Conversations with Clinicians

Life and Practice Through a Gestalt Lens

Free live-online series

The Gestalt International Study Center’s (GISC) approach to clinical practice embraces traditional Gestalt theory while amplifying it with our unique approach, known as the Cape Cod Model. This free series will provide a deeper understanding of concepts such as contact, paradoxical theory of change, polarities, engaging resistance, and self-regulation as ways of engaging clients for growth and development. Clinicians working with individuals, couples, and families will have the opportunity to learn experientially and didactically in the series.

These sessions are free but you must register in advance. Each session meets from 12:00PM-1:00PM Eastern.

Session 6: What Happened to You?

Friday, June 6, 2025 with Carol Brockmon, MSW, and Pamela Freeman, MSW, LCSW

Additional sessions to be announced.

Throughout this series you will:

Raise awareness of key Gestalt concepts and their clinical applications.
Cultivate an ability to see how to apply these concepts in practice with a client or client system.
Develop an understanding of how these concepts contribute to the Cape Cod Model.

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Participants

While this free series is designed for clinicians practicing psychotherapy or those studying to be clinicians, all members of the GISC community are welcome to attend.

Continuing Education

NASW-MA: This program has been approved for 1 Social Work Continuing Education hour for relicensure, in accordance with 258 CMR. NASW-MA Chapter CE Approval Program Authorization Number D93094.

MaMHCA: This program has been approved by MaMHCA/MCEAP as a Continuing Education Activity for LMHCs for 1 Category 1 hours.

Session 6: What Happened to You?

Faculty: Carol Brockmon, MSW, and Pamela Freeman, MSW, LCSW

Date: Friday, June 6, 2025

Our clients and client systems are affected by trauma that exists at every level of system. There are trauma-inducing power structures, work situations, race and class issues and oppressions, gaps in opportunity, and intersectionalities, subjecting some groups and individuals to multiple forms of trauma-creating abuse. Everything that affects our psychological wellbeing can have social, political, and cultural causes as well as connections to family history and interpersonal experience. For therapy to be effective, we believe taking a person's or system's whole context into account is important, and that awareness in the therapist is crucial -- awareness of and openness to learning about all of the forces at work in your client/system. Let us help you use your concern and curiosity to learn what your client's key struggles are, to be knowledgeable about context and oppression, and to integrate that with your psychological and emotional understanding of the dynamics you are encountering.

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