In the aftermath of trauma, getting to the heart of your client’s pain can be complex – especially when that client is caught in a defense response pattern that trauma researchers often identify as please and appease.


For many clients, chronic people-pleasing bleeds into every relationship. . .


. . . and when that includes the therapeutic relationship, it can block your client’s ability to open up (and ultimately stymie healing).


So how can you tell whether your client might be stuck in this type of pattern? And beyond that, what can you do to address it?


In the video, Pat Ogden, PhD shares one telltale sign of a please and appease response, as well as two strategies to help ease clients out of it.

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