Advanced Intervention Techniques

Advanced intervention techniques are to the therapist as steroids are to the athletes. When it comes to helping clients grow their underdeveloped resources and relationship skills, all other techniques pale in comparison with advanced intervention techniques. Advanced intervention techniques come in handy during the problem resolution stage of counseling wherein therapists focus on:

Reconstructing clients’ schemas

Coaching them new skills

Reclaiming clients’ disowned parts of themselves

Bringing closure to their unfinished business

Learning the eight groups of advanced intervention techniques—illustrated with insightful examples—beginning counselors/therapists will feel confident in bringing deep change to clients’ lives via:

Life skill training

Mindfulness training for schema change

Guided imagery and therapeutic suggestions

Experiential teaching

Paradox

Interviewing “the internalized other”—a narrative therapy technique

Part dialog: working with polarized parts

Empty chair technique: mutual empathy training