Join us on Zoom in June and July!

Lana and I often hear from FSM graduates who want additional exploration of the topics introduced in FSM’s Therapeutic Relationships and Communication Skills classes. If you would like to reconnect with those ideas and dive deeper please join us on Zoom during June and July. We will host five free two-hour group sessions, and you may join as many or as few as you like, space allowing.

Topics will include:

• When saying "no" feels difficult (touch, time, finances, and energy)

• Managing energetic and professional boundaries

• "Trauma-informed" choices within LMT scope of practice

• Emotional self-care

• Compassion fatigue and burn-out

• Imposter phenomena

• Repairing ruptures with clients

• Responding to intense client disclosures

• Power dynamics with clients and employers

• Managing transference and counter-transference

• Enhancing components of the therapeutic alliance

• Language choices for empowering clients

• Exploring your professional identity

These groups will be free to participants as we are providing them in partial fulfillment of our counseling degree requirements. These sessions are educational in nature and are not a substitute for personal counseling or psychotherapy. While some topics may touch on emotional or professional challenges, the group is not intended to provide individualized mental health treatment. Sessions will not be recorded. Participants will be asked to maintain confidentiality, though confidentiality cannot be fully guaranteed in a group or online format. Participation is voluntary and subject to space availability. The groups are conducted under supervision in compliance with our graduate program’s ethical and educational guidelines. Additional details are provided in the informed consent form you will complete when you reserve your spot.

Space is limited, please register below. Zoom link will be emailed the day before each meeting.