Transformational Arts College
where body, mind & spirit unite

Spiritual Psychotherapy Training Program
Psychotherapy and Counselling Skills

1a) Theory

Explore the history of psychotherapy reviewing the various forms of therapy — Psychoanalysis, Jungian, Rogerian, Adlerian, Gestalt, Transactional Analysis, Transpersonal and Transformational, Psychosynthesis and more.

  • Core issues
  • Coping mechanisms and defenses
  • Emotions and the grieving process
  • Family systems
  • Stages of the transformational process
  • Human sexuality
  • Developmental psychology
  • Self-esteem
  • Body language
  • Relationships
  • Referring to the DSM-IV
  • Suicide prevention/intervention

    1b) Skills and Techniques
  • Focusing and empathic listening
  • Inquiry - the art of asking questions
  • Accessing the inner child, big and little dialoguing
  • Family-of-origin and original pain work
  • Voice dialoguing and sub-personalities
  • Managing the inner critic
  • Deep emotional healing and cathartic release work
  • Lifestyle changes - diet, exercise, journalling, relaxation techniques and meditation
  • Relationship counselling

    1c) Experiential Psychotherapy
  • Family sculpting
  • Working with defenses, shame, anger, fear and grief
  • Guided imagery, experiential exercises
  • Role playing
  • Group processes

    1d) Group Therapy
  • Group dynamics and roles
  • Group facilitation skills
  • Working stages of a group
  • The art of confrontation

    1e) Professional Skills
  • Client/therapist relations
  • The therapeutic process
  • Transference and counter transference
  • Client/therapist boundaries and boundary violations
  • Ethics
  • Identification and evaluation of core issues
  • Developing a treatment plan for your client
  • Establishing and managing your practice