The Value of a Group 

According to David L. Williamson, author of Group Power (1982), groups are important because we have discovered or rediscovered that personality is formed and shaped in the context of a small group - the family. Williams describes how we become what we are largely, if not totally, through our contact and involvement with others. Williamson adds, we can be and often are reshaped through our involvement with others, usually in a small, intimate context. Williamson details how small groups facilitate healing and growth, new life, and new discoveries that can be experienced in relation to others. He adds, we learn in part by observing and mimicking, by trying on a role, and by experience as we become aware of the way others respond, not only to us, but to each other.  

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 sustain 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.
• In addition to the group supervision hours, one hour of individual supervision is included.