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

Outline

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