Transformational Arts College
where body, mind & spirit unite

Our new, official name is Transformational Arts College of Spiritual and Holistic Training.  Our new website will be launched in the Fall reflecting our new name.

Spiritual Psychotherapy Training Program
Psychotherapy and Counselling Skills for Individuals and Groups

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