Overcoming The Fear of Confronting Narcissistic Clients

Learn how to confidently take on grandiose clients with skill in Working With Grandiosity, the new LIVE 5-part course from Terry Real. Learn more and join below. 

New LIVE Course with Terry Real

Learn To Confidently Take On, Motivate, and Guide Grandiose Clients Into Loving Connection

How to confront narcissistic clients, build an alliance, and help them reconnect to themselves and those around them in Working With Grandiosity.

Grandiose people are not in pain, they’re in trouble. The people around them are in pain.
- Terry Real

Here’s An Overview of Everything You Get In Working With Grandiosity

5 LIVE 90-minute Classes with Terry Real

3 LIVE Q&A Calls with Bonny Slim from the RLI Faculty

5 LIVE 90-minute Classes with Terry Real

Refer back to the material as many times as you need to support your work. 

7.5 CEs are available for this course

What You’ll Learn

In this interactive, live course you’ll learn practical skills, interventions, and therapeutic stances to effectively work with grandiose clients and lead them into healthy connection.

Key topics you’ll explore:

When It Feels Good To Be Grandiose….. How Do You Motivate Narcissistic Clients To Change?

We’re often taught to handle grandiose clients with kid gloves—to be nice, to nurture them.

But, unfortunately, nurture alone isn’t enough to motivate these clients to change.

As therapists, our job is to supply what’s deficient. So nurture is critical for shame-based clients… but when it comes to grandiosity, what’s deficient is empathy, accurate judgment, and accountability.

Grandiose clients need waking up to the impact of their behavior and confronted with the consequences of not doing the work.

Leaning in and confronting a grandiosity can be terrifying, which is why so many shy away from it—even seasoned therapists.

But you can learn to do it artfully and confidently in this brand new LIVE course from Terry Real. Over 5 classes, you’ll learn the necessary strategies and interventions to effectively manage even the most grandiose clients, guiding them towards relationality and the joy of authentic connection.

Join Working With Grandiosity Today

Choose the payment option that best suits you.

3 x Monthly Payments

$175

Single Payment

$495 

Our Promise and Guarantee

We’re confident you’ll love Working With Grandiosity, but we offer a 100% money-back guarantee for your peace of mind. If, for whatever reason you’re not completely satisfied, please contact us at support@terryreal.com within 48 hours of the first live call and we’ll issue you a full refund, no questions asked.

Meet Your Teachers

Terry Real,

Creator of Relational Life Therapy

Terry Real, LICSW, is an internationally recognized family therapist, sought-after speaker, and bestselling author, who has transformed how we approach relationships.

He is the creator of Relational Life Therapy (RLT), a groundbreaking therapeutic approach that equips people with the essential relational skills to build and sustain authentic connections—to themselves, each other, and the planet as a whole.

The author of four books, Terry’s most recent is the New York Times bestseller, Us: Getting Past You and Me to Build a More Loving Relationship, which guides readers toward deeper intimacy and fulfillment. Known as “the turnaround guy,” Terry is famous for his extraordinary ability to save couples on the brink of divorce. Through his esteemed training school, the Relational Life Institute, he has trained thousands of mental health practitioners in his RLT method to date.

Terry is committed to relational empowerment, helping everyone develop the skills needed for meaningful, lasting relationships.

Bonny E. Slim,

LMFT in Private Practice

Based in West Hartford, Connecticut, Bonny began training in Relational Life Therapy in 2012, and has participated in most of the courses that Terry has offered since then.

She is a senior member of the RLI faculty, training other mental health professionals in the RLT model.

Through co-facilitating several Relational Bootcamps, Bonny discovered how transformative the group experience can be. Her favorite aspect of RLT is the awareness that practicing relational skills in our own lives is essential to be able to authentically share/teach these skills to others.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is this course live?

Yes—this course consists of 5 LIVE 90-minute classes with Terry Real and 3 supporting 60-minute Q&A calls with Bonny Slim to explore the course material in greater depth.

The classes take place on the following dates and times:

90-minute classes with Terry Real:

  • Class 1: Thursday, October 17, 12–1:30 pm ET
  • Class 2: Wednesday, October 23, 9:30–11:00 am ET
  • Class 3: Monday, October 28, 2–3:30 pm ET
  • Class 4: Tuesday, November 5, 12–1:30 pm ET
  • Class 5: Thursday, November 7, 12–1:30 pm ET

60-minute Q&A calls with Bonny Slim:

  • Call 1: Friday, October 25, 11am–12 pm ET
  • Call 2: Friday, November 1, 11am–12 pm ET
  • Call 3: Friday, November 8, 11am–12 pm ET

Don’t worry—all classes will be recorded and stored in your private learning platform, the RLT Hub, for you to watch at your convenience. You’ll receive log in and access details as soon as you enroll.

Forever! You’ll have lifetime access to the class recordings inside the private learning platform, to watch back as many times as you like.

Yes—7.5 CEs are available for professionals who attend all 5 live calls with Terry Real for an additional $40 fee. Find more information on CEs here.

