Strengthening the Therapeutic Self:
Ego state therapy for Clinician Resilience, Modern Challenges, & Polarized Times
Recording available for FREE below.
I've grown increasingly concerned over the division of our country, and especially concerned regarding the impact of our times on our profession. Given therapists are primarily my clients now as I teach and consult rather than provide clinical services, I wanted to offer clinicians a training that could assist not only their clients but them. Thus I'm offering this practical, FREE training for clinicians who want to stay grounded, effective, and internally resourced while working in an era of burnout, complexity, and division. And yes, it's totally FREE, all you need to do is enter your email below to access the recording.
It is not required that you have an understanding what EST theory is to benefit from this training. I first created this for my EST Foundation students but decided also to offer it as a 'give back' to all the therapists who consult with me and/or who have attended my trainings because the field needs you to care for yourself and then decided to expand the offering to other interested clinicians.
Supporting clinicians in staying grounded, ethical, and effective when values collide.
Today’s clinicians are working in environments shaped by political polarization, cultural conflict, and increasing emotional intensity. Many are navigating difficult moments with clients, colleagues, and supervisors whose beliefs or values may differ sharply from their own.
In these moments, clinicians are asked to remain present, ethical, compassionate, and steady—even when strong internal reactions are activated.
This course introduces an ego state therapy framework for clinician resilience, integrated with key social psychology concepts, helping professionals understand both the internal and relational dynamics that emerge in polarized environments.
Participants will gain practical tools for navigating value differences without losing their professional grounding or personal integrity.
Clinicians today often face challenges such as:
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Working with clients whose political, cultural, or moral values strongly differ from their own
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Feeling internal tension between professional responsibilities and personal beliefs
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Navigating workplace environments where colleagues or supervisors hold different viewpoints
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Managing strong emotional reactions triggered by social or political issues in the therapy room
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Maintaining ethical care while staying authentic and regulated
These situations can activate powerful internal responses such as frustration, withdrawal, self-doubt, over-accommodation, or moral distress.
Why this Training?
This course explores how ego state therapy can help clinicians navigate overwhelm, reactivity, compassion fatigue, and internal conflict in both their professional and personal lives. Participants will learn practical ways to recognize protective parts, reduce polarization within the self, and cultivate greater steadiness, clarity, and capacity in challenging clinical and cultural contexts.
Designed for helping professionals, this training blends theory, reflection, and applicable tools you can bring directly into your work.
Integrating Social Psychology & Ego State Therapy
This training integrates insights from social psychology with ego state therapy theory to deepen understanding of how conflict develops—both internally and between people.
Social psychology helps explain dynamics such as:
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Group identity and in-group / out-group thinking
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Moral conviction and belief rigidity
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Cognitive bias and attribution errors
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Escalation of conflict in polarized environments
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Emotional contagion and social threat responses
Ego State Therapy complements this perspective by helping clinicians understand how these external dynamics can activate internal parts of the self.
Together, these frameworks help clinicians:
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Understand why highly polarized interactions escalate so quickly
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Recognize how external conflict can create internal polarization within our clients and ourselves
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Work with the internal states that emerge during moments of tension
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Develop strategies for staying regulated and therapeutically present
This integration provides practical tools for working with the most conflicted systems both within individuals and between people.
What You’ll Learn:
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The Principles of EST theory that effectively assist our most conflicted clients
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Ways to utilize EST principles to understand and relate to those w/differing values/opinions/behavior
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Understand trance logic and how it might be adding to clinician and client stress and reactivity
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Apply social psychology insights to better understand polarized interactions
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Identify internal states that become activated when working with clients who hold different values
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Recognize protective parts in your clients and yourself that may contribute to emotional struggles
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Develop greater internal cooperation within self and with others, including clients
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Maintain therapeutic presence when navigating political or cultural differences
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Manage internal responses when workplace dynamics involve conflicting viewpoints
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Apply EST strategies when working with highly conflicted systems (whether internal/external)
NEW TRAINING:
Holding Space During Challenging Times: Applications from an Ego State Therapy Perspective
After the response to the first Strengthening the Therapeutic Self Ego State Therapy webinar, it was clear many of you want to go deeper into how this actually looks in practice. I’m offering a longer, more in-depth training where we’ll focus more on application and ego state strategies, with demonstrations as well as experiential exercises that can benefit you or your clients.
On August 11, 12:00-3:30 CDT there will be a 3.5-hour online session designed for clinicians who are ready to move beyond what you learned from the first presentation and/or recording. It will be recorded minus any break-out times.
You will have to register to get and view the recording of the first presentation because it is a prerequisite before joining this new training. If you haven't done so, you can access the FREE recording above. After doing so, sign up below for the newer and more in-depth training focused more on application and ego state strategies.
Applications from an Ego State Therapy Perspective
Starts Aug 11
95 US dollars