Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship Connecting with Challenging and Resistant Clients

With a refreshing approach to resistance in therapy, Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship offers practical tools and tips to help therapists and clinicians across all modalities of counseling work with their most challenging clients. By illustrating the power of empathic responsiveness coupled with attachment science and interventions, the author goes straight to the heart of what’s vital for building strong therapeutic alliances with even the most difficult clients. Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship presents effective tools that clinicians and therapists can use to move away from pathological diagnostic labels toward engaging with people in their distress. This is a valuable resource to anyone in a helping profession, teaching them to effectively use their most valuable instrument—themselves—by harnessing the power of relentless empathy to shape relationships with not only clients but also the outside world.

Introduction; Chapter 1 Attachment science: The heart of life; Chapter 2 Relentless empathy; Chapter 3 Relentless empathy for resistant clients; Chapter 4 Relentless empathy for personality disordered clients; Chapter 5 Relentless empathy for addicted clients; Chapter 6 Relentless empathy for angry or hostile clients; Chapter 7 Relentless empathy for difficult people in your life: Personal and professional applications for everyday life

Anabelle Bugatti, PhD, is a licensed marriage and family therapist with a private practice in Las Vegas, NV. She is a certified Emotionally Focused Therapist and Supervisor, the co-founder and president of the Southern Nevada Community for Emotionally Focused Therapy and the host of the videocastand podcast, We Heart Therapy. She is an author as well as a public speaker. She can be contacted through her website, www.DrAnabelleBugatti.com