Every day, countless clients walk into our therapy rooms carrying an invisible burden—a relentless need to please that silently erodes their mental health, relationships, and sense of self.
What if the very survival strategy that once protected them is now the biggest obstacle to their healing, regardless of diagnosis?
Between Sessions is excited to collaborate with Charlotte Bailey, an integrative, trauma-trained psychotherapist passionate about helping people-pleasers address the root cause of guilt, anxiety, and self-sacrifice. Drawing from CBT, EMDR, and Schema Therapy, in this webinar she helps us understand the deep-rooted patterns behind people-pleasing so that as CBT therapists, we understand how to work with this trans-diagnostic symptom.
People-Pleasing: Considerations for CBT Therapists
This webinar explores people-pleasing as a trans-diagnostic coping strategy, examining its origins and how it presents across various mental health difficulties. It highlights practical CBT interventions to help clients break free from automatic compliance patterns while also considering countertransference dynamics that may arise in therapy.
Understanding people-pleasing: Recognising it as a learned protective response rather than a fixed personality trait.
Origins and maintenance factors: Exploring how attachment experiences, early conditioning, trauma, and neurodivergence contribute to people-pleasing.
Trans-diagnostic perspective: Understanding how people-pleasing manifests across GAD, depression, perfectionism, burnout, OCD, and other difficulties.
CBT interventions: Applying the Five Areas Model, challenging unhelpful beliefs, using behavioural experiments, and introducing graded assertiveness work to manage distress.
Therapeutic considerations: Recognising how people-pleasing may show up in the therapy room and what to be aware of as a therapist.
This session equips therapists with strategies to recognise, formulate, and work effectively with people-pleasing tendencies while addressing the emotional challenges clients may face when breaking these patterns.
About Charlotte
Charlotte Bailey is an integrative, trauma-trained psychotherapist passionate about helping people-pleasers address the root cause of guilt, anxiety, and self-sacrifice. Drawing from CBT, EMDR, and Schema Therapy, she helps clients uncover the deep-rooted patterns behind people-pleasing so they can build self-worth, set boundaries with confidence, and embrace their authentic selves.
As the podcast host of Let’s Talk People-Pleasing!, Charlotte combines personal experience with professional expertise to offer a trauma-informed yet down-to-earth and relatable perspective on breaking free from people-pleasing habits.
Beyond therapy, she mentors fellow therapists, helping them navigate client challenges and show up authentically in their practice.
Follow her on Instagram and check out here website Charlotte Bailey Therapies to learn more!
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