Skills Lab – Empathic Validation

Have you wondered what empathic validation can do for your clients?
When a person brings their experience into the therapy room, what are they met with?
From establishing a therapeutic relationship to exploration of events, empathic validation seems to be the first move, where you are acknowledge the affect, understand its impact and leave the client feeling truly understood.
In this skills lab we will look at how this is done, where it breaks down and practise it together. Drawn from Mentalization Based Therapy, it is open to therapists of all backgrounds. 

This Session is Intended For

• Therapists in training (clinical psychology, counselling, psychiatry, social work)
• Early-career therapists interested in relational approach 
• Therapists/Trainees with curiosity about MBT but no prior formal exposure

Learning Objectives

Meet the Expert

Shilpa Nagarap is a licensed Clinical Psychologist (RCI) with an MPhil in Clinical Psychology from Manipal University. She offers both brief and long-term psychotherapy to adults with a focus on relational and reflective ways of working at The Green Oak Initiative.
Her clinical practice is strongly influenced by Mentalization-Based Treatment (MBT). She has completed her advanced training in MBT at The PARC and Anna Freud, under Prof. Anthony Bateman.