Working with the Fear of Rejection – NICABM

The Most Common Factors That Drive Your Client’s Fear of Rejection (and How to Work with Them)

Peter Levine, PhD Pat Ogden, PhD Shelly Harrell, PhD

• 3 Specific Issues That Fuel a Client’s Fear of Rejection
• What Fear of Rejection Can Feel Like in the Body (and How to Work with Those Sensations)
• How to Work with a Fear of Rejection That Traps a Client in Chronic Self-Sabotage

How to Work with the Avoidance Strategies That Can Sustain Your Client’s Fear of Rejection

Dan Hill, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD
Richard Schwartz, PhD Deany Laliotis, LICSW

• How a Client’s Early Traumatic Experiences Might Impact Our Approach to Their Fear of Rejection
• How Epigenetics Can Impact the Development of Avoidant Attachment
• One Key Question to Get at the Heart of Your Client’s Fear of Rejection

How to Work with Clients Who Equate Criticism with Rejection

Christine Padesky, PhD Joan Borysenko, PhD Ellyn Bader, PhD

• One Novel Approach to Help Clients Depersonalize Being Rejected
• Two Ways to Work with Clients Who Are Hypercritical or Rejecting of Themselves
• How to Help Clients Turn a Rejection Experience into an Affirmation of Their Core Values

Working with Rejection at the Level of the Nervous System

Deb Dana, LICSW Kelly McGonigal, PhD
Resmaa Menakem, MSW, LICSW, SEP Ron Siegel, PsyD
Laurel Parnell, PhD Stephen Porges, PhD

• Why Tracking Your Client’s Autonomic State Can Help You Gain Insight into Your Client’s Fear of Rejection
• How to Help Clients Reinterpret Cues of Danger
• A Compassion-Based Technique for Working with Clients Who Are Afraid of Being Rejected
• The Critical Role That Your Nervous System Plays in Treating a Fear of Rejection

Key Strategies for Shifting a Client Out of a Rejection-Based Narrative

Ron Siegel, PsyD Kelly Wilson, PhD Rick Hanson, PhD

• How to Use Mentalization to Help Clients Get “Unstuck” from a Rejection Mindset
• Key Practices Clients Can Use to Ground Themselves When They Feel Rebuffed or Rejected
• Appeasement – How Your Client Might Be Using It to Ward Off Rejection

How to Use Movement to Shift Clients Out of a Fear of Rejection

Bonnie Goldstein, PhD Kelly McGonigal, PhD

• How to Work with a “False Self” Defense Against a Fear of Rejection
• A 3-Step Process for Working with the Avoidance and Shame That Often Fuels Rejection Fears
• A Sensorimotor Intervention to Help Clients Experiment with Healthy Boundary-Setting

When Fear of Rejection Makes it Hard for Your Client to Set Healthy Boundaries

Lynn Lyons, LICSW Terry Real, MSW, LICSW Michael Yapko, PhD

• How to Help When a Client’s Fear of Rejection Leads Them to Tolerate Behavior They Know They Shouldn’t
• Clear, Concrete Boundary-Setting Language for Clients Who Are Afraid of Being Rejected
• Working with Rejection and Boundaries in Couples Therapy

How to Structure the Therapeutic Relationship More Strategically to Heal a Client’s Fear of Rejection

Miguel Gallardo, PsyD Zindel Segal, PhD Ron Siegel, PsyD

• 2 Key Elements to Consider in Building a Therapeutic Alliance with Clients Who Fear Rejection
• How to Tell When a Client’s Fear of Rejection Is Endangering the Therapeutic Alliance
• How to Mitigate a Client’s Fear That They’ll Be Rejected in Therapy

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