5. Three Points of Attunement

Episode: 3 Points of Attunement

1. Attunement with Client. (Common way of thinking about attunement)

• The client decides when you are in attunement, not the therapist. Therapists tend to overate the level of attunement.
• Practical suggestion: Ask your client at times in the session, “Am I understanding you? Do you feel like I am with you in your experience?” As a part of wrapping up the session, you can ask, “Do you feel like I was attuned/with you in your experience?”

2. Attunement with self

• Energy-matching
• Tolerance-Therapist has to have a full range of expression. If we think of emotional attunement as a high powered V8 engine, are there more times you are operating on 3 cylinders.
• Soul-The ability to meet people in really deep places. 

3. Attunement to target

• Once you are on a mission to get a response back to vulnerability, you sometimes have to intentionally mis-attune with some spontaneous cues that present in order to stay on target to honor the vulnerability that was shared.

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