Clinician Development Courses & Supervision Groups

saying less is incredibly helpful, not every thought is valuable, not every feeling needs to be voiced, what is often best is to slow down and spend time developing a clearer and more informed perspective, ego rushes and reacts, but peace moves purposely and gently 

~yung pueblo, the way forward 

Upcoming Clinician Development Supervision Group

 

This clinician development supervision group experience, available for LPCCs and MFTCs, is a unique opportunity to gain advanced clinical insights and growth.  

This group experience will focus on the knowledge, reasoning, and logic underlying the Assessment, Goal, and Intervention (AGI) sequential practice framework to progressively move clients toward the goldmine of psychotherapy - the post-goal development action phase.

  • During our six-week experience, we will focus on the following:
    • Setting the stage for sustained client engagement in treatment.
    • Establishing distinctions for our clinical role and therapeutic practice.
    • Conceptualizing the scaffolding of sequential practice.
    • Engaging a process-focused therapeutic assessment for systemic impact.
    • Narrowing the gap between client story, action and experience.
    • Identifying a single transformative outcome during the goal development phase of psychotherapy.
    • Anchoring the transformative goal to ethics, integrity, values, virtue, and purpose for characterological impact.
    • Exploring the dilemma of change to minimize impediments to action.
    • Implementing interventions to expand on client homeostasis and facilitate the sustainment of client action.
  • The AGI framework can serve as a guide for scaffolding and conceptualizing the clinical efforts for most psychological theories. 
  • Participants will gain functional insights to guide clients from hope to action.

Maximize the potential gains from this group by scheduling a new client to start soon after the first day of our group meetings.

 

Here is a partial/selected list of the bibliography underlying our work:

 

  • Barka, J.B. (1983). Procrastination: why you do it and what to do about it. Addison-Wesley Publishing Company.
  • Bion, W. (1965). Transformations (1st ed.). Basic Books.
  • Chaleff, I. (2009). The courageous follower; standing up to and for our leaders (3rd ed.). Berrett-Koehler Publishers, inc.
  • Gilligan, S., & Price, R. (Eds.). (1983). Therapeutic conversations (1st ed.). W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Hill, N. (2021). Adversity & advantage: achieving success in the face of challenges . Sterling Ethos.
  • Johir, Q. (2024). When you speak like this, God answers. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DGgU8tpOmA
  • Johnson, S. (1985). Characterological transformation. W.W. Norton & Company
  • Mahoney, M.J., (2003). Constructive Psychotherapy. The Guilford Press, New York
  • Mahoney, M.J., (1991). Human change processes. Basic Books
  • May, Rollo. (1975). The courage to create. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Papp, P. (1987). The process of Change (4th ed.). The Guilford Press.
  • Ruesch, J. (1961). Therapeutic Communication. W.W. Norton & Company.
  • Satir, V. (1988). The new people making. Science and Behavior Books, Inc.
  • Sullivan, B. & Thompson, H. (2013). The plateau effect: getting from stuck to success. Penguin Group, New York, NY.
  • Watzlawick, P., Weakland, J. H. & Fisch, R. (1974). Change (1st ed.). W.W. Norton & Company.

 

Two Groups offered on the following dates:

 

  • Wednesdays: January, 8, 15, 22, 29 and February 5, 12 
  • Thursdays: January 9, 16, 23, 30 and February 6, 13
    • Each group will meet from 7-8:30 pm

 

Investment: $45, per person, per group meeting.

Location: Remote via Zoom Pro  

 

  • Total of 9 hours of group supervision will be endorsed.
  • One individual supervision meeting, included. 

 

Clinician Character Development Group

"The stronger your character, the greater your growth potential."

~ John C. Maxwell, The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth

Information

Adapted from the character development work detailed in The 15 Invaluable Laws of Growth by John C. Maxwell, this clinician development round table will focus on the principles essential to the character growth of clinicians.

 

  • The group would meet each week from 2/4 to 6/10, break for the summer, and resume weekly, 9/9 to 12/9. 
  • Each week, we will discuss a principle, along with its characteristics and benefits.
  • We will evaluate ourselves on where we stand in each area.
  • Commit to taking specific action toward expanding oneself.  
  • We will hold each other accountable for our commitments and discuss the next principle. 

 

Together, we will draw from and grapple with the following principles:

 

  • Authenticity, Attitude, Boundaries, Coddling, Collusion, Conflict, Congruence, Courage, Confrontation
  • Curiosity, Creativity, Criticism, Directness, Discernment, Efficiency, Emotions, Ethics,
  • Faith, Fear, Fragility, Identity, Integrity, Judgment, Love, Morale, Motivation, Oppression, Ownership
  • Patience, Power, Purpose, Pressure, Responsibility, Shame, Safety, Security
  • Seduction, Self-esteem, Slowness, Status, Sacrifice, Values, Virtues                   

 

To maximize the gains from this round table experience, journaling is recommended. 

Some sources of inspiration to facilitate discussion:

 

 

Expected group size: 8-12 participants

 

This experience is proposed to start February 5th, 2025, Wednesday, 5:30-7:00 pm. Please contact me if you have any questions.

Fee: $25 per person, each group meeting

To register for a Professional Development Supervision Group or for the Therapist Character Development Group, Complete the form below: