Understanding Internal Conflicts in Theray

Clarifying Change & Listening for Direction
13 Lessons
- Competency and Learning Objectives
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- Why This Skill Matters
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- Clarifying the Change Target
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- Distress vs Change Statements
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- Structural Conflict
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- Listening for Growth Language
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- Listening for Protective Language
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- Direction Before Intervention
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- Clinical Integration Examples
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- Hearing the Conflict Infographic
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- When Direction Isn't Enough
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- Module 1 Quiz: Knowledge Check: Clarifying Client Direction
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- Discussion Forum Module 1
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Identifying the Primary Level: Capacity, Regulation &Timing
12 Lessons
- Competency and Learning Objectives
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- Assessing Capacity Before Intervention
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- Understanding Regulation Levels
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- Level 1: Regulated Capacity
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- Level 2: Workable Conflict
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- Level 3: Protective Dominance
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- Level Shifts & Trauma Clarification
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- Clinical Sequencing & Common Therapist Mistake
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- Orient to Capacity Infographics
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- Module 2: Practice Test
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- Module 2 Quiz: Capacity & Timing
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- Discussion Forum Module 2
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Behavior Is a Strategy: Identifying What the System Is Protecting
13 Lessons
- Competency and Learning Objective
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- Behavior is a Strategy Infographics
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- Why Behavior Matters
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- Behavior Has Structure
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- Clinical Breakdown: Action, Strategy, Need
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- Core Reframe
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- Action vs. Strategy vs. Need (Critical Distinction)
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- Basic Human Needs Behind Protective Actions
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- Clinical Reminders
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- Behavior is Organized Around Protection Infographic
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- Module 3 - Practice Test
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- Module 3 Quiz: Knowledge Check: Identifying Protective Actions and Needs
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- Discussion Forum Module 3
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Understanding Emotional Signals - How Emotions Reveal Needs
17 Lessons
- Competency and Learning Objectives
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- Why Emotional Signals Matter
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- The Translation Ladder
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- Clinical Questioning Process
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- Emotional Families: What Different Emotions Signal
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- Understanding Emotional Signals Infographic
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- Simple vs Complex Emotional Translation
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- When Emotional Signals Become Difficult to Translate
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- Understanding Emotinal Signals Infographic
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- Expanded Clinical Understanding of Shame
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- Integrating Emotional Signals Into Clinical Direction
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- For Review: Examples of Translation Ladder
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- Three Questions to Find the Need Infographic
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- Emotion Need Translation Guide Inforgraphic
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- When Emotions Feel Stuck Infographic
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- Module 4 Quiz
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- Discussion Forum Module 4
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Building the Full Conflict: Mapping Structural Ambivalence & Preserving Symmetry
16 Lessons
- Competency and Learning Objectives
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- Why This Module Comes After Assumptions
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- The Core Structure of the Conflict
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- Infographics Structure of Needs
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- Needs vs Actions (Critical Distinction)
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- Example of Internal Conflict
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- Infographics-from client statement
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- How Therapists Discover the Needs Conflict Map
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- Why Symmetry Matters
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- Therapist Mistake Example
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- When Not to Map the Needs Conflict Map
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- Why Mapping Reduces Shame
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- Module 5 -Practice Quiz
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- Module 5 Quiz: Conflict Mapping
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- Important Clinical Next Step
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- Discussion Forum Module 5
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Identifying Assumptions: The Beliefs Maintaining the Conflict
12 Lessons
- Competency and Learning Objectives
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- Understanding Assumptions in the Needs Conflict Map
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- Assumptions on Both Sides of the Conflict
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- Identifying Assumptions in Client Language
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- Exploring Assumptions in Session
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- Why Assumptions Maintain Conflict
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- Approaches That Help Shift Assumptions
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- Infographic
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- Module 6 -Practice Test
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- Module 6 Quiz: Testing Assumptions
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- Why This Matters in Therapy
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- Discussion Forum Module 6
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Creating Movement: Testing Assumptions and Expanding Behavioral Options
11 Lessons
- Competency and Learning Objectives
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- Why Assumptions Become Rigid
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- The Goal of Testing Assumptions
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- Curiosity-Based Exploration
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- Behavioral Experiments
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- Matching Intervention to Nervous System Capacity
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- When the Conflict Begins to Move
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- Key Takeaways
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- Module 7 Practice Quiz
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- Module 7 Quiz
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- Discussion Forum Module 7
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The Invisible Conflict: Why Clients Get Stuck & How to Move Forward

How identifying competing needs helps you move clients out of stuck patterns—faster and with greater clarity.

Course Curriculum

Clarifying Change & Listening for Direction

Identifying the Primary Level: Capacity, Regulation &Timing

Behavior Is a Strategy: Identifying What the System Is Protecting

Understanding Emotional Signals - How Emotions Reveal Needs

Building the Full Conflict: Mapping Structural Ambivalence & Preserving Symmetry

Identifying Assumptions: The Beliefs Maintaining the Conflict

Creating Movement: Testing Assumptions and Expanding Behavioral Options