Licensed Clinical Psychologist
License # PSY 8161
138 N. Brand #300
Glendale, CA 91203
(818) 243-0839
The training component of my practice involves multiple programs. I offer individual and group supervision to post licensed mental health professionals. Through Professional Development programs I present workshops, coordinate conferences and consult with small groups and mental health agencies on training.
THE THERAPIST’S JOURNEY: DEEPENING PERSONAL UNDERSTANDING, IMPROVING THERAPEUTIC EFFECTIVENESS
October 2, 2010
CLINICAL SUPERVISION: A CONTEMPORARY PSYCHOANALYTIC PERSPECTIVE
October 23, 2010
These workshops have been approved for 6 hours of continuing education by the BBS and MCEPAA and meets requirements for supervisors.
I offer individual and group supervision as well as supervision workshops that meet the BBS and MCEPAA requirements for clinical supervisors.
Supervision Philosophy
The task of becoming a therapist is to become the therapist you are a capable of being. This involves learning to have the courage to be yourself, developing the ability to listen to and trust one’s instincts, to take risks, to learn from one’s mistakes, to know one’s strengths, and perhaps most importantly, to have compassion for one’s weaknesses. Joceylyn Chaplin, an English therapist, has described it simply as a “process of initiation into being oneself. The task of supervision is to facilitate rather than interfere with this process.
While I draw from a range of different theoretical perspectives, contemporary psychoanalytic thinking informs my approach. In supervision my goal is to help clinicians utilize and integrate their personal experience of being with clients into effective treatment interventions. I work with clinicians to deepen their clinical understanding and to develop their unique therapeutic voice.
What we do in therapy and supervision is influenced by “our unconscious organizing principles,” to borrow a concept from Stolorow. These unconscious organizing principles are embedded in our history, in our perceptions of the world, and the interactions we have with others. The beauty of psychoanalysis is that it creates space for recognizing and exploring the unknown.
I lead regularly scheduled CONSULTATION GROUPS on an ongoing basis with limited availability, so please check for updates.
I work with mental health agencies and small groups to provide continuing education programs tailored to their specific needs while fulfilling the requirements for continuing education. I also work with individual therapists who are interested in developing workshops.
Consultation Projects:
Post-ICP reading groups:
Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Center:
Jim De Santis Ph.D.