Experiencing Referral Resistance

Virtual Training, Webinar & CEU Event

Sam Schweitzer @ The Healing Collective

As a clinician or healer do you struggle with know when to recommend an increase in frequency or a higher level of care?

Are you avoiding those difficult conversations and trying to “keep” clients and then feeling stuck in their care?

Do you lean into the tools that already exist to support you in this process?

If you haven’t had training or effective supervision to learn how to develop these strategies, these conversations with clients might feel scary or daunting. As the clinician you might be experiencing all the emotions that the client should have because you’re unsure on how to deliver the clinical prescription. In this training by Sam Schweitzer at The Healing Collective, you will not only receive those strategies, you’ll also explore your own resistance to your own barriers that may be getting in the way. Subsequently, creating more ease once you have to tools, to provide this recommendation in the future to clients.

Experiencing Referral Resistance in Outpatient Therapy

CEU Webinar & Live Training

2 Part Series

  • Experiencing Referral Resistance: Part 1

    Clinician will explore the following personal and clinical barriers to referring to higher levels of care: setting appropriate boundaries, people pleasing, rescuing, need to control the outcome or codependency

    Clinician will be guided in tools to appropriately respond to the following client responses: fears of abandonment, bargaining, defensiveness, and emotional dysregulation 

    Clinician will be presented with the differences between clinical duty (ethics, appropriateness of levels of care, standing in clinical judgment) and clinical desires for the client

    Clinician will be made aware of tools to use to appropriately determine level of care

    Clinician will be trained on need for and examples of appropriate documentation as it relates to level of care

  • Experiencing Referral Resistance: Part 2

    Clinician will further explore the following personal and clinical barriers to referring to higher levels of care via role play and walk-out of how to put recommendations into action with a client 

    Clinician will be guided when stuck in role play with tools to appropriately respond to the following client responses: fears of abandonment, bargaining, defensiveness, and emotional dysregulation 

    Clinician will be supported in appropriate debrief for post-recommendation self-care around clinical duty and personal feelings 

    Clinician will be made aware of and practice the use of tools to use to prepare for an effective higher level of care recommendation

    Clinician will be trained on needs for staying out of pitfalls and in clinical integrity with regards to client care, client level of care, and effective self-care

Participants will gain

Personally, are you WILLING to look at what’s coming up for you when you are in a situation of recommending higher level of care?

Defenses, abandonment reactions, manipulation are all responses we can expect from a client needing higher level of care.

Clinically gain the strategies and responses that are effective in supporting clients in stepping into the care they need.

Strategies become our tools to support the process but also our own regulation while we support the client in receiving the recommendation.

Sam Schweitzer, LCSW, LCAS, CCS

Senior Clinician & Group Facilitator