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This is a group case exchange with emphasis on depth psychology and psychodynamic perspectives. We will offer a series of these stand-alone discussions. Each requires a separate enrollment and will offer additional hours. The days are be numbered to indicate different content. They do not need to be done in sequence.
This program is designed to meet the California Board of Psychology Continuing Professional Development requirement for a second format. This day only counts as Peer Consultation hours. Unlike our other offerings, it is not a sponsored CE class.
We will be engaging in structured and organized live online interaction focused on clinical situations. Attendee questions about their own cases will be given priority. Clinical vignettes from other sources will also be discussed. We will consider parallels between cases and initiatory journey tales from myth, literature, and film.
This is an opportunity to interact with professional colleagues to gain greater understanding of the nuances of treatment. The purpose of this time together is to broaden professional knowledge and expertise, reduce professional isolation, and directly inform the work of the psychotherapist.
Focus is on maintaining, developing, and increasing conceptual and applied competencies that are relevant to clinical practice. These skills include navigating the therapist's own emotional reactions to complicated situations.
The day is not supervision. Content goes beyond the level of exploration and theoretical discussion provided in such earlier mentoring experiences. Focus will include Jungian and archetypal perspectives.
This program would be of interest to psychologists renewing under the CPD model and other psychotherapists wishing to expand their skills.
Note: Participants are encouraged to email a disguised 100-300 word case vignette in advance, but this is not a requirement. Bringing up clinical situations as we go along will also work. Discussion is open to a wide range of theoretical approaches, but Jungian Analytical strategies will be included throughout.
Each day meets 6 hours of the California Board of Psychology Continuing Professional Development option of Peer Consultation. The Continuing Professional Development (CPD) model requires at least two kinds of CPD. Standard CE coursework is capped at 18 hours per cycle. This series provides hours in a second form, also capped at 18 hours. The total required for renewal remains at 36 hours.
This day only counts as Peer Consultation, not standard CE hours.
Specify two techniques to increase client comfort and trust
Describe how family developmental crises can impact individual treatment
Explain unique contributions of Jungian psychology to clinical work
Identify ways treatment can benefit from discussing therapist mistakes
Name two interventions to consider when dealing with depression
Recognize two behaviors that show respect to culturally different clients
This day only counts as Peer Consultation hours. Unlike our other offerings, it is not a sponsored CE class.
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Jonathan Young, PhD is a psychologist (PSY10231). He taught at the Pacifica Graduate Institute from 1982 to 2025. His books and articles focus on personal mythology. Dr.Young assisted mythologist Joseph Campbell at seminars and was founding curator of the Joseph Campbell Archives and Library. He is featured in several documentary series on the History Channel. Dr. Young is the minister of the Live Oak Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Goleta, a suburb of Santa Barbara. Visitors are welcome Sundays at 10am in-person and on Zoom: LiveOakGoleta.org
Anne Bach, MS, MFT 38891 is a specialist in uses of writing in psychotherapy. She gives presentations on creativity as inner work at major conferences, and lectures widely on psychological dimensions of expressive writing. She also appears in memoir drama performances for various theater groups, including the Marsh Stage in Berkeley. Her clinical background includes poetry therapy with seriously mentally ill patients.
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