Year Four
Training and Supervision in Gestalt Therapy

Students in Year Four are trained academically and experientially in the fundamentals of therapy practice and a range of diverse clinical applications of the work including Gestalt applied theory of clinical application of phenomenology, Gestalt approach to change, field theory and embodied relationality is more deeply explored. Students learn a broader range of considerations that are applicable to all psychotherapy including safe and effective use of self and principles pertaining to transference, counter transference and self-disclosure. Students are supported in the principles and practice of therapy under supervision, and receive practical training on how to setup and maintain a practice

Students are approved to see clients under supervision by November of Year Four and obtain liability insurance as well as a supervisor. Membership in the Student Clinic provides clients for new therapists, and students create their own client base as well. The fourth year program also includes clinical group supervision.

All competencies are now applied to the practice of psychotherapy with particular emphasis on:

• Exploration of the impact of personal bias and experience to the therapy relationship
• Applying personal experience and embodied relational approach to safe and effective use of self
• Learning how the phenomenological approach supports therapist work with issues of multiculturalism, diversity and power dynamics
• Learning assessment skills based in aesthetic, relational and knowledge based criteria
• Obtaining clinical supervision and consultation
• Establishing and maintaining an effective therapeutic relationship
• Offering psychotherapy to clients and maintain a professional frame for therapy

Students are expected to complete

• Oral and written assignments
• Professional Practicum
• 166 hours of experiential and didactic learning developing proficiency in professional standards and competencies
• 20 hours of clinical group supervision

Tuition Fee

• $4500 plus residential fee
• Five-Day May Residential fee of $630 includes accommodation and all meals.

*Travel arrangements are the responsibility of the individual

 

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