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This session centers the clinician’s internal state as a core determinant of alliance quality. Participants will examine presence, attunement, self-in-relation awareness, and the impact of clinician regulation on patient engagement and felt safety. The session also introduces Care Predictor as a developmental mirror that can help clinicians understand how their default relational tendencies may support or strain alliance formation, especially under stress.

Educational Goal

Participants will examine how their own internal state influences timing, emotional containment, structure, boundary clarity, and alliance stability. The session emphasizes that clinicians do not simply deliver treatment; they are part of the treatment environment. Participants will learn to notice how rescue, avoidance, control, over-explaining, pleasing, or withdrawal may show up under stress and shape the interpersonal field.

Milestone / Homework Assignment

Presence Lab — The Clinician as a Regulating Variable

Complete this after 2–3 sessions:

Pre-session:

Rate activation (0–10)

Rate groundedness (0–10)

Identify your default move under pressure (rescue, control, avoid, perform, freeze)

During session:

Intentionally practice one relational anchor (slow speech, soften Jaw, lengthen exhale, widen gaze, pause before responding)

Post-session:

What did my nervous system do?

How did that affect the patient?

Did my presence increase or decrease safety?

What would I do differently next time?

Bring 2 completed logs to the next session. These observations should later inform your capstone’s section on your relational strengths and growth edges.

Presenters

Dr. Malasri “Mala” Chaudhery-Malgeri, Ph.D., CBIS is an executive leader, psychologist, and strategist who helps organizations and high-performing individuals turn complexity into clear, repeatable outcomes. She operates at the intersection of behavioral science, clinical quality, and program execution—translating human motivation and real-world constraints into systems that improve adoption, performance, and trust. Her work spans executive leadership and advisory roles across tech-enabled healthcare and behavioral health, with a focus on outcomes strategy, measurement frameworks, and “connection-to-care” design that reduces friction from first interest to next-step action. A sought-after speaker and panelist, Dr. Mala brings a rare blend of boardroom fluency and clinical depth. She speaks on Blueprint to Bridge leadership (turning strategy into delivery), workplace optimization and burnout prevention, behavior design for follow-through, recovery literacy (outcomes plus storytelling), clinical quality as a differentiator, rural systems of care, and intergenerational trauma and family systems. Known for an engaging, direct style—equal parts rigorous and human—she equips audiences with practical frameworks, language, and tools they can apply immediately. Dr. Mala’s expertise includes trauma and stress-related conditions (including PTSD), rehabilitation-focused psychology, military-informed care, performance and resilience, relationship and family systems, and integrative approaches that draw from both Western psychology and Eastern philosophy. Whether addressing executives, clinicians, educators, or community leaders, she is committed to making progress measurable, culture actionable, and care more accessible—building the bridge from intent to impact.

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  • Care Predictor