Navigating Existential Countertransference

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• Catch countertransference before it happens with a dying, suicidal, or grieving client
• See exactly how your own fears are shaping the care you give
• Leave with an actual burnout plan, not just the warning signs

 

Sometimes a client’s crisis brushes up against your own.

And when you’re working with clients on the largest questions a person can face – death, meaning, isolation, freedom – your own struggles and fears inevitably come up …

… and shape how present and how helpful you’re able to be.

This training helps you hold space with more steadiness, grounded in the philosophy behind existential psychotherapy and the ethical principles for staying present when this work reaches you too.

Watch ethics expert Kirsten Lind Seal, PhD, LMFT, who will explore how existential countertransference emerges across diverse clinical settings, including identity transitions, grief, life-stage changes, illness, end-of-life care, and other situations that prompt clients and therapists alike to confront fundamental questions of existence.

You’ll learn how to:

• Apply existential frameworks to meaning, isolation, freedom, and death anxiety
• Recognize countertransference with elderly, ill, suicidal, and end-of-life clients
• Navigate self-disclosure and boundaries in existential work
• Apply ethical codes to existential clinical challenges
• Build self-care practices that prevent burnout

This work doesn’t leave us untouched, and that reality carries real ethical weight.

Purchase today!