WSTD 2025 - COUPLES ST | Empathic Confrontation: How to Access the Soft Core | Eckhard Roediger - Video

In this powerful and practical presentation, Dr. Eckhard Roediger (Germany) — Training Director of the Frankfurt Schema Therapy Institute and past ISST President — demonstrates how empathic confrontation helps therapists reach the soft emotional core hidden beneath the hard, defensive shell of externalizing clients.

Using a detailed live demonstration with a couple, Roediger shows how therapists can guide partners from reactive “red modes” of anger and control toward deeper vulnerability, connection, and balance between autonomy and attachment needs.
Through techniques such as the observer position, body-focused awareness, and imagery-based dialogue, he illustrates how to access emotion safely and transform confrontation into genuine emotional contact.

Roediger’s approach integrates Contextual Schema Therapy principles and his two-leg mode model, offering therapists concrete tools to expand their emotional bandwidth with clients and couples — helping them move from fight and flight toward trust and presence.

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