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.

Upcoming Sessions:

A Gestalt Approach to Working with Couples - March 6
Self-Regulation for Client and Therapist: Coping in a Chaotic World - April 3
Power & Intimacy - May 1
Staying in the Saddle: Maintaining Presence with Clients When the Ride Gets Rough - June 5

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.

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

A Gestalt Approach to Working With Couples

Date: Friday, March 6

Faculty: Stuart Simon, LICSW, MCC & Sharona Halpern, MA LMHC

Whether you work with couples, are thinking of working with couples, or are interested in couples therapy, we invite you to attend this session where you will get a taste of the Gestalt Cape Cod Model approach to working with couples as a system. In this live session, we will provide an opportunity for a participant to present a couple they are working with as a supervision case, and follow that with breakout group conversations about what you saw and learned.

Self-Regulation for Client and Therapist: Coping in a Chaotic World

Date: Friday, April 3

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

Join us for a conversation about acknowledging the dangers and anxieties of living in this world right now and building self-regulation strategies for bearability and connection.

Power and Intimacy

Date: Friday, May 1

Faculty: Gaynor Sharp, Bsc Hons & Joseph Melnick, PhD

In this conversation we’ll bring a Gestalt therapy lens on the concepts of intimacy and power within couples. We’ll examine the relational dynamics that occur, and invite you to reflect upon and share your clinical experience.

Staying in the Saddle: Maintaining Presence with Clients When the Ride Gets Rough

Date: Friday, June 5

Faculty: Lucy Ball, BAHons & Renya Larson, MA, LMSW

Our client’s material and behavior in the therapy room can be hard to hold. As therapists, how do we stay in our chair, regulate ourselves and accompany our clients, even when it’s tough? We will explore the Gestalt concept of “Presence” and how to cultivate it under pressure. We will create space for you to share your own strategies, metaphors and wisdom with each other as fellow therapists.

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