BRAND-NEW!
When Saying Yes Meant Survival: Helping Clients Recover from People-Pleasing
Presented by: Dreya Blume, LCSW
When: Thursday, February 26th, 2026 | 9:00 AM – 12:00 PM, Pacific Time
Where: Live on Zoom. You will receive your Zoom link/invitation the week of the workshop.
Continuing Education Credit Hours: 3 CEs | $95.00
For many clients, people-pleasing is not just a habit: it began as a survival strategy. Saying “yes” in childhood may have kept them safe, secured approval, or prevented conflict, but in adulthood it often leaves them anxious, resentful, and disconnected from their own needs.
This training helps psychotherapists understand the deeper roots of people-pleasing through the lens of trauma, attachment, and relational dynamics, while offering concrete strategies for healing.
Participants will explore how to compassionately validate the protective origins of people-pleasing while supporting clients to set boundaries, reclaim their voice, and practice self-advocacy. With a mix of clinical insight, case examples, and practical tools, therapists will leave with new ways to help clients transform people-pleasing patterns into healthier, more empowered ways of relating.
Objectives
- Develop an understanding of people-pleasing as a trauma-informed survival response with relational and cultural roots.
- Learn therapeutic strategies to help clients identify, interrupt, and shift automatic people-pleasing behaviors.
- Identify interventions that support boundary-setting, self-compassion, and authentic self-expression in clients recovering from people-pleasing.