NICABM – How To Ease Damaging Patterns Of Jealousy And Envy

Description Of How To Ease Damaging Patterns Of Jealousy And Envy

Jealousy Can Ruin Your Client’s Relationships

How to help your clients overcome the hurts and insecurities that fuel jealousy jealous womanJealousy can be all-consuming.

It can lock onto your client’s attention with an unyielding grasp, inflaming their insecurities and compelling them to think, say, or do things they wouldn’t have imagined they were capable of.

Not only that, but when clients obsessively ruminate over what they’ve lost or don’t have, they can sink deep into uncontrollable cycles of anger, hurt, and shame.

It can completely ruin your client’s closest relationships. And the pain it causes can feel unbearable at times.

So how can we skillfully target the fears and insecurities that so often underlie jealousy and help clients shift patterns of jealous thoughts and behaviors?

What You’ll Learn In How To Ease Damaging Patterns Of Jealousy And Envy

We called on 25 of the world’s top experts to get their best strategies and techniques for working with jealousy and envy. Presenting . . .

How to Ease Damaging Patterns of Jealousy and Envy

How to Work with Jealousy and Envy in Clients Who’ve Experienced Trauma
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD   Janina Fisher, PhD  
Thema Bryant, PhD   Ron Siegel, PsyD   Terry Real, MSW, LICSW

• One Common Pattern of Envy That Trauma Survivors Often Experience (and How to Address It)
• Specific Questions to Help Clients Access the Grief Underneath Their Jealousy or Envy
• How to Work with Cognitive Distortions Created by Jealousy and Envy
• An Experiential Approach to Help Clients Foster Gratitude
• How to Ease Harmful Self-Narratives That are Layered with Jealousy, Envy, and Trauma

When Attachment Wounds Lead to Feelings of Jealousy or Envy
Richard Schwartz, PhD   Frank Anderson, MD  
Eboni Webb, PsyD   Laurel Parnell, PhD   George Faller, MS, LMFT

• One Critical Dynamic to Explore BEFORE Addressing Attachment-Based Jealousy or Envy
• A 3-Step Process to Help Clients Heal Attachment Wounds
• How to Help Clients Experience a Corrective Attachment Experience
• Strategies to Help Clients Become Their Own Primary Attachment Figure
• Two EMDR Techniques to Help Clients Confront Feelings of Jealousy, Envy, and Inadequacy
• The Latest Research on Attachment Styles and Feelings of Jealousy in the Digital Age

How to Approach Jealousy or Envy That Arises in the Therapeutic Relationship
Deany Laliotis, LICSW   Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD  
Chris Willard, PsyD   Richard Schwartz, PhD   Ron Siegel, PsyD

• How to Skillfully Respond to a Client’s Idealized Envy of the Therapist
• Strategies to Address Clients Who Cross Therapeutic Boundaries
• How to Determine When Self-Disclosure Might Be Appropriate or Contraindicated
• Key Information That Can Be Gleaned from a Client’s Transference of Jealousy or Envy

Strategies to Ease Jealousy-Fueled Patterns of Compulsive or Addictive Behavior
Dennis Tirch, PhD   Ron Siegel, PsyD   Deany Laliotis, LICSW

• How to Help Clients Shift Out of the “Jealousy-Envy Loop”
• A Four-Step Process to Help Clients Develop Psychological Flexibility
• The Neurochemical Impact of One Exercise That Can Help Tame Jealousy (and How to Implement It with Clients)
• One Approach to Help Work with Jealousy Within a Family Dynamic
• Mindfulness Exercises That Can Help Direct a Client’s Attention Away from Jealous Thoughts

How to Work with Romantic Jealousy That Can Devastate Relationships
Ron Siegel, PsyD   Thema Bryant, PhD   Frank Anderson, MD  
George Faller, MS, LMFT   Elliot Connie, MS, LPC   Stan Tatkin, PsyD, MFT

• How to Discern if a Client’s Jealousy Is Justified or a Result of Insecure Fears
• Three Areas of Inquiry to Help Pinpoint What Activates a Client’s Romantic Jealousy
• How to Address the Insecurities That Often Direct a Client’s Jealous Behavior
• Strategies to Help Shift a Client’s Response to Jealous Thoughts and Urges
• How to Work with the Underlying Fears That Often Fuel Jealousy in Relationships
• One Approach to Help Clients Who are Hesitant to Let Go of Jealousy
• How to Work with Jealousy When It’s a Justified Response to a Partner’s Actions

Strategies to Navigate the Nuances of Jealousy and Envy
Ruth Lanius, MD, PhD   Michael Yapko, PhD   Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD  
Thema Bryant, PhD   Raymond Rodriguez, LCSW-R   Joan Borysenko, PhD  
Chris Willard, PsyD   Dennis Tirch, PhD   Juliane Taylor Shore, LMFT, LPC, SEP

• Specific Questions to Pinpoint the Source of a Client’s Jealousy or Envy
• How to Differentiate Between Productive and Maladaptive Envy
• Strategies to Distinguish Between Internally and Externally Motivated Jealousy (and How to Work with Each)
• Two Strategies to Begin Addressing a Client’s Jealousy or Envy
• How Jealousy and Envy Impact the Nervous System (and One Way to Approach It)
• How to Navigate Past a Client’s Fears, Blocks, and Resistances to Reach Their Unmet Needs

How to Address the Social and Cultural Factors That Can Fuel Envy and Jealousy
Zindel Segal, PhD   Ray Rodriguez, LCSW-R  
Chris Willard, PsyD   Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD   Richard Schwartz, PhD

• How Cultural Norms Impact the Way Clients Perceive Jealousy and Envy
• An IFS Approach to Work with the “Legacy Burdens” of Jealousy and Envy
• Strategies to Address Destructive Jealousy and Envy That Leads to Racist or Xenophobic Thoughts
• How to Work with Jealousy and Envy That Results from Discrimination or Oppression
• Specific Psychoeducation to Reduce a Client’s Shame About Feeling Jealous or Envious

Pitfalls to Avoid When Working with Jealousy and Envy
Thema Bryant, PhD   Zindel Segal, PhD  
Usha Tummala-Narra, PhD   Ron Siegel, PsyD   Richard Schwartz, PhD

• Three Common Missteps That Can Active a Client’s Jealousy or Envy and Stall Treatment
• How to Approach Clients Who are Envious of Something They’ll Never Have or Achieve
• Strategies to Help Clients Sit with Painful Feelings of Jealousy or Envy (Without Shutting Down)

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About Ruth Buczynski, PhD

Dr. Ruth Buczynski is a licensed psychologist and founder and president of The National Institute for the Clinical Application of Behavioral Medicine (NICABM). NICABM helps physicians, nurses, psychologists, social workers, and counselors – practitioners who have some of the most significant and life-changing missions on the planet – provide cutting-edge, research-based treatment strategies to their patients. For more than 35 years, NICABM has offered accredited training and professional development programs to thousands of practitioners worldwide.

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