to depression, chronic stress, and become a painful coping strategy for shame.

So how do we help clients achieve their goals without the harsh self-critical drive that’s impacting their health and damaging their relationships?

We gathered the latest strategies from the top 26 experts in the world for this brand new course . . .

How to Work with a Client’s Perfectionism

The Neurobiology of Perfectionism

Dan Siegel, MD ,Kelly McGonigal, PhD

• A mapping framework to help clients identify perfectionism patterns in the brain
• What goes on in a perfectionist’s brain and how it can create a self-made prison
• Why a perfectionist’s brain is highly optimized for detecting error

Perfectionism’s Cost: Helping Clients See the Hidden Damage Under Perfection’s Rewards

Deany Laliotis, LICSW ,  Melanie Greenberg, PhD , Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT , Zindel Segal, PhD Judson Brewer, MD, PhD , Kelly McGonigal, PhD

• The most powerful driver of perfectionism (and why clients so desperately cling to it)
• Why your client will often reject the idea that perfectionism is hurting them
• Two toxic factors that can set a perfectionist up for depression
• Why perfectionism so often presents with disrupted sleep

Why Perfectionism Turns to Addiction and How to Help Clients Break Free

Judson Brewer, MD, PhD , Ron Siegel, PsyD , Michael Yapko, PhD , Joan Borysenko, PhD

• The addiction pattern that keeps many clients locked in a drive for perfection
• The perfectionist paradox: one way perfectionism actually promotes failure
• A core missing skill that can keep a client addicted to perfection

How to Work With Shame and Perfectionism

Deany Laliotis, LICSWRon Siegel, PsyD ,  Pat Ogden, PhD, Richard Schwartz, PhD , Melanie Greenberg, PhD,  Rick Hanson, PhD

• How perfectionism helps fuel a person’s feeling of “never good enough”
• One powerful strategy to foster the inner compassion that can reduce shame
• A body-centered approach for working with the painful feelings beneath perfectionism
• How to defuse an inner critic that’s driving your client’s perfectionism

How to Work with Clients Paralyzed by Their Perfectionism

Shelly Harrell, PhD , Steven Hayes, PhD , Ron Siegel, PsyD

• Why your client’s procrastination might be a hidden form of perfectionism
• How perfectionism can shift clients from motivation to paralysis
• The critical cost to a client who suffers perfection-driven paralysis

How to Target Perfectionism That’s Stuck in the Nervous System

Stephen Porges, PhD, Bonnie Goldstein, LCSW, EDM, PhD
Deb Dana, LCSW

• How to help clients listen to the story their nervous system is telling them
• The crucial link between perfectionism and early life attachment
• The core vulnerability that can lead to an obsession with perfection
• How the nervous system can trap a person in a perfection-isolation loop

How to Work with Perfectionism That’s Linked to Trauma

Resmaa Menakem MSW, LICSW, SEP Onno van der Hart, PhD
Ron Siegel, PsyD

• How trauma strengthens the one core element that gives perfectionism its power
• Why trauma-driven perfectionism can often be mis-assessed as a personality trait

Key Strategies for Working with Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and Perfectionism

Pat Ogden, PhD, Bill O’Hanlon, LMFT

• How to help clients manage the OCD that’s keeping their perfectionism alive
• A bottom-up approach to treating hyperarousal triggered by perfectionism
• One technique to help a perfectionist safely experience mistakes

How to Help Clients Shift a Rigid Perfectionist Mindset

Zindel Segal, PhD , Lynn Lyons, LICSW , Michael Yapko, PhD

• One crucial reason a client will hold onto perfectionism (even when it’s costing them)
• How to help clients soften their rigid perfectionistic boundaries
• How an overachiever will often assess imperfection (and why this keeps them stuck)

Here’s What You’ll Get:

Everything is yours to keep forever in your professional library

• Downloadable videos so you can watch at your convenience, on any device
• Audio recordings you can download and listen to at home, in the car, at the gym or wherever you like
• Professionally-formatted transcripts of the sessions, to make review and action simple
• Two downloadable bonus videos to help you work with a Client’s Perfectionism

Why the Transcript Is Essential:

• The transcript makes it easy to go back and double check concepts, citations and names that are mentioned
• We put in a table of contents to make it easy for you to find the exact part of the webinar you need
• Having the concepts already written allows you to take notes on how you’re going to use the ideas rather than transcribing the ideas
• Some people simply learn better by reading than by listening or watching
• You will be able to print out and share techniques presented in the session with your patients