Graduate school enables you to start the journey to becoming a mental health professional. However, becoming a highly effective clinician requires far more than can be taught in a classroom or in supervision, which by definition focuses only on managing day-to-day issues of providing services. Furthermore, current supervision practices and ethical standards make it increasingly difficult to develop a robust mentoring relationship that meaningfully addresses all facets of taking one’s career to the next level. New professionals need to be the agents in choosing their path to create a career that they love. Mentoring, rather than supervision or YouTube, is the most effective and efficient way to do this.

Who is this program for?

This program is open to any new mental health professionals who want to:

  • Pass their licensing exam on the first attempt.

  • Better understand how to create and maximize income opportunities.

  • Receive the benefits of personalized mentoring from a recognized expert in the field.

  • Develop high level of professional knowledge and skills quickly.

  • Desires meaningful guidance as a new professional that cannot be provided in clinical supervision.

Professional Mentoring

with Dr. Diane Gehart

  • Mastering Foundations for Exam Success and Beyond

    Confidently and quickly master mental health foundations to not only prepare you for licensing exams but to fundamentally transform how you conceptualize your work.

  • Clinical Skills

    Accelerate your clinical skill development to dramatically improve your effectiveness with a wide range of clients.

  • Personal Effectiveness

    Develop effectiveness habits that will distinguish you from the rest as a true professional and improve almost any area of your life, solidifying your understanding of behavioral, cognitive, and systemic principles for use with clients.

  • Income Building

    Identify professional income-generating possibilities that fit with your goals and skills, dramatically increasing your income potential for years to come.

  • Personal Development

    Moving beyond self-care, you will be invited to take an inventory of your life on all levels and begin taking concrete steps on a life-long journey of growth and greater wellbeing.

What You Get

  • Series of 12 Online Workshops

    Twelve one-hour mentoring workshops with Dr. Diane Gehart corresponding to the twelve program modules. Workshops are held on weekends.

  • Private Course Webpage

    Access to private online class webpage with downloadable resources both for clients and your own personal career development, enabling you to apply concepts from each module immediately.

  • Community

    Lifetime access to a private Facebook group to connect with other mentees.

Diane R. Gehart, PhD, LMFT

Diane Gehart, PhD, LMFT is a best-selling author, having authored over 12 books for professional and general audiences, including Mastering Competencies in Family Therapy, Theory and Treatment Planning in Counseling and Psychotherapy, Mindfulness and Acceptance in Couple and Family Therapy, and Mindfulness for Chocolate Lovers: A Lighthearted Way to Stress Less and Savor More Each Day. An award-winning educator who has supervised therapists for nearly three decades, she is a Professor in the Marriage and Family Therapy and Counseling Programs at California State University, Northridge. Her research has been featured in newspapers, radio shows, and television worldwide, and She maintains an active private practice in the Los Angeles area.
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The Curriculum

Module 1

THE FOUNDATION OF BECOMING A GREAT MENTAL HEALTH CLINICIAN: YOU

  • Understand the hidden connection between your personal and professional life

  • Link self-of-the-therapist and improved clinical outcomes

  • Create a life that supports you in becoming a great professional

  • Identify personal barriers to doing this work well, including imposter syndrome

Module 2

BECOMING HIGHLY EFFECTIVE (AT EVERYTHING)

  • How to set and achieve any goal

  • Manage time without excuses

  • Learn how to practically prioritize your priorities

  • Examine how your social location and experiences of marginalization affect your ability to be effective

Module 3

NEUROLOGICALLY INFORMED APPROACH TO STRESS AND TRAUMA (INCLUDING LICENSING EXAMS)

  • Understanding the stressed brain and how it affects you and your clients

  • Learn the two hidden reasons most fail licensing exams and how to overcome them

  • Easy mindfulness hacks for test anxiety and everyday stress

  • Multiple-choice test hacks based on your cognitive/personality type

Module 4

THE LEAST UNDERSTOOD ISSUE IN APPLIED MENTAL HEALTH

  • What a personality disorder is and is not: Beyond the popular media and old-school rhetoric

  • How clinical savvy regarding personality disorders will make you dramatically more effective (almost psychic)

  • Know how to intervene effectively to dramatically improve clinical outcomes with virtually every client

Module 5

TREATMENT WITH ADULTS AND TEENS MADE SIMPLE

  • The secret to an authentic and lasting therapeutic connection

  • Understanding trauma and how to treat it

  • Identify the client’s core issues in the first session

  • The simple way to make change happen quickly

Module 6

FAMILY AND CHILD THERAPY MADE SIMPLE

  • Assess child problems in the first 15 minutes (Hint: There are only three basic types of problems)

  • Repair attachment between parents and their children

  • Teach parenting with three simple interventions

  • When and how to work with a child individually: trauma and divorce

Module 7

COUPLES THERAPY MADE SIMPLE

  • Identify even the most challenging couple’s core dynamic in a single session

  • How to identify untreated trauma that fuels dysfunctional couple dynamics with one technique

  • Master the one intervention that couples need most

  • Enable couples to radically shift how they see their partner with a single intervention

Module 8

POSTMODERN THEORIES: THE KEY TO CONNECTION AND LONG-TERM CHANGE

  • Understanding the fundamental difference between postmodern and other approaches

  • What your mind should always be doing while clients talk so you remember everything

  • Shift clients’ identity narratives to achieve lasting change

Module 9

SYSTEMIC FAMILY THEORIES: THE HARDEST TO MASTER

  • Learn the two fundamental concepts that make all systemic theories easy to understand

  • Understand the counterintuitive logic behind most systemic interventions (and pass your systemic theory exam questions)

  • The secret to using systemic theory to get any case unstuck

Module 10

COGNITIVE-BEHAVIORAL THEORY: IDENTIFYING THE MISSING PIECE

  • Why most clinicians don’t do CBT well

  • Understand the element of CBT the average clinician skips

  • Match the right intervention to each client

Module 11

EXPERIENTIAL THERAPIES: WHY FEW DO THEM WELL

  • The great misunderstanding of experiential therapy

  • How “nice” therapists can do more harm than good even when clients like them

  • The “logic” of emotionally-based interventions

Module 12

INCOME BUILDING

  • How to make money in this field

  • Creating multiple streams of income

  • Explore ways to expand your income, like supervision, private practice, book authorship, speaking engagements, and social media influencing

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Course Goals

By the end of this program, participants will be able to:

  • Identify how to strategically develop themselves personally to improve their use of self in clinical work.

  • Set a goal and successfully achieve it, including how to problem solve when issues arise.

  • Focus their conceptualization when working with adults, couples, and families/children.

  • Successfully employ essential key elements of four major clinical approaches to improve clinical outcomes.

  • Pursue opportunities to expand their practices, serve their community, and generate additional income.

Learning Objectives

  • Participants will identify one area of personal growth to make them more effective in their clinical work.

  • Participants will identify one professional goal and know at least two strategies for ensuring the goal is achieved.

  • Participants will be able successfully implement at least one intervention from four different theoretical orientations.

  • Participants will be able to use 2-3 concepts to quickly assess/conceptualize three basic types of clients: individual adults, distressed couples, and families/children.

  • Participants will be able to name at least one new means of generating income in the field.