Working With Resistant Clients and Families: A Practitioner's Guide to Breaking Through

Matt Brown • 2026-03-15

If you have spent any meaningful time doing intervention work, you already know this moment well: the family member who refuses to sit in the circle, the identified patient who storms out before you have finished your first sentence, or the parent who scheduled the intervention and is now actively sabotaging it. Resistance is not the exception in this field — it is the terrain.