Gestalt Therapy Training
with Betty Cannon, Ph.D.
November 2008 to May 2009
Gestalt Therapy has long been recognized has a powerful and effective technique for dealing with body, mind and spirit in an interpersonal context of increasing awareness and contact. It works with nonverbal as well as verbal cues and emphasizes process over content. Clients often find that insight follows experience and that significant movement can be made in changing old patterns that are no longer useful.
Where: 1140 Lehigh Street, Boulder, Colorado, 80305
Date: Tuesday Afternoons, twice a month, November 2008 to May 2009
Time: 4:00 to 8:15 (first fifteen minutes gathering and social time)
Eligibility: Mental Health Professionals and Psychology Graduate Students (Exceptions may be made
on an individual basis following an interview.)
Cost: $20 an hour or $80 per four-hour session (All sessions are videotaped. You are responsible for missed sessions, which may be viewed on DVD.)
The Workshop Leader: Betty Cannon is a licensed psychologist and certified Gestalt therapist who has worked with individuals, couples and groups in Boulder for thirty years. She holds doctorates in both literature and psychology. She is the author of numerous journal articles, book chapters, and an internationally recognized book on existentialist therapy, Sartre and Psychoanalysis: An Existentialist Challenge to Clinical Metatheory (University Press of Kansas, 1991; French translation, Presses Universitaires de France, 1993). She is a member of the editorial boards of three professional journals, Sartre Studies International, The (British) Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis, and The Review of Existential Psychology and Psychiatry, and an internationally known lecturer and workshop presenter. She is a senior adjunct faculty member in the Transpersonal Counseling Psychology Master’s Program at Naropa University, an adjunct faculty member at Regis University, an Emerita Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Colorado School of Mines, and president, co-founder and co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute. She is an executive committee member and former president of the Colorado Group Psychotherapy Society, which is a branch of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, and a former chair of the North American Sartre Society. Her work combines Gestalt, existential, psychodynamic and body oriented approaches with a special emphasis on interpersonal work and group therapy. She offers individual and group psychotherapy as well as individual and group supervision for mental health professionals.s a licensed psychologist and certified Gestalt Therapist who has worked with individuals, couples and groups in Boulder for over 25 years. She is president and co-director of the Boulder Psychotherapy Institute. She is the author of an internationally recognized book on existential therapy, Sartre and Psychoanalysis, and numerous journal articles and book chapters on psychotherapy. Her work combines Gestalt, existential, psychodynamic and body oriented approaches. She offers individual and group supervision for mental health professionals.
To register, call us at 303-494-0393 or e-mail us at BPI.training@boulderpsych.com. A $40 deposit holds your place in the training.