Student Profile

Therapists who have completed training in Gestalt therapy and who currently work with couples or have a keen interest and intention to do so.

Non-Gestalt trained therapists who have a minimum of 3 years experience working with couples. These students will complete a weekend bridging course providing an overview of Gestalt therapy concepts.

 

Illawarra Gestalt Centre

Application forms are available on this web site

Counselling, Psychotherapy and Community Voice

This is a two year diploma program presented in a multimedia distant educational mode, involving weekend workshops and phone/web based support, which is integrated with supervision and clinical discussion.

The program is tailored to develop extensive skills in Gestalt Couples Therapy, allied with recent developments in Family Law in Australia, and providing a comparative synthesis between Gestalt Therapy and systemic approaches to Couples and Family Therapy.

The course is for experienced therapists working with couples or for Gestalt therapists with an interest and intention to work with couples.  This work  with couples integrates with supervision and clinical discussion components of the program .

A bridging weekend will be provided for therapists who are not familiar with Gestalt therapy and this will  include student notes and relevant articles.

Overview—Diploma Course 2008

· Guest International faculty

· Multimedia distance education format

· Theory skill and practice components

· Opportunity for live couples work

· Components for  assessment, ethics and evaluation of outcomes/research

· Comparative and developmental perspectives

· Student notes and readings provided

Price: $3000 per year  plus GST           Deposit $500

Year 1.      2008

Overview of Couples Therapy models

Phenomenolgical method with couples

Dialogical principle within and between the couple

Applying Field theory in a couples system

Methodology and experimentation for the couple

Understanding Family Law and Separation

Year 2.     2009

Cultural aspects of couples work (International Faculty)

Working with Trauma and PTSD

The sensual aspects of the couple

Working with Gay and Lesbian couples

Working with Shame (International Faculty )

Spirituality Aspects of Couples work

 

Outline of Program

For further information contact Jenny

Phone:02 4228 0132 or 0409 280247

Email:jenadelaide@bigpond.com or boneill@uow.edu.au  

Intake for 2008 available now.

Two Day Workshop – 1^st and 2^nd December 2007

 

This workshop will outline the theory skill and practice of working with couples from a Gestalt therapy approach and demonstrate how models of field theory and shame can be applied in Couples therapy using simple practical methods.

In Couples work there two “realities” at play - the reality of the two separate people and the more subtle reality of the “self of the couple”.  Understanding another reality is in operation, and being aware of how to see and language this reality, means we can work with the couple in a field sensitive way. The therapist works as part of a field that is a “testing lab” to experiment with shame/blame and connection/belonging in the therapeutic system and explore this with the couple.

This workshop will provide skills in couples therapy and give an introduction to the Diploma program.

Presenter:

Brian O’Neill is co-director of the Illawarra Gestalt Centre. He is past President of the Association for Advancement of Gestalt Therapy, founding editor Gestalt Therapy Forum (New York), a board member of Gestalt Global. He is on the editorial board of the Gestalt Review and has recently joined the board of the new Studies in Gestalt (New York Institute of Gestalt Therapy). He is a registered psychologist, a Senior Fellow in Mental Health (University of Wollongong), and a member of the College of Counselling Psychologists (APS). He has worked in Drug and Alcohol Field, Mental Health and HIV/AIDS and most recently as Deputy State Director with Department of Veterans Affairs working with couples in the context of war and PTSD.  He has published on Gestalt Couples therapy supervision and training, and recently completed a chapter on Gestalt Couples therapy with his wife Jenny, entitled  “The Secret Life of Us”, for an upcoming book on Gestalt Couples Therapy.

 

 

 

Workshop Outline:

 

 

Cost:  $280 (GST included)    Venue: Illawarra Gestalt Centre, Wollongong

Deposit: $80                          Dates:    1^st & 2^nd September 2007   9:30am to 4.30pm

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