Working Relationally with "Stuckness"

Service Description

When we engage people in a working alliance, we need tools and skills that support the development, maintenance and functioning of the therapeutic relationship. As the container for intervention and a vehicle for change, the therapeutic relationship requires awareness, tracking and acknowledgement as an enabling or blocking element in practice. Utilising elements of Cognitive Analytic Therapy, this module focuses on attuning and responding to the dynamic nature of relational patterns in day to day moments and throughout the therapeutic process. We can all experience moments of “stuckness” where avoidance, disengagement, rupture and repair occurs. This module brings these moments into focus, emphasising and practicing skills for compassionate curiosity, shared understanding, and collaborative discussion of transference and counter-transference in the working relationship for therapeutic impact and change.