Helping Your Clients Achieve Emotional Maturity

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Lindsay C. Gibson, PsyD, is The New York Times and Amazon #1 best selling author of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents: How to Heal from Distant, Rejecting, or Self-Involved Parents (New Harbinger, 2015). Her groundbreaking work has sold over 100,000 copies, been translated into 37 languages, and empowered thousands to break free from toxic legacies and reclaim their lives.

With over 30 years of experience as a psychotherapist and psychdiagnostician, Dr. Gibson identified that many clients’ anxiety, obsessions, and depression stemmed from distorted beliefs and emotional coercion imposed by emotionally immature parents. She observed that while these parents might not fall into severe mental health categories, their emotional immaturity had profoundly damaging effects on their children.

Dr. Gibson currently works as a clinical psychologist in private practice. Her follow-up book, Recovering from Emotionally Immature Parents: Practical Tools to Establish Boundaries and Reclaim Your Emotional Autonomy (New Harbinger, 2019), offers practical strategies for overcoming these challenges and fostering emotional resilience.  

 

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Lindsay Gibson maintains a private practice. She is a published author and receives royalties. Dr. Gibson receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. She has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Lindsay Gibson has no relevant non-financial relationships.

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Objectives

1. Discuss the negative impacts of emotionally immature parents on their adult children’s self-development, emotional awareness, and capacity for authentic emotional intimacy with others.
2. Identify the five areas of optimal emotional maturity where ACEIPs typically have trouble*
3. Describe the process of helping clients build their capacity to be honestly authentic and assertive with others
4. Utilize methods to help ACEIP clients feel healthily entitled to having their emotional needs met, as well as to their right to make decisions that may be unpopular with others.

Outline

Emotional Immaturity

• Emotionally immature (EI) Characteristics, types of EI parents, types of Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents (ACEIP)

What is Emotional Maturity?

Effects on Adult Children who become therapy clients

• Impact of emotional maturity on children and adult children
• Self-development, emotional awareness, emotional intimacy affected
• Problems with boundaries, stating preferences
• Lowered ability to know own mind, excessive anxiety and self-doubt
• Shame around needs for connection and support
• Freezing, fawning, people pleasing
• Interpersonal inauthenticity, imposter syndrome, self-consciousness
• Inhibited self-expression and assertion
• Excessive self-sacrifice, guilt, and moral obligation        

Roadmap to rebuild the self (Psychoeducation, IFS, AEDP, Coherence therapy)

• Emotional maturity goals
• Knowing the self, feeling the feelings
• Keeping the self-connection
• Challenging self-subjugating and self-effacing beliefs
• Clarifying emotionally mature relationship values and goals

Special considerations

• How to handle questions of estrangement
• Healthy entitlement without guilt; inner reparenting and empathy
• Risks and limitations of the research
   

Target Audience

• Counselors
• Social Workers
• Psychologists
• Psychotherapists
• Therapists
• Marriage & Family Therapists
• Addiction Counselors
• Case Managers
• Physicians
• Nurses
• Other Mental Health Professionals

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