Clinical Consultation Group in San Francisco
Clinical Consultation Group in San Francisco
Darcie Spence, MA, JD
Psychotherapy, Consultation & Coaching in San Francisco ☎ 415-820-3250
Integrating Psychoanalytic, Somatic
and Relational Approaches to Psychotherapy
This biweekly consultation group is open to licensed therapists and registered interns. The group is designed to support clinicians in developing and clarifying their therapeutic identity, increasing their clinical skills and competencies, and fostering growth and development
in their practices.
The group will include case presentations and related readings, as well as general discussion of issues related to the practice of psychotherapy, professional identity or group dynamics. By participating in the group, clinicians will gain experience consulting and collaborating with other professionals in a supportive learning environment.
© 2011-2012 Darcie Spence, MA, JD, Psychotherapy, Consultation & Coaching in San Francisco ☎ 415-820-3250
Group meets every other Monday from
10:45 a.m. -12:15 p.m.
in San Francisco
(2506 Clay Street @ Fillmore)
Fee is $45 per session.
For further information,
please call Darcie
at 415-820-3250
or e-mail her at darciespence@me.com.

(with a concentration in somatics) from the California Institute of Integral Studies in 2000. Since that time, she has been involved in ongoing training and consultation in both somatic and contemporary psychoanalytic approaches to psychotherapy. Her practice includes individual psychotherapy with adults and teens, group therapy and clinical consultation and supervision for interns, trainees and licensed therapists. She currently serves as a Clinical Supervisor at the California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) for the Somatic Psychology Program and the Integral Counseling Program. For more information,
please call Darcie at 415-820-3250 or e-mail her at darciespence@me.com.
California Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist (MFC40060).
Specific focus areas for the group will include:
•Working in the transference - Enhancing the use of self in the therapeutic encounter;
•Winnicott’s view of early childhood development;
•How preverbal issues manifest in psychotherapy and how to work effectively with this phase of development;
•Working with negative transference and difficult countertransference states;
•Understanding the mind-body connection: the relationship between emotional health and physical well-being;
•How to incorporate the somatic realm of experience within a psychoanalytic/psychodynamic framework;
•Working with psychosomatic issues to access unconscious material;
•Working therapeutically with fees and session frequency; and
•Clarifying how you work and why it would be of benefit to potential clients, to assist in marketing efforts and practice building.
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