The Psychology of Patient/Client Change

A practical, evidence-based framework for understanding coping patterns and reducing resistance.

Sound all too familiar...?

You care deeply about your patients or clients. and you’re skilled and committed, but some clients are still struggling to engage. They know what to do, but don’t follow through the way you’d hoped?

You’ve tried empathy, education, even motivational interviewing — and it still doesn’t motivate your clients into implementing change? It’s not you. It’s psychology!

Some coping styles make change conversations more challenging for clients/patients, and many compassionate health professionals feel frustrated when some people seem unmotivated, 'resistant', or disengaged — despite their best efforts and evidence-based advice.

Understand the hidden coping patterns that drive resistance (e.g., unmitigated agency, unmitigated communion, avoidant coping, pessimistic attribution, rumination).

Communicate in ways that meet clients where they are — without confrontation or exhaustion.

Reignite motivation, restore connection, and protect your own empathy and wellbeing.

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Perfect if you feel frustrated, emotionally drained, or ineffective with a subset of patients or clients.

The Psychology of Patient/Client Change provides health professionals with an evidence-based framework to understand why people resist change, and how to communicate differently with each psychological coping pattern.

The program is designed to make every conversation a little more effective, and every client a little more reachable.

It will help you reframe these difficult encounters through a modern understanding of coping, safety, and readiness, and use psychologically attuned strategies that restore trust, motivation, and agency.

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