was established by Diane Montgomery-Logan, MA, CGP, to expand the opportunity for group training in Vermont. The Center offers clinical services and group training in psychodynamic, relational group therapy.
in private practice in the Burlington area since 1988. She is nationally registered as a Certified Group Psychotherapist (CGP). Diane is a graduate of the National Group Psychotherapy Institute of the Washington School of Psychiatry and has been a member of the faculty of the American Group Psychotherapy Association annual conference in 2008. Case consultation with Diane Montgomery-Logan qualifies toward CGP certification by the National Registry of Group Psychotherapists.
from experiential, theoretical, and practical perspectives what is involved in leading a psychotherapy group. In the ongoing process group, members will have the chance to experience both the potential growth and sense of community that come from deep engagement with other members, as well as the various internal and external forces that pull the individual and the group back from growth. Members will have exposure to the many layers of conscious and unconscious group dynamics, from the "here and now" perspective of group membership and from group discussions of theory.
on which to build understanding
of group process. This training is appropriate for clinicians and students
wanting to add group therapy to their clinical skills, as well as those
already running groups but seeking to broaden their practical skills and
reinforce the theoretical foundations for their work. For those running
groups themselves, the monthly case supervision group will offer further
opportunity to build group therapy skills.
Participants must be licensed clinicians or clinicians or graduate students working toward licensure. Membership in the process group is limited to 8. The Case Consultation group is limited to 10 members.
that a multi-year training will yield, this program has been conceptualized as continuing beyond May, 2008.
Some may want to
continue into subsequent years; others may feel complete after one.
The training has been structured in the framework of Relational Psychotherapy. From the relational perspective, growth and healing take place in the context of the many levels of relationship forming and re-forming in the group. The group culture is seen as the composite of the individual subjective experiences of everyone in the room, group members and leader, alike. Leadership is compassionate, non-hierarchical and non-judgmental - focused on supporting a depth of authenticity that encourages members to travel into their forbidden, alien places to reclaim the disowned parts of themselves.
Over the course of the training program we will cover multiple facets of therapy group leadership, including:
- Ethical Decision Making
- Boundaries of the Therapist and Members
- Screening for Group Membership
- Client Preparation for Group
- Group Contracts for Membership
- Group-as-a-Whole Dynamics
- Sub-Grouping
- Therapeutic Factors of Group Therapy
- Factors in Group Cohesion
- Phases of Group Development
- Replication of Family-of-Origin Roles
- Resistance
- Leadership Challenges and Mistakes
- Termination
This group offers the opportunity to experience group therapy from the inside, with both an experiential process component and a theoretical application components.
The first two hours will be spent in experiential group process. After a 15 minute break, there will be a 45 minute discussion to examine the morning's group from a theoretical perspective.
is available for clinicians and students who are starting or running ongoing groups. The schedule for the consultation group will be set once the group is formed.
Case consultation with Diane Montgomery-Logan qualifies toward CGP certification
by the National
Registry of Group Psychotherapists.
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Some photographs depict simulated therapy sessions.
Participants are not actual clients.
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