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Building emotional intelligence for therapists

Categories: Therapy Techniques
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About Course

This course introduces the core principles of emotional intelligence and how they apply to therapeutic relationships. You’ll learn to better understand client emotions, strengthen empathy, and manage your own emotional responses to improve client outcomes and therapeutic effectiveness.

What Will You Learn?

  • The core components of emotional intelligence (EI)
  • How EI enhances therapeutic relationships and client outcomes
  • Techniques for managing your own emotional responses during sessions
  • Skills for deeper empathy, attunement, and emotional mirroring
  • Ways to integrate EI into supervision, feedback, and clinical decisions

Course Content

Foundations of emotional intelligence (EI)
Understand the core components of emotional intelligence and why it's essential for therapeutic work.

  • What is emotional intelligence?
  • The role of EI in therapy
  • Self-awareness and emotional literacy
  • Foundations of emotional intelligence

Empathy and attunement in practice
Develop deeper empathic presence and the ability to tune into your clients’ emotional experience with sensitivity and precision.

Regulating your own emotional responses
Learn tools to manage your emotions in session, prevent countertransference, and stay grounded under emotional stress.

Integrating EI into therapeutic relationships
Apply emotional intelligence principles to strengthen your therapeutic presence, build trust, and support deeper client work.

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