Happening at the Institute
Ongoing groups, training opportunities, and collaborative work in the Adlerian tradition.
Group Supervision
Bi-weekly Thursday case conceptualization meetings for Adlerian therapists.
Adlerian therapists are welcome to join our bi-weekly Thursday case conceptualization meetings. In each session, a clinician presents a Life Style Questionnaire completed by an anonymous client. Attendees listen to the presentation and comment on possible life style patterns and constructs, including basic feelings of inferiority, a fictional final goal, creative power, and levels of functioning in relation to life tasks. The final 30 minutes of the 90-minute meeting are devoted to treatment intervention ideas.
Bi-weekly on Thursdays • 90 minutes
Adlerian Book Club (ABC)
Bi-weekly Friday discussions for those interested in Alfred Adler’s philosophy and psychology.
Individuals interested in studying Alfred Adler’s philosophical and psychological approach to humanity are welcome to join the bi-weekly Friday book discussion. Depending on the difficulty of the text, pages are assigned for discussion and exploration. To date, The Courage to Be Disliked (Kishimi & Koga), What Life Could Mean to You, and The Neurotic Character have been or are being studied. The diversity of the discussion group, primarily philosophers and therapists, fosters lively debate and broadens understanding of Adler’s contributions.
Bi-weekly on Fridays • Open to interested readers
Internship
Adlerian training and supervised clinical development for counseling students.
Family-Counselling Services serves as an internship site for students within Webster University/Geneva’s CACREP-accredited Counseling Program. Students who express an interest in Adlerian counseling participate in a five-week training in the fundamentals of Adlerian Depth Psychotherapy. The 30-hour training includes in-depth discussions aimed at helping students apply their newly developed counseling skills in an Adlerian manner—holistically, phenomenologically, teleologically, with a focus on Social Interest.
5-week training • 30 hours • Internship site through Webster University/Geneva
Translation Activities
Collaborative work to translate and interpret Adlerian texts for contemporary readers.
Our translation activities support the careful study and contemporary transmission of Adlerian thought. Through collaborative reading, interpretation, and discussion, this work helps make foundational concepts and writings more accessible to students, clinicians, and interested readers.
Ongoing collaborative work
Check back regularly for new opportunities.