Announcements
Handbook of Child and Adolescent Group Therapy: A Practitioner’s Reference
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Posttraumatic Play in Children:
What Clinicians Need to Know
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Group for Caregivers of Children who Have a History of Trauma
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Services
REGIONAL CONFERENCE CO-SPONSORED BY STARBRIGHT TRAINING AND GIL INSTITUTE
SAVE THE DATE: JUNE 9-11, 2017
5TH ANNUAL MID-ATLANTIC PLAY THERAPY TRAINING INSTITUTE
Unique Aspects of Our Approach
One of the distinguishing features of our clinical private practice is our willingness to be truly integrative of evidence-based approaches as well as promising trends that maximize our potential to be helpful to our clients.
Integrative
To be truly integrative is challenging in that clinicians require ongoing exposure to continuing education in the literature, workshops, conferences, and specialized trainings. You will see that commitment reflected in the brief biographical information related to our therapists, as well as the incorporation of programs such as Theraplay, Circle of Security Parenting Groups, and HEARTS.
Expressive
Gil Institute advocates for developmentally-appropriate services to young children, youth, and adults and utilize the expressive therapies (art, play, sand) to provide alternate forms of communication and expression.
Therapy
Our therapists highly value opportunities for clients to reflect on their work and to achieve shifts in perception which are well facilitated through the expressive arts within an anchored therapy relationship.
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Expressive therapies invite, allow, and
encourage externalizing of concerns through images and symbols, which can then be explored, felt, given voice, and eventually integrated. Through this process, traumatic memories can be acknowledged, managed in more adaptive ways, and transformed.
The end result is that pain subsides, control is restored, and hope is activated
for the future.”