This group currently has openings.
This is a small experiential group for clinicians who want to deepen their understanding of the processes involved in experiential couples therapy. The material draws from Person-Centered Therapy, Gestalt Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy (particularly the Greenberg/Goldman version), Psychodrama, and the facilitator’s two decades of conducting couples therapy.
Each meeting consists of one hour devoted to an experiential couples therapy topic, and one hour devoted skills practice.
Topics include:
Experiential Therapy Theory
The Rogerian Attitude
Process Assessments
Systems Theory
Emotion Theory
Conflict Cycles
Loving Cycles
Attachment, Identity and Attraction
Role Theory
Polarities
Pursuers & Withdrawers
Dominants & Submitters
Over-functioners & Under-functioners
Working with Developmental Histories
Accessing Emotion
Deepening Emotion
Processing Emotion
Enactments (Gestalt Experiments)
Non-verbal communication
Differentiating client verbal production from client experiential meanings
Emotional Wounds
Affairs
Repairs (Between Partners)
Repairs (Between Partners & Therapist)
Although the facilitator will be prepared each meeting ready to present a topic, the direction of the group as a whole, and of each meeting in particular, can be profitably steered by the group members themselves based on their immediate interests and needs.
Participants will sign up for a series of (typically) 6-8 meetings at a time, and pay for all meetings that are held while they are members. Current members have first right of refusal for a place in the next round of meetings.
Spring Dates:
April 23rd
May 7th & 21st
June 4th & 18th
Summer Dates:
July 2nd, 16th & 30th
August 13th & 27th
Autumn Dates TBA
At the end of each series of meetings, participants will be given a certificate of completion comprised of one hour of clinical continuing education, and one hour of supervision/consultation, for each meeting attended.
What: A group for clinicians who want to explore experiential couples therapy experientially.
When: Every other Thursday morning from 10am to 12pm
Where:
GETME
615 Congress Street / 142 High Street
Suite 423
Portland, ME, 04101
Facilitator: Tom Kubasik, LCPC
Cost: $45 for each 2-hour meeting
Experiential Couples Therapy Seminar Registration Form:
