Enhance Your Therapeutic Practice
Learn to apply common factors for positive outcomes in therapy, including therapeutic presence, attunement, alliance-building, and more.
Move Beyond Technique
Develop confidence, steadiness, and clarity in the moment-to-moment work of therapy using evidence-informed frameworks and clinical examples.
Practical and Real-World Application
Gain practical insights and reflections to support your real-world practice and enhance your therapeutic skills.
About the Course
The therapeutic alliance is one of the strongest predictors of outcome in psychotherapy, yet many clinicians receive limited training in how to build, assess, and repair it in real time. In this workshop, we will explore alliance as a dynamic, evolving process rather than a static trait. Participants will deepen their understanding of Bordin’s framework (bond, goals, and tasks), learn how misalignment and rupture naturally occur, and develop practical skills for maintaining collaboration across sessions. We will also examine subtle relational processes, including pacing and nervous system synchrony, that strengthen or strain the bond. This session offers concrete language, clinical examples, and reflective practices to help clinicians feel more confident and grounded when alliance feels fragile.
About the Creator
Dr. Carol-Anne Hendry is a clinical psychologist with extensive experience working with children, adolescents, adults, and families across a wide range of clinical presentations. In addition to her clinical practice, she is a supervisor, educator, and co-director of Solasta Psychological Services, where she supports clinicians at multiple stages of professional development. Much of Dr. Hendry’s work has focused on helping early-career therapists develop confidence, judgment, and presence in the therapy room, particularly during moments of uncertainty, complexity, or emotional intensity. Her approach is grounded in common factors research, attachment-based and experiential perspectives, and years of lived clinical and supervisory experience. These courses are shaped by the realities of practice: the moments when sessions feel slow, unclear, or emotionally demanding, and when technique alone does not provide direction. Dr. Hendry brings a steady, relational, and reflective teaching style, offering clinicians a way to think about therapy that emphasizes process, presence, and integrity over performance. Her goal is to support therapists in growing into their work with confidence and humanity, developing skills that are sustainable, responsive, and deeply attuned to both client and clinician.
What People Are Saying
Discover how this course is transforming the therapy practice of clinicians like you.
This workshop helped me slow down and trust the therapeutic process instead of constantly questioning myself. I left feeling more grounded and clearer about what actually matters in the room.
MSW
What stood out most was how normal uncertainty was made to feel. The focus on presence and process helped me feel more confident without needing to ‘do more’ in sessions.
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
I really appreciated the practical application and reflection questions. It helped me figure out what I wanted to focus on moving forward.
Clinical Psychologist (Supervised Practice)
The material was thoughtful, practical, and deeply reassuring. I’ve already noticed myself approaching sessions with more steadiness and less performance pressure.
C. Psych (Supervised Practice)
This workshop helped me slow down and trust the therapeutic process instead of constantly questioning myself. I left feeling more grounded and clearer about what actually matters in the room.
MSW
I really appreciated the practical application and reflection questions. It helped me figure out what I wanted to focus on moving forward.
Clinical Psychologist (Supervised Practice)
What stood out most was how normal uncertainty was made to feel. The focus on presence and process helped me feel more confident without needing to ‘do more’ in sessions.
Registered Psychotherapist (Qualifying)
The material was thoughtful, practical, and deeply reassuring. I’ve already noticed myself approaching sessions with more steadiness and less performance pressure.
C. Psych (Supervised Practice)
Ready to Strengthen Your Therapeutic Practice?
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$75.00