Summary - Step by Step: Building a Strong Therapeutic Alliance Through Co-Regulation

This workshop will introduce clinical staff to best use of self to support for clients to reach their goals and achieve healing. When there is an impasse in the therapeutic process with clients, even highly skilled and informed professionals can feel burnout. This training will home in on the process of co-regulation and use of self in therapy to maximize connection and healing. Through understanding how therapists and clients impact one another, providers can connect more deeply, work through challenges, and be more proactive against burnout. Practitioners will obtain skills in mindset, techniques for co-regulation, connection, and self-care.

Dr. Victoria Grinman is a psychotherapist, educator, and speaker based in New York with nearly two decades of experience helping people "grow through what they go through." As the founder of Growing Kind Minds, she supports individuals in healing developmental and relational trauma and in reconnecting with the power of relationship as a pathway to growth. Her research centers on posttraumatic growth, and, through her mentorship of therapists and leaders, she champions sustainable, values-driven practices that honor both purpose and wellbeing.

Learning Objective #1:

After this training, participants will be able to define coregulation between therapist and client and provide examples.

Learning Objective #2:

After this training, participants will be able to understand the role of attachment styles in coregulation.

Learning Objective #3:

After this training, participants will be able to integrate specific co-regulation techniques to promote more effective interactions and therapeutic outcomes.

Learning Objective #4:

After this training, participants will be able to demonstrate how involving parents and caregivers in child therapy will improve child’s treatment goals by engaging parents and caregivers in being models of the kinds of outcomes they want to see (regulating their own nervous systems, teaching them how to speak to their children so they will listen, etc.).

Learning Objective #5:

Integrate coregulation techniques such as yoga-based exercises/breathing and emotion regulation exercises, to promote more effective parent/caregiver-child interactions.

Learning Objective #6:

Demonstrate competency in utilizing role play techniques to self-regulate prior to and in sessions with parents.