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SUPERVISION (top)
Individual Supervision: I provide individual supervision for therapists-in-training, post-doctoral interns wanting to do their internship in private practice, and other mental health providers wanting to continue their professional development. Similar to my approach to psychotherapy, I adapt supervision to your particular needs. Some supervisees want pragmatic suggestions, others may need help on case formulation, still others may want a safe place where they can talk about what comes up for them personally in their work with clients. Each supervision dyad is unique. We will work together to formulate a supervision experience that is tailored to what you are needing professionally.
Rate: $140 per hour (Student rates available based on financial need).
Group Supervision: I provide group supervision for early career therapists that have already had at least 1 year of individual supervision in their training program or practicum site. The group is small enough for everyone to get active input and support on their work. A brief screening will help me place you in a supervision group that best meets your needs and skill level.
Rate for group supervision: $60.00 for the 90 minute group.
AVAILABLE TRAINING/SUPERVISION “BLENDS” FOR THERAPISTS (top)
The following two-hour blends are being offered at various times and locations throughout the year. They are designed for the therapist who wants to get more in depth information than is typically offered in large CE workshop formats and who doesn’t necessarily want to join an ongoing supervision group. The smaller group format will allow for information to be tailored to particular content areas, your particular clients, and your unique set of circumstances. Workshops are offered to therapists and therapists-in-training in small groups of no more than 6 clinicians. Each topic will involve didactic presentation, discussion, case examples, and experiential components so that you leave with substantive ideas and skills you can truly use.
Fee: $60.00 (Student rates available based on financial need).
Introduction to Treating Trauma and PTSD. This is designed for the early career clinician or student who has an interest in specializing in trauma treatment. Through presentation, demonstration, and opportunities to role play (voluntarily), participants will come away with an increased comfort level about how the tenants of trauma treatment translate into actual practice. The treatment frame will follow a developmental stage model of healing. Emphasis is placed on the use of the therapeutic relationship as an avenue for change, whole life narrative and resiliency, and what can contribute to therapeutic impasse. Training will be adapted to the experience level of the participants.
Advanced Topics in Treating Trauma. This Blend is designed for therapists who already have a basic understanding of trauma, trauma treatment, and have had clinical experience working with PTSD. This is an opportunity to get intensive supervision and training in areas that have been missing or with cases that are particularly difficult for you. Topics will be tailored to themes requested by participants prior to each meeting. Previous topics have included Complex PTSD, transference/ counter-transference, therapeutic impasse, and using creativity in the treatment of trauma.
Managing YOUR Secondary PTSD. Working in this field, and with working with trauma in particular, can profoundly change us as clinicians and as people. This workshop is designed to identify, minimize, and address corrosive change that is particularly generated by treating trauma, while maintaining our ability to be open to the gifts this work can bring our lives. This Blend is for both experienced and beginning therapists as the development of Secondary PTSD knows no bounds.
The ART and Science of Psychotherapy: When clients enter the therapy room they bring along with them their symbols, their dreams, and their creative drive toward health and well-being. All too often, training programs give nothing more than a cursory nod to how to actually work with dreams and images. This Blend is designed to enhance clinicians comfort in tapping into this powerful source of healing. Through demonstration, case consultation, and experiencing, clinicians will come away with strategies to use in their own practice settings.
When Helping Hurts. It has a variety of names, but whether you call it Burn-out, Compassion Fatigue, Secondary PTSD, or simply hopelessness, you know how depleted this work can leave you feeling. This Blend is designed to help you identify the sources of your depletion and develop a plan for addressing them. The goal is for each clinician to leave with an increased sense of hope, renewal, and openness to the transformative changes that our profession can bring to our lives.
The Art of Practice Building. There are very few training programs that prepare us to manage the business side of psychotherapy in private practice. This Blend has three dimensions. The first is designed to give you some pragmatic tools needed to set up a practice. Beyond pragmatics, there will be avenues for exploring therapists’ personality and dynamics that can hinder or facilitate the growth of a successful practice. Finally, it provides an opportunity for case consultation on the complex dynamics that arise with clients around money. And since the group is limited to 6 people, there is plenty of room for consultation on your particular set of circumstances.
ETHICS WORKSHOP DECEMBER 2009 (top)
When Helping Hurts: The Ethics of Self-Care: Working in this field can profoundly change us as clinicians and as people. Whether we call it Secondary PTSD, Vicarious Traumatization, Compassion Fatigue, or simply Burn-out, we all experience these types of phenomena at some time during our career. Because the myth that “good” therapists don’t experience this, we often don’t talk about it, don’t address it, and left unchecked, it can shift ethical decision making and even set the stage for ethical misconduct. This workshop is designed to identify, minimize, and address these issues, while maintaining our ability to be open to the gifts this work can bring our lives. This workshop will be offered December 11, 2009 at Southern Polytechnic State from 9:00-12:00. CEs for L.P.C.s will be offered; CEs for psychologists are under review, the status on that will be posted as soon as I am notified.
Learning Objectives:
1. Through storytelling and didactic presentation, participants will learn a model for understanding and differentiating Secondary PTSD, Vicarious Traumatization, Compassion Fatigue, and Burn-out. Learning will emphasize how to understand these phenomena through multiple theoretical lenses.
2. Through the use of case material, participants will learn how unaddressed SPTSD/VT/CF can shift the clinicians’ world view in ways that impact subsequent clinical judgment and therapeutic interventions. The ethical implications of each of these shifts will be explored as well as how each can lead to specific ethical dilemmas and misconduct.
3. Through examination of current ethical guidelines and codes of conduct, each participant will gain an understanding of how addressing our own SPTSD/VT/CF is professionally required.
4. Through the use of multiple self-assessments and exercises, each participant can assess their current level of SPTSD/VT/CF and identify particular clinical shifts that have resulted.
5. Through guided exercises, each participant will develop an individual plan to minimize their SPTSD/VT/CF, ameliorate negative shifts in therapeutic practice, and ultimately decrease the clinical risk of ethical violations.
6. While this workshop is exploring some of the corrosive change that can result from doing this work, the ultimate goal is for each clinician to leave with an increased sense of hope, renewal, and openness to the positive, transformative changes that our profession can bring to our lives.
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