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Five Therapy Questions That Create Deeper Sessions

Overview:

The questions therapists ask can significantly influence the depth, direction, and effectiveness of the therapeutic process. While many clinical interventions focus on symptom reduction and behavioral change, intentional questioning serves as a powerful therapeutic tool that helps clients increase self-awareness, uncover underlying beliefs, identify unmet needs, recognize strengths, and develop greater insight into their experiences. Without purposeful and strategic questioning, important contributors to emotional distress may remain unexplored, limiting opportunities for meaningful and lasting change.

In this presentation, Dr. Zairys Feliz, Ph.D., LCSW, will guide participants in utilizing intentional questioning as a clinical intervention to deepen therapeutic conversations and enhance treatment outcomes. Attendees will explore how carefully crafted questions can uncover core beliefs, cognitive schemas, unmet psychological needs, personal strengths, desired future states, and opportunities for meaning-making. Through evidence-informed approaches and clinical case examples, participants will learn how intentional questioning can strengthen the therapeutic alliance, increase client engagement, promote self-reflection, and facilitate insight-driven change. Emphasis will be placed on practical strategies that therapists can immediately integrate into clinical practice across a wide range of presenting concerns and treatment settings.

Objectives:

• Describe the role of intentional questioning in strengthening the therapeutic alliance, fostering self-awareness, and promoting meaningful client insight.

• Identify underlying beliefs, cognitive schemas, unmet psychological needs, and personal strengths through purposeful therapeutic questioning.

• Apply intentional questioning techniques to facilitate insight, motivation, resilience, meaning-making, and goal-directed therapeutic change.

Free 1-Hour Clinical Training

Ever leave a session feeling like you spent 50 minutes gathering information but never reached the deeper emotional work?

Many clinicians experience moments where sessions stay focused on events, updates, or problem-solving—but struggle to move into insight, emotional processing, or meaningful change.

The right question at the right moment can shift a session from surface conversation into deeper therapeutic work.

This free training explores five practical questions clinicians can use to deepen emotional exploration, strengthen therapeutic engagement, and create more impactful sessions.

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In This Training You'll Learn:

✓ Five practical questions that deepen therapy sessions

✓ Why some questions open emotional processing while others unintentionally shut it down

✓ How to move beyond information gathering into deeper clinical work

✓ Common therapist habits that keep sessions on the surface

✓ How timing, pacing, and delivery impact client responses

Examples of Questions Explored:

• “What feels hardest about that for you?”

• “What part of this feels familiar?”

• “What are you feeling right now as you talk about this?”

• “If that feeling had words, what might it say?”

• “What feels most important for me to understand?”

Who This Training Is For

This training was created for:

• Licensed Social Workers
• Pre-Licensed Social Workers
• Therapists and Clinicians
• Group Practice Clinicians
• Mental Health Professionals seeking practical clinical tools

Whether you're newly licensed or experienced, these strategies can help create deeper and more meaningful therapeutic conversations.

Course Information

Course Title:
Five Therapy Questions That Create Deeper Sessions

Format: Self-paced online access

Includes:
• Video training
• Clinical examples
• Session demonstrations
• Downloadable handout

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