Client-Therapist Relationship

After studying the scientific aspect of their specialty as a naturopath, homeopath, or bio-energetician, practitioners will explore the study of their personal relationship with clients. The client/practitioner relationship goes beyond scientific boundaries, as it also includes a human relational dimension. Each client has feelings, emotions, specific psychological traits, and a unique personality. In this course, practitioners will address the ethical aspects of the client relationship, always considering them as unique individuals.

Included teaching methods:

  • E-Learning training: an interactive, motivating, and effective learning method. 
  • Printable course workbooks 
  • Online exams
  • Access to the student centre
  • Videos and virtual library.

Course Content Description

The Therapeutic Relationship Beyond Alternative Medicine

  • The personal aspect of each practitioner
  • Friendly support
  • Emotional support
  • Moral support
  • Energetic dynamic
  • The unconscious
  • The subconscious
  • Cognitive model
  • What we already know
  • Alternative medicine
  • Intuitive model
  • What we don’t know

Psychology

  • Analytical therapies
  • Body therapies
  • Surgical therapies
  • Transformational therapies
  • Behavioural therapies
  • Perceptual therapies
  • Transpersonal therapies
  • Psychiatry
  • Psychology
  • Psychotherapy
  • Energy psychodynamics

From Energetic Blockages to Physical Manifestations

  • Energetic dynamics
  • Energetic techniques
  • Psychological dynamics
  • Techniques for awakening consciousness
  • Physiology of emotions
  • Main themes;
  • Vertical movement of the body
  • Horizontal blockage
  • “NO” and “YES” in the body
  • Expansion and contraction
  • Breathing
  • Sorrow
  • Rage
  • Fear
  • Joy

The Health Practitioner in the Therapeutic Relationship

  • Altruism
  • Listening
  • Empathy
  • Authenticity
  • Humility
  • Basic tasks in the therapeutic relationship
  • Non-directiveness
  • Reformulation
  • Levels of reformulation
  • Observation
  • Knowledge
  • Technique and helper
  • Judgment
  • Decisions
  • The purpose of the meeting
  • Your feelings
  • Transference and counter-transference
  • Support team

The Enneagram

  • Praise of differences
  • An impulse that becomes a compulsion
  • Making friends with oneself
  • How does it work?
  • An ancient tool well-suited to modern times
  • Self-knowledge and sense-seeking
  • Enneagram advantages in your personal life:
  • Enneagram advantages as a naturopath:
  • Links to physical health
  • A deep understanding of the inner world
  • A specific biochemical reality for my type
  • Some basic concepts
  • Humans, a tri-brain being (have three brains)
  • 1) The visceral brain and bodily intelligence
  • Spiritually
  • Physically
  • Psychologically
  • Relational intelligence
  • Our personality type
  • Getting to the root cause
Brief Description of the 9 Personality Types - Type ONE, called The Reformer
  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – as a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • If this is your client, how to recognize them?
  • Their selective attention: 
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect

TWO, called The Helper

  • Brief summary of this personality
  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • If your client is a Type Two – how to recognize?
  • Their selective attention: 
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance.
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect – A few steps toward healing

Type Three, called The Achiever

  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • If this is your client: How to recognize?
  • Their selective attention: 
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect

Type Four, called The Individualist

  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • If this is your client: How to recognize?
  • Their selective attention: 
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect – A few steps toward healing

Type Five, called The Investigator

  • Brief summary of this personality
  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • If this is your client: How to recognize?
  • Their selective attention
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect

Type Six, called The Loyalist

  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • If this is your client: How to recognize?
  • Their selective attention
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance.
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect – A few steps toward healing

Type Seven, called The Enthusiast

  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • If this is your client: How to recognize?
  • Their selective attention
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect—
  • A few steps toward healing

Type Eight, called The Challenger

  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • Their selective attention: 
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance.
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect – A few steps toward healing

Type NINE, called The Peacemaker

  • Brief summary of this personality
  • An adaptation strategy in 3 phases
  • If this is your type – As a therapist
  • Your positive traits
  • Your pitfalls
  • Your challenges
  • Their selective attention: 
  • What they try to prove
  • Their physical appearance
  • Stress and imbalance
  • How to support their vital energy?
  • Diet
  • Herbalism
  • Psychological and spiritual aspect – a few steps toward healing

Questionnaire to Discover Your Enneagram Type

  • Review of knowledge
  • Answer key
  • Graded activities
background review

Very comprehensive: I can see the great progress I can make in my interviews thanks to this information.

Armelle K., New-Brunswick, Canada

Very interesting course that allows us to know ourselves better. The enneagram is truly fascinating. Thank you!

Stephanie R., Quebec

Excellent course. Absolutely happy I took it.

Lina M., Germany

Excellent. In particular, the knowledge of the enneagram is a very interesting tool.

M. Saint-Val, Ontario, Canada

Fascinating course that would have been helpful to have from the very first practical cases. Excellent quality!

Amandine Vanhoutte, Paris, France

Super interesting overall, and especially the discovery of the enneagram with all this detail. Thank you

Coralie Leman, Ste-Lucie

Very interesting! I loved the enneagram

S. Vallette, physician, Montreal, Quebec

I really liked the chapter on the enneagram, especially the College’s approach that highlights the strengths and weaknesses of each type as a therapist and as a client. I found the use of herbalism as a bioenergetic complement very relevant.

Irazu Sanchez Hernandez, Quebec

This course is extraordinary!

Dr Mouna Belkhayat Zouggari, Morocco

The enneagram is a powerful tool for becoming aware of your strengths and weaknesses, truly amazing!

Isabelle Le Gregam, France

This course felt like a letter the author wrote directly to me, to reveal the deep knowledge I need to know myself, to truly be able to understand myself, and to understand others so as to live more easily with them. Thank you for this great treasure you have given us, and I will keep digging deeper. 

Valentin Agon

Really helps broaden awareness regarding the therapist’s role and the importance of the client’s intention during the interview. Great guide! The enneagram was truly a revelation for me; I will now pay more attention to my challenges and pitfalls!

Elise Ménard, Quebec