Become a Master Therapist. This comprehensive training program can help you do that. It provides a clear framework and a powerful set of experiential tools for individual, group, couples, and family therapy. It is conducted by Vann S. Joines, Ph.D. and Jessica D’Andrea, Psy.D. and is based on 50 years of experience in training and supervising psychotherapists in becoming master clinicians. It will provide you the opportunity to grow both personally and professionally as you work experientially with the faculty and with your peers as both therapist and client under direct supervision of the faculty in a nurturing and supportive atmosphere. 

You will learn a developmental model of how individuals grow and develop and how trauma adversely affects that development and how it can be corrected so that we can choose the kind of life and relationships we want for ourselves in the present.

Information from Transactional Analysis, Gestalt Therapy, Redecision Therapy, Relational Therapy, Developmental Theory, Attachment Theory, Neuropsychology, Personality Focused Treatment (PFT)®, Family Systems Therapy, Psychomotor Therapy, and Trauma Resolution Energy Therapy (TRET)® will be taught and demonstrated by the faculty.

Topics

September: The Initial Interview, Contracting
October: Redecision Therapy, Structural Analysis
November: Personality Focused Treatment (PFT)®, TA Proper
December: Working from a Developmental Framework, Psychological Hungers
January: Gestalt Therapy, Redefining and Frames of Reference

Learning Objectives

• Demonstrate contracting
• Describe the redecision process
• Explain Personality Focused Treatment
• Describe a Therapeutic Impasse
• Draw out the three types of transactions
• Describe the main focus in Gestalt therapy
• List the different levels of passive behavior
• State the main focus in Relational Therapy
• Explain what a "Therapeutic Alliance" is
• Describe "Empathic Mirroring"

Faculty: Vann Joines, Ph.D. & Jessica D'Andrea, Psy.D.

Dates: Sept. 15-16, Oct. 20-21, Nov. 10-11, Dec. 15-16, 2023 Jan. 12-13, 2024

Times: Fridays 9 AM – 5 PM; Saturdays 9 AM – 4:30 PM

Tuition: $1950 per semester ($450 deposit; balance payable $375 per month for 4 months)

Level: Beginner & Intermediate & Advanced

CE Credit (APA):60 for each semester, given as 12 per weekend; Cost: Included in tuition
Contact Hours (NBCC):  60 for each semester, given as 12 per weekend; Cost: Included in tuition

Schedule

Friday (Day One)
9 - 10:30 AM Case Discussion and Application
10:30 - 10:45 AM Break
10:45 AM - 12 PM Lecture (TA theory topic)
12 - 1:30 PM Lunch
1:30 - 2 PM Discussion of article(s)
2 - 3 PM Lecture
3 - 3:15 PM Break
3:15 - 5 PM Group work: Practice of redecision therapy with video playback supervision

Saturday (Day Two)
9 - 10:30 AM Case Discussion and Application
10:15 - 10:30 AM Break
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM Saturday Webinar (Lecture on psychotherapy training topic for that weekend)
12:30 - 2 PM Lunch
2 - 3:30 PM Group Activity
3:30 - 3:45 PM Break
3:45 - 5 PM Group work