How can we empower the therapeutic relationship and alliance in a way that will make therapy more individualized and result in long-lasting change? In this webinar replay, originator and co-developer of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), Steven Hayes, joins Psychotherapy.net founder, Victor Yalom, to demonstrate how to harness the spirit of humanistic practice and power of the therapeutic alliance so you can feel confident knowing that you are contributing to meaningful clinical change.

Clinicians know that beneath their clients’ self-sabotaging behavior and emotional avoidance, they ‘yearn,’ as Hayes puts it, for fulfillment, connection, and self-acceptance. To better help your own clients satisfy these basic human needs, Hayes illustrates how to tune in to and capitalize upon the healing processes that actually happen in therapy. You will learn how to be more open, aware, and actively engaged in a meaningful way, so that your clients can extend those same processes to their relationships and to taking care of themselves.

By honing your skills at making the reads and following the client’s leads—in ACT terms—you can more effectively, and with a wider range of clients, strengthen your clinical skills. As demonstrated in this webinar, recognizing that your client’s problem-solving efforts are the problem and not the solution, you will more effectively move clients along on their healing paths.

You will watch Hayes in a previously recorded live session with Esther, who, after a long history of body shaming and concerns around aging wants to become comfortable in her own skin. By carefully tracking her true desires and unlocking her inner resources, Hayes quickly helps her to replace dysfunctional patterns with self-enhancing thoughts and genuinely experienced emotions. After watching Hayes and Yalom analyze each segment of the session, and through incisive questions from a global audience of clinicians, you will come away better prepared to meet the diverse needs of your own clients.