Santa Clara University

Process-Experiential Theory and Techniques: Advanced Skills for Clinical Practice

CPSY x279

Description

Therapy often gets off track or stalls when therapists fail to connect with the current experiencing of their clients, and instead engage in conversations that become “intellectual dead ends,” leading nowhere. Contemporary process-experiential theorists, building on the early experiential approach of Rogers, have refined both theory and technique that place the client’s moment-to-moment experiencing at the center of therapeutic action. This workshop offers training in advanced individual therapy skills and techniques drawn from this growing process-experiential tradition. Techniques include experiential assessment techniques and imagery dialogues from Young’s schema therapy, focusing (Gendlin), two-chair, empty-chair, and other specific experience-enhancing interventions developed by Greenberg for responding to a wide variety of client markers including negative self-evaluations, problematic reaction points, conflicted selves, impending decision, intense vulnerability, trauma retelling, and parallel problematic process. Video vignettes and demonstrations are key components of this class, which is designed to both enliven and enhance the efficacy of your clinical work.

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