Supervision Group:

Supervision

Supervision groups are offered for mental health professionals who have some background in Family Therapy. The groups are oriented toward strengthening your competency in Strategic Experiential Family therapy conceptualizations and interventions, and will address the 5 stages of SEFT. The supervision group will help therapists to utilize structural, strategic as well as emotive techniques to create awareness between the mind and emotions. Dr. Cabouli will teach you how to be creative by utilizing critical strategic thinking during therapy to help clients achieve personal integrity, greater freedom of choice, less dependence, be more in touch with their own needs, and learn how to share and communicate more openly with their family unit. Supervisees will be going hands on and actually experiencing the process while participating in the group.

Dr. Cabouli will also provide supervisees with tools to address a multicultural and or bi-cultural therapy setting. ACTIVE participation required at each group meeting, participants will learn how to wake the sleeping emotional system and dismantle the mental guards. One of the goal is to help each participants learn how to face their inhibitions and open the lines of communication by facing conflict rather than avoiding it, without the fear of getting hurt or hurting the other person. This model maintains to be a result oriented model, in order for the therapist to achieve these results they must go through a process with the client.

Objectives for Supervision Groups

1. Case Conceptualization: To improve competency in conceptualizing family dynamics, clinical conditions, personality disorders, and therapeutic processes (e.g. transference) from a systemic perspective.

2. Strategic Experiential Therapy Skills: To improve SEFT strategies, techniques, and experiential tools including:

A. Provocative questions, enactments, pushing, confrontation interpretations, lowering reactivity, debalancing selective alliances, gestalt exercises, and de-triangling.
B. The role modeling technqiue
C. The validating technique
D. The broker technique
E. Imaginary guidance
E. Experiential exercises for couples
F. Selective Alliance Strategy 
G. Empowering Strategy
H. Failure Strategy II
I. Commitment Strategy
J. Hate vs Attention Strategy 
K. If You Hate Me Just Change Strategy

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