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Mirroring Hands: Why Therapy Gets Stuck

Richard Hill, MA, MEd, MBMSc, DPC
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Learning Objectives

Participants will be able to:

  • Identify observable clinical indicators that therapy has become overly therapist-directed and may be inhibiting client change.

  • Distinguish between directive (top-down) and process-oriented (bottom-up) therapeutic interventions in clinical practice.

  • Describe the role of implicit and non-conscious processes in therapeutic change, drawing on contemporary psychotherapy and neuroscience research.

  • Apply process-oriented facilitation strategies, including elements of the Mirroring Hands approach, to support emergent client-led change.

Educational Goal

The educational goal of this workshop explores how therapist over-involvement — through directing, interpreting, or attempting to move the process forward — can inadvertently inhibit therapeutic change. It introduces clinicians to evidence-informed, process-oriented approaches that support implicit, experiential change, including applications drawn from the Mirroring Hands framework.

Description

This webinar will include clinical illustration and demonstration of key elements of the Mirroring Hands approach, allowing participants to observe how implicit, non-verbal processes can be accessed and supported in practice.

The emphasis will be on helping clinicians recognize when these processes are active in their own work, and how their interventions may either facilitate or interrupt change.

Richard Hill, the leading authority on Mirroring Hands therapy will cover: Why cognitive insight and deep change are not the same thing — and what happens in the gap between them How verbal intervention — however well-timed — can interrupt the very processes through which lasting change occurs What Mirroring Hands is, where it comes from, and what makes it clinically distinctive How the approach differs from — and relates to — existing methods you may already use What a fuller engagement with this work looks like — and how to take it further

Target Audience

  • Addiction Professional
  • Counselor
  • Marriage & Family Therapist
  • Psychologist
  • Social Worker

Presenters

Richard Hill, MA, MEd, MBMSc, DPC
Richard Hill, MA, MEd, MBMSc, DPC, is a psychotherapist, educator, and author internationally recognised for his work on curiosity, brain-mind science, and interpersonal neurobiology. He is the co-author of The Practitioner's Guide to the Science of Psychotherapy (Norton, 2022) and The Practitioner's Guide to Mirroring Hands (with Ernest Rossi). As Managing Editor of The Science of Psychotherapy and Clinical Science Director for CIPPS in Italy, Richard has helped translate the latest brain research into practical tools for frontline clinicians. Over the past decade, Richard has trained practitioners across the US and Australia, with his approaches showing promising preliminary outcomes in pilot effectiveness studies. This event marks his first full-length teaching appearance for UK and European clinicians, making this a rare opportunity to access a powerful model that blends neurobiology, therapeutic creativity, and real-world responsiveness. His 15-year apprenticeship with Ernest Rossi, esteemed psychotherapist and colleague of Milton Erickson, grounded his understanding of psychobiology and genetics within therapeutic practice. Currently completing doctoral research on client-responsiveness, Richard aims to discover common themes and qualities that could lead to a new theory for practice. Website: https://www.richardhill.com.au/

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