Do you get tired of working in isolation?

This Consultation Group is a safe place to:

• Get the support and stimulation of discussing the challenges and joys of running groups issues with colleagues
• Deepen your group work and increase your enjoyment

Description

This facilitated consultation group is designed for therapists who want to improve their leadership skills, help their groups feel more rewarding, and deepen their understanding of the group process. This case consultation group combines member's case presentations, informal didactic presentations and discussion.

Presentations include techniques for avoiding premature terminations, strategies for understanding and helping the group grow with challenges, helping groups manage conflict and competition effectively, the importance of family of origin issues, and the impact of medical issues if any. The quality and meaning of transference is explored, while acknowledging the informative value of countertransference.

C. E. Units

C.E. Units available for MFTs and LCSW in the state of California. BBS Continuing Education Provider #PCE 4462. Units for psychologists pending.

About the Group Leader

Ann Steiner, Ph.D., M.F.T., CGP. , Certified Group Psychotherapist, has been leading psychotherapy groups for 28 years, supervises, trains and consults to therapists. She is a licensed marriage family therapist in private practice in the San Francisco Bay Area, in Northern California.  She is a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Society, was president of Northern California Group Psychotherapy Society, a founding member of the American Orthopsychiatric Association's Disability Study Group and the National Registry of Group Psychotherapists. She co-led the first therapy group for therapists in Northern California in the 1980's.

Dr. Steiner served for 14 years as an Associate Clinical Professor, Department of Psychiatry, University of California Medical School, San Francisco, and Faculty member, Psychotherapy Institute's Group Therapy Training Program. She lectures at professional meetings nationally and locally, and writes for consumers and therapists.

See Healing Power of Groups article for more information.

For Further Information

For more information or to discuss whether this group might fit your particular needs, please free to call Dr. Steiner at (925) 962-0060 and leave a message with your phone number, and a variety of times when it would be convenient for Dr. Steiner to return your call.