This training begins Thursday, April 6th. Click here to go to our course registration page.
This course introduces clinicians to “chair work.” Chair Work includes 1) Two-Chair Dialogues for the resolution of intrapsychic conflicts and maladaptive self-treatment (i.e., self-criticism, self-interrupting, self-worrying), as well as 2) Empty Chair work for the resolution of interpersonal “unfinished business” related to (usually unavailable) significant others from the client’s life.
Meetings will include lecture, discussion, demonstration, and significant experiential practice.
What: An introduction to therapeutic chair work.
When: Spring 2023. Thursdays, 9am to 12:15pm
- April 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th,
- May 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th.
Where: 615 Congress Street, STE 423, Portland, ME, 04101
Who: For Counselors and therapists who wish to add chair work to their clinical repertoire.
Instructor: Tom Kubasik, LCPC, NCC
Click here to register for this training.
Topics include:
Meeting 1: Introduction to Chair Work; current interpersonal chair work.
Meeting 2: Self-Critical Splits
Meeting 3: Self-Critical Splits
Meeting 4: Unfinished Business
Meeting 5: Unfinished Business
Meeting 6: Self-Interruption
Meeting 7: Self-Worrying
Meeting 8: Self-Compassion
Learning Objectives
This course will help participants will be able to:
- Identify circumstances in which therapeutic chair work could be productive, as well as when chair work would be contraindicated.
- Distinguish the two major types of chair work (two-chair vs. empty chair), as well as differentiate different forms of client self-treatment.
- Utilize the “experimental attitude” with chair work techniques.
- Facilitate productive deepening and differentiating of client experiencing through sensitive attunement to moment-by-moment client processes.
- Pre-Licensed (Students and Conditionally Licensed) : $595
- Fully Licensed: $745
A deposit of $95 dollars is required to hold your space.
A certificate of 24 Contact Hours will be provided upon completion of the program.