Enquiry Questions to Deepen Client Sessions and Client Outcomes
In this course, Dr. Christine McKee explains how carefully structured enquiry questions can deepen client self-awareness, strengthen accountability, and support more empowered therapeutic change. Drawing on general clinical practice as well as somatic and trauma-informed principles, she shows how to use questions intentionally to keep sessions focused, relationally safe, and clinically productive.
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In this course, psychologist Dr. Christine McKee, Ph.D., introduces a practical framework for using enquiry questions to deepen client sessions and improve outcomes across individual and couples work. She outlines what makes an enquiry question effective, how to structure questions with clarity and intention, how to distinguish between widening and deepening prompts, and how to apply somatic and trauma-informed language to support regulation, reflection, and behavioural change. The course offers clinically useful examples that help practitioners guide clients towards greater self-awareness, present-time functioning, and more empowered choices in therapy.
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