A limited number of partial scholarships are available for those with financial need. Please email us at support@terryreal.com with a brief outline of the following: your financial ability, your unique situation or challenge you are facing, and how you plan to use your learnings from this course (2-3 sentences max).

We’re confident you’ll love Working With Grandiosity, but we offer a 100% money-back guarantee for your peace of mind. If, for whatever reason you’re not completely satisfied, please contact us at support@terryreal.com within 48 hours of the first live call and we’ll issue you a full refund, no questions asked.

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CEU REQUIREMENTS:

The Relational Life Institute is pleased to offer:

Working With Grandiosity

Relational Life Institute (RLI) has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7495. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Relational Life Institute (RLI) is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.

ACEP No. 7495

FORMAT: Five LIVE Online Sessions on Zoom, facilitated by Terry Real, LICSW

Continuing Ed credits offered:  7.5 credit hours for 5 Classes (no partial credit)

At the completion of this course, all participants will be invited by email to purchase the 7.5 CE credits for a $40 fee. To receive a certificate, you must attend the full course, pay the certificate fee, and complete our course Evaluation Form. There is no partial credit, attendance will be taken.

Content: Over 5 LIVE 90-minute classes with Terry Real, you will learn how to effectively address issues of grandiosity in their clients. You’ll discover a range of strategies and techniques to confront grandiose clients with the impact of their behaviors, build an alliance, motivate them to change, and guide them into connection—with themselves and those around them. 

Learning Objectives: At the completion of this course, participants can expect to:

  1. Identify what’s deficient in grandiose clients and understand how you supply it as the therapist.
  2. Identify strategies to confidently handle resistance, evasion, and verbal abuse.
  3. Understand how to reconnect grandiose clients to themselves and those around them.

Throughout the course, you’ll learn to: 

  • Understand the origins of grandiosity and why it isn’t always a defense against shame.
  • Identify techniques to find leverage to motivate grandiose clients to engage in the therapy.
  • Explain why taking sides is critical when working with grandiosity—and understand how to do it.

Target Audience: Social Workers, MFTs, Counselors, Substance Abuse Counselors, Nurses, and LMHCs, LMFT’s, Educators, Chemical Dependency Counselors 

Course Content Level: The course content is appropriate for Beginner level clinicians.

Cost:  $495 in full; or 3 payments of $175 each

Course Dates & Hours:    

  1.       Thursday, Oct 17 from 12-1:30pm ET
  2.       Wednesday, Oct 23 from 9:30am – 11:00am ET
  3.       Monday, Oct 28 from 2-3:30pm ET
  4.       Tuesday, Nov 5 from 12-1:30pm ET
  5.       Thursday, Nov 7 from 12pm to 1:30pm ET 

Cancelation Policy: You may request a refund up to 2 days after the first live session.

Please contact support@terryreal.com if you wish to cancel your purchase.

If you need special accommodations or have questions, please contact us. 

Registering for the course on the RLI website is required to receive a Continuing Ed Certificate.

FAQ’s

How do I receive the Zoom link?

The Zoom link is emailed to you from ZOOM when you register for the course. If you do not receive the link, please contact us at support@terryreal.com

Should the name you register with match your Zoom name?

Yes, your first and last both names must be entered on your registration and then displayed on the screen during all classes. Please do not use nicknames, or employee ID numbers or log into Zoom using a co-worker or family member’s Zoom Account as this will post you as ABSENT.

When will I get my certificate?

Certificates will be available in about ten business days of the event. Certificates will be emailed to the email address you used to register for the course.

Please contact our Support team if you have any questions support@terryreal.com 

Instructor’s Bios:

Terry Real, LICSW: Terry Real is the bestselling author of I Don’t Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, the straight-talking How Can I Get Through to You? Reconnecting Men and Women, The New Rules of Marriage: What You Need to Make Love Work and most recently Us: Getting Past You & Me to Build a More Loving Relationship just debuted in June 2022.

He founded the Relational Life Institute, offering workshops for couples, individuals, and parents as well as a professional training program for clinicians.   Terry’s work, with its rigorous commonsense approach, speaks to both men and women. A proponent of “full-throttle marriage,” Terry has been called “the most innovative voice in thinking about and treating men and their relationships in the world today.”

CONFLICT of Interest: There is no known conflict of interest or commercial support for this event.

Grievance Procedure:

If a student believes they have been discriminated against, they can submit a written complaint that includes their name, address, phone number, location, date, and a detailed description of the issue. If a student with a disability disagrees with the accommodation provided or has any other grievances, they can schedule a meeting to discuss and attempt to find a solution together. If the student is still not satisfied with the accommodation after further discussion, they can contact the Operations Director for the Relational Life Institute (RLI), Lisa Sullivan, via phone, email, or mail. If the grievance cannot be resolved, the complainant will be advised to contact the appropriate Ethics Committee or Licensing Board. The Operations Director will keep all grievances and their resolutions confidential in locked files. A copy of this Grievance Procedure is available upon request.

Contact information: ACEP Administrator & Operations Director for Relational Life Institute (RLI), Lisa Sullivan follows: 291 Nahanton Street, Newton, MA 02459; 617-861-3030 lisa@relationallife.com