Larry Brooks, PHD

CONSULTATION GROUP.  For experienced licensed mental health professionals interested in contemporary psychoanalytic theory.  The goal of this small bi-weekly group (limited to 5) is to provide a place for open, creative discussion of case material with the objectives of deepening one’s therapeutic work, enhancing one’s clinical understanding, refining one’s ability to apply theory to practice, and more effectively using one’s self in the clinical encounter.

CONSULTATION GROUP FOR THERAPISTS STARTING OUT IN PRIVATE PRACTICE. Targeted to clinicians with less than 5 years of post-licensure experience.  This small weekly group (limited to 5) will provide a setting to strengthen clinical skills as well as deal with the personal/professional challenges and “nuts and bolts” of being in private practice.  It will utilize a contemporary psychoanalytic framework to discuss clinical material with objectives of deepening one’s therapeutic work, enhancing one’s clinical understanding, refining one’s application of theory to practice, and more effectively using one’s self in the clinical encounter.

SUPERVISING THE SUPERVISOR.  This ongoing bi-weekly consultation group focuses on the experience of doing supervision. It adapts the consultation case model to look at supervisory case material.  Using a contemporary psychoanalytic framework it will provide a forum for supervisors to discuss their supervisory experiences, present cases, receive feedback on their work, and discuss relevant topics in field of supervision such as the use of the self in therapy and in supervision, the difference between supervision and psychotherapy, and the dynamics of co-transference in the supervisory relationship.

For information on cost and schedule please contact me directly.