How to Motivate Your Clients to Change

By: Lyn Kelley

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

Length: 2 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

New, updated edition 2023. Dr. Lyn Kelley, Ph.D., MFT, CPC, Certified Professional Coach, gives you the PROVEN step-by-step process of how a person changes and how mental health professionals, coaches, and other human service providers can best help people to create and maintain changes. Based on years of research and study by this authors well as many other motivational experts. For therapists, coaches, teachers, trainers, and healthcare providers – anyone who wants to assist people in moving toward their goals and success. Dr. Lyn walks you through the stages of change. She takes you through the step-by-step process of motivation, change, and overcoming obstacles. It is essential to understand and empathize with your client’s readiness to change, and assist them in moving forward at their own pace. This book will help anyone unlock their internal passion and desire and get motivated to pursue their best life! Here’s what you’ll learn: --6 Great Reasons to become a motivational expert --What does a “Motivational Coach” do? --The main theories of what motivates people --How to help people create their own goals based on their true values --The 6-step change process everyone goes through --How to coach rather than lecture or advise --How to help clients set healthy and attainable goals --Definitions of success --Internal vs external motivation --How to conduct an assessment --Why people sabotage their success and how to get them to stop it --The BEST success secrets from the motivational superstars – Anthony Robbins, Brian Tracy, Barbara DeAngelis, Wayne Dyer, Les Brown, Denis Waitley and others --The best of self-help and pop psychology --How top Coaches motivate their clients --What makes people change --Quick change vs. gradual change --What you can change and what you can’t --How to get clients “unstuck” and get them to commit to achieve their goals --The 7 major self-sabotages --How to help clients prioritize and make good decisions --How to use the power of positive affirmations, visualizations and new self statements --The first and most important thing to do --Developing ambition --Controlled focus --Cognitive strategies for self-defeating statements --Using life traumas or difficulties as motivators --How to draw out your clients’ passions and dreams --The 3 V’s: Values, Vision and Voice --The “PPPP” Principle that motivates people beyond belief --“The Drop-Out Factors.” The 5 hidden reasons clients drop out of treatment and what you can do about it --“Client Retention Alert!” Precisely what to do and say so clients will stay in your program --How to use people’s religious or spiritual beliefs as a motivational force --The simple 5-step coaching process you can do anywhere, anytime, with anyone --Maintenance, termination and relapse --How to help clients create social support --Positive affirmations and self reinforcement --Visualizations that inspire clients to amazing growth --3 things to give clients before they leave their session --Program structure --How to keep yourself motivated --Preventing burnout --Operating at peak performance --The 7-Step success cycle