Clinical Neutrality · Part 2 of 3
Clinical Neutrality: Part 2 of 3
Friday, February 19
12 to 2 PM CT (10 AM to 12 PM Pacific)
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Clinical Neutrality: Part 1 of 3
Karen King, MS, LPC/LMHC
$100
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Registration closes at 11:00 AM Central Time (9:00 AM Pacific) on November 20, 2026.
About this event
What do we do when a client becomes deeply attached to a particular story about themselves, another person, or the world?
Therapists can easily find themselves pulled toward agreement, reassurance, challenge, problem-solving, or premature reframing. Clinical Neutrality offers another possibility: become more curious.
In this experiential two-hour training, Karen King, MS, LPC/LMHC, takes Clinical Neutrality from therapeutic stance to practical clinical intervention. Building upon humanistic, relational, and contemplative traditions, participants will learn how to enter a client's subjective world without becoming captured by the client's interpretation of it or imposing an interpretation of their own.
Karen introduces a three-stage clinical process that therapists will practice entering the client's experience with genuine curiosity, creating space around assumptions and fixed narratives, and trusting the client's inherent capacity for insight, agency, and transformation.
Registration asks for your license or program and your contact details, then payment. Registration closes at 11:00 AM Central Time (9:00 AM Pacific) on Nov 20.
About the presenter
Karen King, MS, LPC/LMHC, is a psychotherapist, clinical supervisor, educator, and author with 20 years of experience in mental health care. She is the former founder and director of Emerge Clinic, a multidisciplinary mental health practice in Washington State that served approximately 6,000 clients.
Karen is the co-author of Sensible Psychedelics and founder of the Nuanced Therapist Network, a professional community dedicated to clinical integrity, intellectual independence, open inquiry, and thoughtful dialogue within the mental health professions.
Drawing from humanistic, existential, relational, and contemplative traditions, Karen's work explores the relationship between therapeutic presence, psychological depth, and clinical neutrality. She is particularly interested in how therapists can remain curious about a client's subjective experience without reinforcing fixed narratives, imposing their own interpretations, or losing sight of the client's capacity for insight and change.
Her Clinical Neutrality training series invites therapists to move beyond ideological assumptions and habitual clinical responses toward a more spacious, discerning, and genuinely client-centered practice.
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