EXCLUSIVE AUTHOR EVENT - March 27th
For our adult clients with difficult parents, there’s a constant struggle between maintaining connection and protecting themselves from getting hurt.
Especially when there have been years of parental abuse, neglect, addiction, or mental illness, it's easy for therapy to get stuck on processing the past...
...and never get to the specific steps our clients can take NOW to feel better.
The key to healthier relationships is teaching our clients how to establish boundaries.
And now, in this FREE virtual training, you can learn top tools for better boundaries directly from relationship expert and acclaimed clinician and author, Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW.
She’ll give you practical, easy-to-implement interventions that you can use right away to help your clients set better boundaries and transform their interactions with difficulty family members.
PLUS, don’t miss in-depth conversations between Nedra and key experts in the field, including Lindsay Gibson, PsyD, Joshua Coleman, PhD and Karl Pillemer, PhD!
REGISTER NOW and claim your spot for this exclusive FREE event! This is a rare opportunity to hear from four leading experts talking about one of the most crucial clinical topics!
Register for FREE Today!
Can't attend live? Register anyway for 14-day free access to the training!
*CE credit plus a free copy of Nedra’s new book, Drama Free are available for an additional cost. Register for more information.
In this powerful workshop, Nedra Glover Tawwab, LCSW, will guide you to help your clients drop the guilt, anger, fear of rejection, and conflict avoidance that keep them from establishing boundaries...
...and give you tools for creating a new legacy of healthy family relationships.
PLUS, she’ll cover special strategies for working with emotional neglect, addiction, mental illness, and more.
It’s all based on her brand-new book Drama Free: A Guide to Managing Unhealthy Family Relationships – the much-anticipated follow-up to her New York Times Best Seller, Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself.
AND, Nedra will be joined by special guests with whom she’ll have in-depth conversations about emotional immaturity and the causes and consequences of parental alienation and estrangement:
- Lindsay Gibson, PsyD, master clinician and Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents
- Joshua Coleman, PhD, esteemed expert and author of Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict
- Karl Pillemer, PhD, leading family sociologist and author of Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
- What are boundaries (hint: they aren't cutting someone off)
- The six types of boundaries
- Benefits of healthy boundaries and impact of poor boundaries
- Common boundary issues in parent-child relationships and the family dynamics that lead to them
- How to tell if your client is struggling with boundaries
- The signs of poor boundaries that therapists frequently miss
- Determining your client’s readiness for change and how to increase motivation when it isn’t there
- Eight steps to setting healthy boundaries
- Communication strategies your clients need for setting (and enforcing!) a healthy boundary
- How to help your clients best respond when new boundaries are tested
- Lindsay Gibson, PsyD, master clinician and Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents
- Joshua Coleman, PhD, esteemed expert and author of Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict
- Karl Pillemer, PhD, leading family sociologist and author of Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them
- Therapists need boundaries too: How to set professional boundaries
- Limitations of the research and potential risks
Nedra Glover Tawwab, MSW, LCSW, is a New York Times best-selling author, licensed therapist, and sought-after relationship expert. She has practiced relationship therapy for 15 years and is the founder and owner of the group therapy practice, Kaleidoscope Counseling. Every day she helps people create healthy relationships by teaching them how to implement boundaries. Her philosophy is that a lack of boundaries and assertiveness underlie most relationship issues, and her eclectic approach incorporates elements of mindfulness, cognitive-behavioral, narrative, acceptance and commitment, emotionally focused, and positive therapy approaches. Nedra has certifications in working with families and couples and in perinatal mood and anxiety disorders, plus advanced training for counseling adults who’ve experienced childhood emotional neglect. Nedra has appeared as an expert on Red Table Talk, The Breakfast Club, Good Morning America, and CBS Morning Show. Her work has been highlighted in The New York Times, The Guardian, and Vice, and she has appeared on numerous podcasts including Good Life Project, Sofia with an F, and Therapy for Black Girls. She runs a popular Instagram account where she shares practices, tools, and reflections for mental health and relationships.
Click here for information about Nedra Glover Tawwab.
Lindsay Gibson, PsyD, is the Amazon #1 Best Selling Author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting or Self-Involved Parents, which has sold over 100,000 copies, been translated into 14 languages, and has helped thousands of people reverse their toxic psychological legacy and reclaim their lives. Dr. Gibson’s unique contribution to the field was to recognize that the anxiety, obsessions, and depression of her clients were often rooted in distorted beliefs and emotional coercions induced by emotionally immature parents. She continues to work as a clinical psychologist in private practice and has a follow-up book, Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy was released in 2019. (New Harbinger).
Click here for information about Lindsay C. Gibson.
Joshua Coleman, PhD, is a psychologist in private practice and a Senior Fellow with the Council on Contemporary Families, a non-partisan organization of leading sociologists, historians, psychologists, and demographers dedicated to providing the press and public with the latest research and best-practice findings about American families. He is the author of several books, including Rules of Estrangement: Why Adult Children Cut Ties and How to Heal the Conflict, and When Parents Hurt: Compassionate Strategies When You and Your Grown Child Don't Get Along. Dr. Coleman has written for numerous newspapers and magazines, including Atlantic Magazine, Psychology Today, The New York Times, and CNN.com. He has television and radio appearances including on NBC's Today Show, ABC's Good Morning America, Sesame Street, and NPR.
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Karl Pillemer, PhD, is a leading family sociologist and researcher on aging, professor of human development at Cornell University and professor of gerontology in medicine at the Weill Cornell Medical College. Throughout his career, Dr. Pillemer’s research has focused on how family relationships develop and change throughout people’s lives. His research takes place in the real world of families and professionals who work with them. He is the author of many peer-reviewed journal articles and books, including Fault Lines: Fractured Families and How to Mend Them.
Click here for information about Karl Pillemer.