COUNSELING:

INTERVENTION TOOLS
PRACTICAL TOOLS 2022
MOST OF CLIENTS´COMPLAINTS ARE FULL OF:

DEPRESIIVE
FEATURES
• JUDGEMENTS ABOUT PAST ACTIONS, SELF-BLAME, REGRETS
• SELF DEFEATING MESSAGES, INSECURITY IN SELF, NOT DESERVING LOVE (Self
esteem)
• PAINFUL MEMORIES AND SOCIAL SHAME, POOR SELF IMAGE
• THOUGHS OF INSUFFICIENCY: “I HAVE NEVER BEEN ABLE TO…”
ANXIETY
FEATURES
• CATASTROPHIC ANTICIPATION OF THE FUTURE
• DISILLUSIONMENT OF RELATIONSHIPS AHEAD, LACK OF HOPE
• POOR EVALUATION OF MY ABILITIES TO FACE SPECIFIC CHALLENGES
• RUMINATION OF FUTURE RIDICULE, EGO, SAFETY, ECONOMY, POPULARITY, ETC.

CLIENTS WILL ASK YOU: HOW DO I STOP PROCRASTINATING?

OVERTHINKING ABOUT MY EX? ETC.
WHICH TOOLS DO YOU
HAVE TO OFFER TO YOUR
CLIENTS?
Think of what you have learned in school and in your own
experience in life

There is nothing more practical than a Good theory

Kurt Lewin
THE TOOLS
LIFESTYLE IS OFTEN, THE ONLY AND THE BEST
STARTING POINT FOR THERAPY PROGRESS
LIFESTYLE THERAPY

• But it is important so sell it in a way that STRESSES THE KEY IS MENTAL HEALTH.
• So, tell your client, FIRST YOU HAVE TO STRENGHTEN YOUR LIFE FORCE, and
the best way to do it is having a Good relationship with your BODY.

WORK ON YOUR
LIFE FORCE FIRST
LIFE FORCE

• But it is important so sell it in a way that STRESSES THE KEY IS MENTAL HEALTH.
• So, tell your client, FIRST YOU HAVE TO STRENGHTEN YOUR INNER SELF, and
the best way to do it is having a Good relationship with your BODY.
GETTING OUT OF TYPICAL TRAPS

• LIFE FORCE PYRAMID

• First, let’s start with the Life Force Pyramid. Stutz begins with the most important thing
we should work on, our life force. He posits that if we ONLY work on the three levels of
our Life Force Pyramid everything else in our life will fall into place. 
THE MAZE (ACTIVE LOVE)
PART X
PART X
THE SNAPSHOT
GETTING OUT OF TYPICAL TRAPS

• Starting a positive transformation is hard, because we want to avoid pain, and remain in
our confort zone, and moving away from our confort zone will imply pain. But we need
to trust that beyond that initial pain, there will be possibilities.
THE TOOLS