“I’m stuck!” is a common way people arrive in therapy. It can also emerge mid-therapy, when momentum slows and everything starts to feel gridlocked. At first, this kind of presentation can seem straightforward: as therapists we may move quickly to problem-solve, offer strategies, or explore practical steps to help the client move forward. The difficulty is that many people remain stuck, struggle to access the tools we offer, and make limited change despite our best efforts. Over time, this can generate friction and frustration for both client and therapist. So what then?

Date: Friday 26th & Saturday 27th June

Time: 4pm to 8pm (AEST) both days

Location: Online

Cost: $437 AUD (incl GST) or $397 AUD (incl GST) for members (please apply your member code for discount on registration)

This workshop explores what it really means for clients to feel “stuck,” how to recognise and differentiate different kinds of stuckness, and how therapist and client can connect more meaningfully with what is happening in the room and in the client’s life. We will introduce new tasks to complement existing EFT practice, developed in work with chronically stuck eating-disorder clients during the SPEAKS programme (Oldershaw et al., 2024; Oldershaw et al., 2025). The workshop aims to offer practitioners concrete tools for working with stuck presentations, inviting them to lean into the experience of stuckness, help clients understand and loosen it, and support more engaged and productive therapeutic work.

This training employs an interactive and lively format. Tasks are illustrated using videos, taught descriptions, and small and large group experiential practice and discussion. All tasks covered in the training have an associated workbook with detailed step-by-step instructions.

Attendees will learn:

What it means to get stuck in therapy and why people can struggle to engage in key EFT processes, such as experiencing emotion and receiving empathy
The range of presentations that can impact traditional EFT delivery and/or create a sense of stuckness in therapy and in life, including:
- Chronic self-interruption, and how this differs from classic self-interruption in EFT
- Neurodivergent processes
- Ambivalence about therapy
What we can practically do to reduce stuckness and support clients to engage in therapeutic EFT work, including:
- How and when to apply existing EFT tasks
- Using adapted and new tasks developed during the SPEAKS intervention development and research programme

Contact the host of Working with Stuckness

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