The NICABM people have a seminar that they advertised like this (calling clients "challenging"):
When a client seems unable to make progress, and your tried-and-true strategies don’t appear to be working . . .

. . . what do you do?
Next Level Practitioner Program - NICABM

The woman always seemed puzzled when she tried idiotic things that failed.

1. Asking me if I would say X to a friend (No, but I would think it)
2. Telling me others do/do not do X (so ****ing what - why would I care what
others do or don't do?-I was not telling her about
x because I thought I was a special little ****ing snowflake)
3. Telling me what she did/would do (like I thought she was someone to
emulate? Was I supposed to go all like if a therapist does it then it must be
okay? What sort of insane ****ing nonsense is that?)
4. Telling me she thought X was a good idea or bad idea (Like I ****ing cared
what she thought about it)
5. Pointing out the obvious and treating me like a slack jawed drooling idiot.
7. Playing dumb (she really could not have been as dumb as she pretended)