This 3-hour interactive training workshop supports compassionate mental health professionals to work more effectively with clients who appear highly driven, dominant, intensely solution-focused, or resistant to emotional depth. Rather than mislabelling over-control as confidence, arrogance, or narcissism, this workshop introduces a psychologically informed framework that understands unmitigated agency as a threat-based protection response. You’ll learn how perceived loss of control, autonomy threat, and subtle power dynamics shape engagement and defensiveness. The focus is practical, ethical, and clinically grounded - helping you recognise early signs of control-based withdrawal, prevent power struggles, and foster emotional flexibility without undermining autonomy.