Counselling training for health professionals

How to Motivate and Inspire your Clients

Clients not motivated to implement the goals and strategies outlined in your session?

Do you find it hard to fit a complete counselling process into a consultation?

Do you wish you had simple strategies and tools to motivate and inspire clients without having to go through a complex counselling technique in a time-poor environment, where you often need to assess, educate, train or treat as well?

*Teaching strategies to assist your clients to recognise and change unhelpful thoughts

*Activities and questions to assist your client to tap into their own motivation – so it keeps working when you are not there.

Develop an understanding of:

Self-efficacy and locus of control of behaviour
Why people look to diets rather than sensible healthy eating
Your clients agenda V your agenda
Why health is not a great motivator despite it being the first thing people say
The paralysing nature of fear and why your clients may not even know they are afraid
The victim mentality
The comfort of staying the same
How your thoughts govern your actions and how to change them (cognitive behavioural therapy)
Core beliefs and past experience
Pros and cons of change activity
The Decision Point (Health Change Australia)

Understand and practise:

Motivators don’t always have to be positive- learn to use negative emotions for change
Tapping into your clients personal motivators
Using client values to inspire change
The STAR Strategy© – a process for inspiring change
The “miracle question” from brief solution focussed therapy
Teaching your client to “Amplify their Angel”© – using self-talk to create change.
Negotiating goals – importance, confidence and action planning
Motivational Interviewing conversations – asking the right questions
Dampen enthusiasm- shattering the illusion of the need for perfection
Six degrees of satisfaction© – a tool to assist your clients to eat less comfortably.
The Accountability Scale© – increase your clients commitment to their goals

“Practical strategies, a useful session”

“Refreshing and different”

“Very passionate and enthusiastic presenter, Tool box achieved”

“Motivating, practical, interactive, interesting and energetic”

“Good for a different perspective in working with clients and ways to get clients thinking of how they can manage change”

“Shows participants how to tap into clients motivation increase their self-efficacy and manage their expectations”

“A good toolkit of psychological strategies for use in assisting behaviour change”

“Very practical and backed up by useful models, thought provoking”

“Very informative, a useful refresher for motivational interviewing, engaging”

If your clients are not managing to put your advice into practise and you are feeling frustrated or ineffective as a clinician/trainer, you are not alone. It is estimated up to 40 % of people do not adhere to their treatment regimes (source: http://www.assistmed.com/products-patient-adherence-patient-non-compliance-statistics/ )

If you are searching for a way to increase your client’s adherence to your recommendations and improve their health you need to develop skills that help your client to identify their own motivators and to realise the unhelpful habits and thoughts that are getting in the way of them starting and sustaining new healthy habits.

As a Dietitian I quickly learnt that people do not “do what they are told.” As human beings we tend to rebel against advice, even if it’s good advice, as our old ways are comfortable and safe. To that end I have undertaken further training in a number of different counselling techniques in order better assist my clients. These include:

What I have also learnt is that it’s often very difficult to fit an entire counselling process into an appointment time frame where often you need to be assessing, educating and/or treating your client as well. Secondly, to perfect a counselling technique takes a lot of time and supervision and this is not an option for most clinicians and trainers.

This practical workshop will provide clinicians and trainers with easy to implement behavioural strategies to inspire and motivate clients at different stages of change. The tools utilise different counselling styles and can easily be used as stand-alone techniques within any consultation.

Having completed this workshop, participants will have knowledge and confidence to practise these skills and be able to use the tools in their consultations immediately- the result will be more motivated clients and more fulfilled clinicians. No prior experience required.

Training can be run for organisations, specific groups of health professionals or individual clinicians. To register your interest please send an email to lisa@bodywarfare.com.au or via the contact page on this website.