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Avoidant Coping - Managing Withdrawal and Low Engagement16/07/20265:30 PMThis 3-hour interactive training workshop supports compassionate mental health professionals to work more effectively with clients who appear disengaged, withdrawn, ambivalent, or unmotivated. Rather than treating avoidance as resistance or lack of effort, the workshop introduces a psychologically informed framework that understands avoidance as a threat-based protection response. Participants will learn how perceived safety, nervous-system regulation, and relational dynamics directly shape engagement and motivation. The focus is practical, ethical, and clinically grounded — helping attendees recognise early signs of withdrawal, prevent relational ruptures, and restore engagement without pressure or confrontation. 16/07/20268:30 PMEXT Academy of Advanced Changework Category A - 3 Hourshttps://www.hypnotherapy.training/offers/9m4detgm/checkout        Active ~/images/events/external/aac_logo_965x500.pngEX26AAC3

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Avoidant Coping - Managing Withdrawal and Low Engagement

This 3-hour interactive training workshop supports compassionate mental health professionals to work more effectively with clients who appear disengaged, withdrawn, ambivalent, or unmotivated. Rather than treating avoidance as resistance or lack of effort, the workshop introduces a psychologically informed framework that understands avoidance as a threat-based protection response. Participants will learn how perceived safety, nervous-system regulation, and relational dynamics directly shape engagement and motivation. The focus is practical, ethical, and clinically grounded — helping attendees recognise early signs of withdrawal, prevent relational ruptures, and restore engagement without pressure or confrontation.

What will this course give you? 
- A clearer understanding of why avoidance and disengagement occur in therapy
- Practical ways to reduce defensiveness and increase psychological safety in session
- Greater confidence responding to missed appointments, ambivalence, humour, or shutdown
- Skills to repair subtle relational ruptures before engagement is lost
- Tools you can apply immediately to support motivation without pushing or persuading

Teaching Methods:
This training is delivered live online and uses a mix of brief expert instruction, facilitated discussion, live demonstration, and supported practice. Participants engage in guided reflection, clinical vignette work, and practical exercises, with debriefs to consolidate learning.

Downloadable worksheets and participant reference materials are provided to support integration into clinical practice.

Assessment / Evidence of Learning:                                
Learning is evidenced through active participation in guided reflection activities, clinical discussion, and practical exercises during this live workshop. Engagement in skills practice demonstrates attainment of learning objectives.
Participants receive a statement of attendance for 3 CPD hours.

Presenter:

Karen Bartle is a postgraduate in Health Psychology, Advanced Clinical Hypnotherapist, clinical supervisor, co-founder of the Academy of Advanced Changework, and co-author of The Advanced Hypnotherapist.

For over 25 years, Karen has worked with individuals, caregivers, and health professionals navigating behavioural, lifestyle, and psychosocial challenges. She has seen first-hand how caring practitioners can feel stuck when empathy, education, coaching and even motivational interviewing can’t shift engagement — and how reframing avoidance can transform therapeutic outcomes.


 

Disclaimer:
The content of this endorsed CPD course is provided by the external course provider. Attendees are encouraged to approach the material with an open mind and consider diverse perspectives, particularly those from lived experiences related to the topics discussed. For feedback regarding the course, please contact the course provider directly.
When
16/07/2026 5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
AUS Eastern Standard Time
Where
Online