Experiential Therapy Study Group

This group meets for two hours every other week, with two purposes:

Training, in the form of lecture, demonstration and discussion.
Supervision/Consultation, centering on how to directly and immediately apply these learnings to your work with clients.

Each meeting will include a lesson — some aspect of theory & practice drawn from the humanistic / experiential therapy traditions (here at GETME, that means: Person-Centered, Focusing, Gestalt, Existential Therapy, Emotion-Focused Therapy, and Psychodrama) — followed by experiential supervision/consultation.

Topics may include:

The necessary and sufficient conditions for a therapeutic process
Rogerian Empathy
Unconditional Positive Regard
Authenticity / Genuineness / Congruence
Empathic Attunement
Empathic Reflection
The Actualizing Tendency vs the Self-Actualizing Tendency
The Focusing Attitude
Clearing a Space
The Felt Sense
The Handle
The Felt Shift
Contact
Awareness
Gestalten
The Contact/Experience Cycle
Retroflection
Introjection
Projection
Deflection
Confluence

Here & Now
The Gestalt Experiment
Death
Freedom/Responsibility/Choice
Existential Isolation
Meaning
EFT Emotion Theory
Schematic Emotional Memories
Empathic Understanding
Empathic Exploration
Empathic Conjecture
Evocation
Process Direction
Empathic Affirmation
Systematic Evocative Unfolding
Unfinished Business
Self-Criticism
Self-Interruption
Personal vs Process Disclosure
Scene Setting
Role Reversal
Doubling
The Mirror Position
Concretization

This is a group — a learning group. Topics of the day will come from both the facilitator and the group itself. The group will move towards, and respond to, the immediate learning needs of the membership, as they are challenged in their day-to-day work as clinicians.

Join together with other learners to improve your helpfulness, your confidence, and your understanding of this remarkable psychotherapy tradition.

What: A Training & Consultation Group

Who: Up to 8 clinicians who want to deepen their practice of experiential therapy.

When: Every other Friday, from 10am to 12pm.

Where:
GETME
615 Congress Street
Suite 423
Portland, ME, 04101

Facilitator: Tom Kubasik, LCPC

Cost: $45/meeting. (Members sign up for blocks of 8 meetings)

Contact Hours: At the end of each block of meetings, certificates of completion will be issued. This will include one contact hour of training and one contact hour of supervision/consultation for each meeting attended.

Dates:

Winter 2026 (8 Meetings)