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About the Presenters
Facilitators – Charlie Bowman
Charlie Bowman holds a graduate degree in Clinical Psychology from Purdue University. He has taught at Indiana University and has been a member of the Purdue University School of Science Curriculum Advisory Board.
He is a Board Member and Past President of the Association for the Advancement of Gestalt Therapy and a Conference Board Member of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. He has taught and mentored psychotherapists and counselors in the U.S., Canada, Australia and Europe. He has written articles on the psychotherapy process, the treatment of trauma, and most recently a chapter on the history of psychotherapy for a college text.
Charlie started his career with Verizon in 1988 as a consultant and was hired as an EAP Counselor in 1989 and currently manages the Verizon EAP program. Since then he has dedicated his professional life to developing, implementing and maintaining quality programs that assist our Verizon family in growing with change, coping with life and health problems and becoming the best person and Verizon employee they can be.
About the Program
In Gestalt therapy, dialogue becomes the basis of everything - awareness, contact and change. Any "technique" can fall within the purview of Gestalt therapy so long as it brings the boundary of the therapist into contact with the boundary of the client. For the EAP Counselor, any technique that brings counselor and client together in this manner will facilitate a more rapid understanding of the presenting problems from the client's perspective. This, in turn, results in the counselor appreciating the resources that are already available to the client in addition to those the counselor brings to the dialogue. We will discuss Gestalt approaches to grounding and structuring the interview, recognizing supports in the client's environment and maintaining the EAP relationship through the assessment process and follow-up.
Participants will have a chance to ask questions.
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