This program begins January 22nd, 2026.
What: A training group for clinicians who have some background in experiential therapy, but are new to couples therapy — or, have experience with couples therapy, but not with experiential work. The material covered will draw from experiential therapy traditions: Person-Centered, Gestalt, Focusing, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Psychodrama.
When: Eight Thursdays from 10:00am to 12:30pm.
- January 22nd, 29th
- February 5th, 12th, 19th, 26th
- March 5th, 12th
A certificate of 20 Contact Hours will be issues on completion of the program.
Where:
GETME Experiential Process Studio
615 Congress Street
Suite 423
Portland, ME, 04101
Trainer: Tom Kubasik, LCPC, NCC
Cost: Sliding Scale of $450 to $550
Suggested:
Students: $450
Conditional License: $500
Full License: $550
Program Learning Objectives:
This program will help participants to:
1. Utilize a systemic understanding, participants will analyze partners’ relational conflict cycle, and be able to describe it in process terms, both for themselves and for their clients.
2. Assess clients’ moment-by-moment depth of experiencing, as distinguished from client verbal production, and sensitively access more primary experience.
3. Demonstrate the ability to structure client enactments in order to arrest and reverse relational conflict cycles.
4. Isolate the idiosyncratic impact of emotional injuries, and coach partners toward effective repair.
Topics Include:
Meeting 1: Introduction of the course; the rationale for working experientially; perception, emotion, meaning & action in couple difficulties.
Meeting 2: Establishing two relationships, appreciating two worlds, tracking two pains; moving from confusion toward understanding.
Meeting 3: Varieties of Relational Conflict Cycles; Attachment & Identity.
Meeting 4: Working with Polarities: pursuers/ withdrawers, dominants/submitters, under- functioning/over-functioning; reality fights.
Meeting 5: “The Music and the Lyrics” or “Text and Subtext” (Clearly distinguishing client verbal production from client experiential meanings).
Meeting 6: Accessing and Deepening Client Experiencing; the vital importance of the Growth Tendency.
Meeting 7: Deepening contact with Enactments: The When, the How, and the Why.
Meeting 8: Affairs, Emotional Injuries, and Repair Work. Working between two cycles.
Experiential Couples Therapy Registration:
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