WEST COAST:
Most Patient Programs are held in Santa Barbara, CA, at the beautiful La Casa de Maria Retreat and Conference Center. The upcoming schedule is:
Mar 14–19, 2010
May 2–7, 2010
Jun 13–18, 2010
Aug 8–13, 2010
Sep 26–Oct 1, 2010
Nov 28–Dec 3, 2010
EAST COAST:
Plans are being explored to offer an east coast Patient Program soon.
All sessions are small and private, insuring highly personal attention. Click here to learn more. |
 The Simonton Cancer Center offers an internationally acclaimed training program in cancer counseling based on the unique approach developed by Dr. O. Carl Simonton. This innovative training program offers an in-depth, personal, hands-on experience in counseling patients with cancer, conducting patient sessions as well as effectively resolving crises encountered by patients and their support persons.
The Simonton Cancer Center is the only international organization using the agreed upon international counseling standards for cancer patients. The Simonton Cancer Center is also the only international certifying body for the certification of counselors for cancer patients.
The Simonton Method in its current, most evolved form, may be described as a comprehensive cognitive-behavioral self-help therapy for patients with cancer and their support persons. This approach is comprehensive because it directly addresses all spheres of human existence: emotional, cognitive, behavioral, social and spiritual integrated in an internally consistent program. The therapeutic interventions are based on modern learning theory as well as ancient teachings. These include individual, group, family and social counseling as well as education in self-help skills that patients and their support persons may use to effectively resolve problems in all areas of their lives. The training experience is very enriching for therapists of different orientations and can easily be applied in counseling of any group of people facing problems of life threatening proportions.
This training program is currently offered in Santa Barbara (California), Germany and Poland. It is organized around five-day residential patient sessions under the leadership of certified teaching and supervising therapists.
- I - Counseling Therapist Level - requiring successful completion of three patient sessions. During the second and third sessions the trainee is responsible for 1 and 2 patients respectively under supervision.
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II - Supervising Therapist Level - for those who are already certified as counseling therapists with the additional requirement of successful completion of three patient sessions as a supervisor.
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III - Teaching Therapist Level - for those who are already certified as supervising therapists with the additional requirement of successful completion of two patient sessions as a teaching therapist.
Training and supervision $2,750
Meals & lodging $500
Total: $3,250 (Deposit at sign up $600.00, balance due at check)
Simonton Cancer Center also offers introductory weekend seminars worldwide |
