Treating Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

As a special bonus offer, the first 100 people to enroll in this course will receive a free e-book copy of Dr. Lindsay Gibson’s newest book, Self-Care for Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. See below for details and restrictions.

The children of emotionally immature parents often live with deep internal conflict that can last long into adulthood.

Growing up with caregivers who are selfish, detached from reality, or emotionally unavailable can leave their children with an incomplete and shamed self-image, impaired self-esteem, emotional constriction, and morbid feelings of severe non-entitlement.

But though they may be experiencing these struggles internally, frequently their behavior tells a different story.

The children of emotionally immature parents often live with deep internal conflict that can last long into adulthood.

Growing up with caregivers who are selfish, detached from reality, or emotionally unavailable can leave their children with an incomplete and shamed self-image, impaired self-esteem, emotional constriction, and morbid feelings of severe non-entitlement.

But though they may be experiencing these struggles internally, frequently their behavior tells a different story.

Because throughout their childhood they have often had to take on more responsibility to compensate for their parents, they may move through the world with the appearance of ease and capability.

On their first day of therapy, they often show up as insightful, competent, and kind — giving the impression of being a generally low-need client.

And because they lead with their strengths in this way, they can give the practitioner the sense that they are not struggling with feelings of anger, loneliness, betrayal, or abandonment as much as they truly are.

Over time, as the therapist begins to become more of an authority figure in the eyes of the client, they can become more deeply mired in their resistance and buried in their internalized story that their feelings are harmful and inherently “bad.”

Therapy can begin to feel more superficial and meaningful change can feel further and further away, leaving clinicians frustrated and clients disillusioned with the process.

Practitioners need an approach that helps clients carve a path for deep emotional work — one that allows them to work collaboratively with their clients to get to the root of their pain and heal their childhood wounds. And that’s exactly what you’ll learn inside our new course, Treating Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents.

Inside the Course

In this groundbreaking live online course, you’ll learn a powerful approach for meeting the particular needs of the adult children of emotionally immature parents (ACEIP) population.

This unique training is led by Dr. Lindsay Gibson, author of Amazon bestseller, Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents, and Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents. Through her writing, training, and clinical work, Dr. Gibson has become the leading expert in how to treat these newly identified adult children in psychotherapy.

In the first session of this four-part course, you’ll learn clinically useful information on the characteristics of emotional immaturity and how these traits create painful and damaging effects in all intimate relationships — especially between parent and child.

The second session will explore how these ACEIPs present in psychotherapy and why they can be deceptively difficult to treat. You’ll learn the unique psychoeducational, emotional needs of these clients, showing how parental emotional immaturity tends to prevent them from living from their authentic selves.

In session three, Dr. Gibson will teach practical interactional and self-awareness skills for clients, giving you the tools to help them interact successfully with EIPs and protect themselves from emotional takeovers and coercions. You’ll learn specific interventions for empowering ACEIPs in interactions that in the past would have aroused fear, shame, guilt, or self-doubt.

You’ll leave the final session with hand-picked emotional processing interventions from several well-researched therapy models — including emotionally focused therapy (EFT), accelerated experiential dynamic psychotherapy (AEDP), and internal family systems (IFS) — to heal different aspects of the client’s therapeutic needs. This special integration of different approaches is designed to resolve specific emotional and cognitive issues that arise from growing up with these parents.

Throughout this course, you’ll learn how to promote self connection and intimacy in your clients, help them break through resistance and connect to their vulnerability, and break them free of the altered consciousness and distorted beliefs that emotionally immature interactions can instill. Join this exciting new course and learn how to help your clients develop a deep and grounded sense of self so they can step fully into the lives they want.

Bonus offer: The first 100 people to enroll in this course will receive a free digital copy of Self-Care for the Children of Emotionally Immature Parents. Limit one per person. Digital copies will be distributed via email containing a unique link on the first day of the course, October 26, 2021.

This training is worth 8 CE credit hours if attended live. While we can only provide CE to those who are present – i.e. logged in – for live presentation(s), all Praxis webinars are recorded for later viewing. Registrants may then access these recordings at any time for up to six months from the conclusion of the training to which they pertain.

Prior to registering, please review speaker-planner conflict of interest disclosures and complete CE information.