EGPS Training Program in Group Psychotherapy
Deep, practical, experiential learning about group leadership.
Graduates from 2019-20, Michelle Wan Lok Chan and Laura Captari, express through spoken word and dance what their Training Program Group Experience meant to them.
Having gone through the EGPS Training Program, it not only provides me a body of knowledge and tools in my work, but the experience also has given me a sense of community and belonging, a psychoanalytic home.
– Supavadee Thaveesaengsiri
The EGPS Training Program received an award for educational and training excellence from The National Registry of Certified Group Psychotherapists. In our 32 years of training in the New York metropolitan area, we have provided training for approximately 450 mental health professionals who have gone on to apply for certification as group psychotherapists. You can be one of them.
WHO CAN BENEFIT?
- Anyone in an agency, hospital, mental health, or college counseling center who is expected to run groups but has little or no formal training in group work.
- Anyone in private practice or other organizational settings who wants to expand their expertise to conducting groups.
- Anyone wishing to learn the psychodynamic theory and practice of group psychotherapy which provide the foundation for leading varied specialized, short, or long-term groups.
THE PROGRAM
At a time of increasing need for relationships and community, Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society offers a Training Program in Group Psychotherapy that is designed to accommodate therapists and group leaders in clinics, agencies, and private practice. The program consists of three weekly components: Group Consultation, Didactic Instruction, and Experiential Group. The Training Program begins with the basics and is designed for those with little or no group training and addresses racial and social justice issues in group work of all kinds.
As a trainee, you will receive didactic instruction as well as guidance and consultation on how to begin and facilitate their own groups. You will also participate in an “Experiential” process group to have the in-vivo experience of being a group member in a process group.
The program meets weekly from mid-September through mid-June, divided into ten-week trimesters, on Zoom. The Didactic and Experiential Group Components meet on Wednesdays from 7:15 – 10:00 PM ET. The dates and times for the Consultation Group component of the program will be determined.
The faculty is composed of senior members of the Eastern Group Psychotherapy Society and the American Group Psychotherapy Association. A certificate is awarded upon completion of the program. The Training Program, with an option for additional consultation, is designed so that qualified applicants can use the educational and supervisory components toward inclusion in the International Board of Certification for Group Psychotherapy. Faculty members and administration meet annually with an expert in intersectionality and are encouraged to engage in ongoing racial literacy and anti-oppression training.
ADMISSIONS
Rolling Admissions until August 1st: Submit your application to be considered for the upcoming September – June class!
Tuition: $1967 per trimester. It is payable at the beginning of each trimester. Individual courses and trimesters in the Program may not be taken separately. There is a $50 non-refundable application fee.
Our tuition model reinforces the idea that everyone who participates in the training program agrees to be working together toward a goal of anti-racist/anti-oppressive action and collective liberation. Our responsibility for the integrity of the program and for maintaining our alignment with its mission and vision supports a tuition model consistent with a commitment to reparations for Black and Indigenous people. Racial equity is woven into both the educational content and into the financial model.
Need based partial scholarships are available through the Dustin Nichols Fund
A Reparations Rate (50%) is available for Indigenous applicants and applicants of the African diaspora to enhance educational opportunities that have been historically denied.
For more information about the program and tuition, contact Erin Dogan or Claire Julian.
The EGPS Training Program approaches group therapy from a whole range of theoretical perspectives. There’s not ‘just one way’ to run groups.
– a former trainee
*FREE 2 YEARS OF EGPS MEMBERSHIP FOR ALL TRAINEES OF THE TRAINING PROGRAM*
Faculty
| Claudia Arlo, LCSW, CGP, CASAC
Adi Avivi, PsyD, CGP Simon Bresler, LCSW, CGP Carlos Canales CGP, FAGPA, SEP Bonnie Cushing, LCSW Robin Dean, PsyD, MSed Chris Dolin, LCSW-R Adam Frankel, Ph.D, CGP April Harvin, LCSW, MSW Joseph Hovey, LCSW, CGP |
Kathleen Isaac, PhD, CGP
Mineko Anne Legendy, PhD Ronnie Levine, PhD, CGP, ABPP, AGPA-F Tabethah Mack, PhD, CGP Juan Olmedo, LCSW, CGP Aziza Belcher Platt, PhD, MSEd Tamara Turner, LCSW Judith White, LCSW (Advanced Training Sequel) Joan Wittig, MS, BC-DMT, LCAT |
For more information about the program, please contact a Co-Dean of Admissions highlighted below:
| Virginia Seewaldt, PhD
Joan Wittig, BC-DMT |
Co-Directors | (212) 769-2251 |
| Ed Elder, M.Div, LMHC, LMFT | Dean of Faculty | |
| Charles Zeng, LMFT, LPCC, CGP, MA | Dean of Curriculum | |
| Claire Julian, BA | Co-Deans of Admissions | |
| Lisette Soini, LCSW, LCAT | Dean of Trainees | |
| Latoyia Griffin, LCSW, CGP, AGPA-F | Racial Dynamics Consultant |
