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Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship: Connecting with Challenging and Resistant Clients

Author(s) : Anabelle Bugatti

Reviews and Endorsements

"This volume offers the reader a simple but rich perspective on just how potent the art of consistent empathic responding can be in the lives of therapy clients - indeed in all our lives." - Dr Sue Johnson, author of Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love.

"Bugatti's courageous voice speaks to the heart of emotionally focused therapy. She illustrates how the power of empathic responsiveness and attachment theory depathologizes diagnostic labels and paves a clear path towards engaging with persons in distress rather than seeing them as problems to be treated. Her portrayal of relentless empathy is a window that opens beyond static labels of mental illness, addictions, anger reactions, and collegial conflicts into the core of human goodness and needs for connection where lasting change is created. She beautifully shares personal and clinical examples that embody the healing impact of Carl Rogers' triad of empathic understanding, unconditional positive regard, and therapist genuineness. Bugatti has succeeded in her goal to create a brief resource of helpful nuggets that can help therapists of all persuasions to open their hearts to have non-judgmental understanding for their most challenging clinical encounters." - Lorrie Brubacher, ICEEFT Certified Trainer, author of Stepping into Emotionally Focused Couple Therapy: Key Ingredients of Change.

"So refreshing to find a book with practical tools to empower therapists to use their gifts of empathy to connect and transform lives, both personally and with the most difficult of clients." -George Faller, ICEEFT Certified Trainer, author of Sacred Stress A Radically Different Approach to Using Life's Challenges for Positive Change.

"Anabelle Bugatti offers clinicians across the globe a challenge to take a deeper look, to take a more empathic look, at each and every client we meet. And it doesn't stop there. This book helps us broaden our empathic gaze in all human interactions, which is very timely at this point in human history." Jennifer Fitzgerald, PhD, ICEEFT Certified Trainer, Co-Director Australian Centre for EFT, co-author of An Emotionally Focused Workbook for Couples: The Two of Us.

"With laser-like focus, Dr. Bugatti lays out how relentless empathy propels therapy forward with even the most difficult cases, and conversely how a lack of empathy blocks progress in therapy. Well worth the read!" - Scott R. Woolley, PhD, Distinguished Professor, California School of Professional Psychology, Alliant International University.