Short Courses

To register for a short course, please first contact the course instructor to sign up. Participants should make their checks out to "WSSCSW" and send them to:

Carolyn Sharp, LICSW
WSSCSW Treasurer
3876 Bridge Way N. Suite 200
Seattle, WA 98103

Supervision for Beginners

Instructor: Bill Etnyre, PhD, LICSW
Sessions: Five Wednesdays
Time: 7 – 8:30 pm
Dates: January 16 & 30, February 13 & 27 and March 12
Location: 908 14th Ave. East, Seattle
Course Size: minimum five, maximum eight
Course Fee: $150 for members; $160 for nonmembers
CE Credits: 7.5 hours
Requirements: Currently providing clinical supervision Course is targeted for new supervisors, but more experienced supervisors are welcome
Registration: Bill Etnyre, 206-285-7877 or bnyre@msn.com

This seminar is designed to offer supervisors an opportunity to fulfill half of the state required hours for becoming an approved supervisor of LICSW candidates and to deepen knowledge and skills in supervision of clinical social work (brief and ongoing counseling/therapy and case management). We will use case examples of the instructor's and participants supervision work to highlight such phenomena as parallel process, use of your internal experience, socio-cultural and power issues in supervisory relationships, coordination of supervision by both agency and outside supervisors, and your role as both "teacher" and "overseer" of the clinician's work. We will focus also on enhancing your skills as a flexible facilitator of your supervisee's critical thinking, creativity, and confidence in her knowledge and abilities, looking at what works and doesn't, and when it does and doesn't. Selected readings will augment the learning experience.

Bill Etnyre, a 2005 Ph.D. graduate of Smith College School of Social Work, has been a clinical supervisor and consultant for many years mostly in agency practice with graduate students in social work and counseling, therapists, crisis counseling workers, and HIV/AIDS counselors. Recently retired from Hall Health Mental Health Clinic after 16 years, he currently teaches at the UW School of Social Work, is an adjunct faculty member at Smith College SSW, and as a private practice in Seattle.

Deepening The Treatment

Instructor: Diane Zerbe, MA, BCD
Sessions: 8 Tuesdays: October 9, 16, 23 & 30; November 6, 13 27; December 4
Time: 7:30 – 9:00 pm
Dates: October 9, 16, 23 & 30; November 6, 13 27; December 4
Location: 939 21st Ave. East, Seattle (Capitol Hill)
Course Size: Maximum 12
Course Fee: $240 (members); $250 (nonmembers)
Continuing Education credits: 12
Requirements: Open to all clinician levels
Registration: Diane Zerbe, 206-441-6399

We will read Deepening the Treatment, by Jane Hall, (Jason Aronson Press, 1998,). We will discuss clinical material of instructor and participants with the focus on how the therapist can facilitate a deepening of the treatment that can make more frequent sessions possible.

For example we will discuss: l.) passing tests, often unconscious, about our reliability; 2.) clearing away obstacles to going deeper, by understanding the client's fears; 3.) turning potential disruptions of treatment into opportunities for deeper understanding; 4.) demonstrating the value of allowing the client's thoughts to flow freely by listening to unconscious meaning, including references to the transference; 5.) dealing with separations 6.) tolerating both the client's anger and positive feelings, 7.) communicating our conviction in our method.

Diane Zerbe is a clinical social worker and psychoanalyst, a graduate and faculty member of the Northwest Center for Psychoanalysis. She has done extensive teaching of other therapists, including a 10 week course, Human Growth and Development: Birth-6. Theory and Clinical Issues, through the WSSCSW.

Starting Your Own Private Practice

Instructors: Shirley Bonney, LICSW, and Karen Hansen, LICSW
Sessions: Four Tuesdays
Time: 7-8:30 pm
Dates: February 12, 26, March 11 and 25, 2008
Location: 1507 Western Avenue, Suite 603; Seattle
Course size: Maximum 8 participants
Course fee: $120 for members, $130 for nonmembers
CE Credits: 6 hours
Requirements: Considering starting or just starting private practice
Registration: Shirley Bonney, 206-264-5001 or shirleybonney@hotmail.com

This seminar is designed to help participants assess their readiness for private practice and focus on the steps necessary to move toward establishing a successful practice. Topics that will be included go from the pragmatic (i.e. finding an office, getting on insurance panels, malpractice insurance, bookkeeping, methods for billing) to clinical dilemmas around boundaries, medication consultations, fee setting, anxiety related to uncertain income; as well as networking, marketing, ways to develop ongoing support and consultation.

Shirley Bonney has over 30 years of experience as a clinical social worker. She completed her MSW at the University of Kansas in 1974, followed by a post-graduate fellowship at the Menninger School of Mental Health Sciences. Shirley is past president of the WSSCSW and the current chair of the Professional Development Committee.

Karen Hansen has over 22 years of experience as a clinical social worker. She received her MSW from the University of Washington in 1976. She offers in-depth psychotherapy to adults, adolescents, and couples. Karen is the Chairperson of the New Professional Program for the WSSCSW.

Shirley and Karen have taught many topics over the course of their careers, and are excited to offer their experience to those wanting to start a private practice.

Somatic Transformation

Instructor: Sharon A. Stanley, Ph.D.
Sessions: Two Saturdays
Time: 10 – 4:00pm
Dates: February 16 & 23
Location: 6172 Old Mill Rd. Bainbridge Island, WA 98110
Course Size: 25
Course Fee: $200
Continuing Education credits: 10
Requirements: Open to all clinician levels
Registration: Sharon Stanley, 206-780-2205

An innovative approach to the treatment of anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress and addictions.

Sharon Stanley, Ph.D. is a psychotherapeutic trauma specialist, educator and consultant with over 30 years of international experience with individuals and health care professionals working to transform the effects of physical, emotional, mental and spiritual trauma.

In her career, Dr. Stanley has combined a private practice of psychotherapy with University graduate level instruction in neurobiological and somatic approach to trauma resolution. As senior faculty member of a non-profit international trauma organization, Dr. Stanley developed curriculum and taught somatic psychotherapy to First Nations and other professionals in Canada, psychiatrist and psychologists in Israel and professionals throughout the United States.