Terry Real MSW, LICSW

Founder of the Relational Life Institute; author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression and The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work

Biography

Week 39 Video #1

The Danger of Deflating a Client’s Grandiosity

Week 41 Video #1

Working with the “Shame Message”

Week 54 Video #3

How Your Worldview Affects the Way You Cope with the Unknown

Week 57 Video #3

5 Losing Strategies That Contribute to a Client’s Resistance (and How to Identify Them)

Week 83 Video #1

How to Join Through the Truth and Avoid Confrontation

Week 89 Video #2

Why Our Instincts As Practitioners Can Become Our Strongest Tool

Week 94 Video #1

How to Avoid the Conflict that Stalls Treatment

Week 100 Video #4

Why We Sometimes Overlook Depression in Men

Week 106 Video #3

A Two-Step Approach to Working with a Client’s Inner Critic

Week 116 Video #3

When to Listen to Fear . . . And When to Ignore It

Week 123 Video #3

Disrupting One Harmful Thought Pattern that Can Often Fuel Blame

Week 126 Video #4

A 3-Step Process for Helping Clients Make Sense of an Emotional Trigger

Week 143 Video #1

Moving Clients out of Perfectionism and into Self-Acceptance

Week 144 – How and When to Confront Avoidance

Week 145 – Working with Common Issues That Can Often Fuel Avoidance

Week 146 – Key Skills for Clients Who Struggle with Avoidance

Week 156 – The Role of Relationships in Forming (and Transforming) Narratives

Week 177 – How Relationships Facilitate Growth When Working with Self-Absorption

Week 205 – Resentment as “The Family Business”

Week 213 – Strategies for Helping Clients Who Please and Appease Discover a Sense of Self

Week 215 – Should I Stay, or Should I Go? Important Factors in Helping Clients Decide

Week 217 – Rigidity as an Adaption to Trauma

Week 226 – Trust-Building Exercises and Skills

Week 231 – Integrating Compassion, Mindfulness, and Parts into Your Work with Despair

Week 246 – Grandiosity and Narcissism – What are They? How Do They Differ?

Week 249 – Treatment Approaches for Working with Narcissism and Grandiosity – Part 1

Week 250 – Treatment Approaches for Working with Narcissism and Grandiosity – Part 2

Week 253 – Strategies for Helping Clients Open Up to the Idea of Addressing Their Shadow Side

Week 262- Helping Clients Understand How Race, Culture, and Privilege Can Impact Feelings of Unworthiness

Week 269 – Addressing a Client’s Experience of Not Fitting In with Their Family or Culture

Week 273 – The Impact of Conflict Avoidance on Your Client’s Relationships (and Ways to Approach it)

Week 283 — How to Help When an Overwhelming Event Strains Your Client’s Relationships

Week 304 – Gaslighting and Manipulation in Larger Society (And How That Can Impact Our Work with Clients)

Practical Strategies for Helping Clients Who Struggle with Regret (Week 307)

Practical Strategies for Helping Clients Who Struggle with Regret (Week 310)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Address and Unpack Painful Feelings of Jealousy and Envy (Week 313)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 320)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 321)

Expert Strategies to Help Clients Shift Out of Persistent Feelings of Defectiveness (Week 322)