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Group Therapy Training

GTX is six modules of online group therapy training, each built around a specific clinical challenge.

Every lesson is video-based, self-paced, and designed to be immediately applicable.

Module 1 — What Is a Process Group?

Before you can facilitate well, you need a clear map of what you're actually doing. Module 1 covers the full spectrum from social groups to interpersonal process groups, the four roles the group therapist plays simultaneously, and the foundational distinction between content and process.

Module 2 — The Five Skills You Need to Run A Group

This is the core of the course. Five specific facilitation skills, each taught in its own lesson:

  • The Group Agreement. 
  • Bridging.
  • Progressive Emotional Communication. 
  • Countertransference.
  • Object-Oriented Questions. .

Module 3 — Immediacy: The Here-and-Now 

Yalom talks about the here-and-now constantly. Most therapists leave training knowing the concept and having no idea how to actually do it.

Module 4 — Working With Anger in Group

Anger is the most misunderstood dynamic in group therapy. Most new therapists try to contain it, neutralize it, or apologize for the member who expressed it. All three responses make things worse.

Module 5 — Problem Members

The most-searched topic in group therapy training, by a significant margin. This module covers the specific member archetypes that trip new facilitators up most:

Module 6 — Group Resistances

Module 6 moves from individual member dynamics to the group-as-a-whole. When the whole group colludes to stay on the surface, the polite stuck group where everyone is technically participating and nothing is happening, that's a group resistance. 

Managing Difficult Group Members?

I'll guide you through how to think about them and help you figure out what to do.

Process vs. Content & What To Do?

There's five skills to help you bring the group into process and helping them stay out of content 

Doing All The Work In Group?

A process group doesn't need a topi or activity- learn how to get the group talking without you

The Group Therapy Imposter Syndrome?

The techniques and skills I cover are all aimed at helping you feel confident and effective in groups

GTX: Group Therapy Training

  1. Wait, What Is A 'Process' Group Really?

    1 lesson
    1. What Is A Process Group... and What Do You Do In One?

  2. The Top 5 Skills You Need For A Process Group

    5 lessons
    1. The Group Agreement
    2. Bridging - The Core Skills For Connecting
    3. Emotional Communication
    4. Your Secret Weapon
    5. The Contact Function: The Right Type Of Questions

  3. Immediacy: How To Use The 'Here-And-Now'

    2 lessons
    1. What The Here and Now Really Means
    2. Five Ways To Do That Here and Now Thing

  4. Learning To Love Anger In Group Therapy:

    6 lessons
    1. How To Think About Anger In Group
    2. Working With Anger

    1. 4 Types Of Angry Group Members

      1. The Attacker
      2. The Self Attacker
      3. The Help-Rejecting Complainer
      4. The Therapist Attacker

  5. Working With Group Resistances

    3 lessons
    1. What Are Group Resistances
    2. What To Do With Group Resistances
    3. Group Infanticide

Group Therapy YouTube

 

I started a youtube channel a few years ago to provide supplemental information for the group process classes I teach, and I'm still surprised with all the feedback these videos get. 

You can get a sense of how I explain group therapy concepts by taking a look at my youtube channel and some of the videos I have there. 

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