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Turning Obstacles into Doorways

Frustrated by blocks in the therapeutic process? Sign up to get six ways to work with tough client issues so you can confidently help clients turn obstacles into doorways for lasting change.

Do your clients get stuck in difficult emotional states?

Get 6 tips to help them move forward.

Discover how you can help your clients transform how they relate to uncomfortable emotions in a way that supports and facilitates change. Get useful suggestions you can implement immediately.

Plus learn more about Focusing, an embodied process for healing that’s been linked in over 50 research studies with positive outcomes in therapy, including greater emotional regulation, more satisfying relationships, and increased self-acceptance.

In this series you’ll learn specific steps for:

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Supporting clients who have a hard time feeling in their bodies

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Helping low-affect clients experience what they’re feeling in the moment

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Working with clients who don’t want to “go there”

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Assisting if a client goes blank or gets sleepy when feelings are present

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Making it easier for clients to be okay with feeling “bad”

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Working with your clients’ self-criticism so they can feel better and move forward

What People Are Saying

Inner Relationship Focusing is THE most powerful, effective, and elegant human technology for individual and community well-being I’ve ever encountered. In the time I’ve been engaged in Focusing, both personally and in my work, the shifts and openings that have occurred are astounding. My life is opening up, my clients’ well-being is expanding, and all in the context of a global pandemic. Amazing!
CATHRYN CAMPBELL
Marriage & Family Therapist
Ann Weiser Cornell approaches Focusing with both moment-by-moment sensitivity and years of depth. This is one of the most profound therapeutic techniques of which I am aware, and may even be said to be the basis of all good therapy.
JEFFREY MISHLOVE
Author of The Roots of Consciousness and host of TV and radio show Thinking Allowed
Learning Focusing created a shift in my goals as a therapist. The surprise was, it also created a shift within me. From the viewpoint of a therapist, I felt I had to be responsible for ‘fixing’ others. Now, being present within, I’m more often able to help others do the same — to connect to their emotional wisdom, which allows them a lifetime of self-compassion and greater calm.
KIM PHILLIPS
Marriage & Family Therapist

About Your Teacher

Ann Weiser Cornell, PhD, is the bestselling author of Focusing in Clinical Practice: The Essence of Change, The Power of Focusing and The Radical Acceptance of Everything. She is internationally recognized as one of the leading innovators and theoreticians of Focusing, for her development with Barbara McGavin of Inner Relationship Focusing, and for her attention to facilitative language.

She has worked as a clinician and now teaches Focusing worldwide. She is a Past President of the Association for Humanistic Psychology.

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Our Vision

The vision of Focusing Resources is to meaningfully contribute to personal, community, and global emotional health, with the understanding that positive emotional health impacts how fairly we treat each other, how well and quickly we recover from stress and trauma, and how wisely and collaboratively we meet the serious challenges we are all facing.