The Strategic Family Therapy Center carries forward the work of Jay Haley, MRI's first Research Director, one of its founders and a pioneer in family therapy.
Haley called the therapy Strategic because "it is a therapy where the therapist initiates what happens during therapy, designs a specific approach for each person's presenting problem, and where the therapist takes responsibility for directly influencing people.
After leaving MRI, Haley collaborated for a number of years with Salvador Minuchin where they mutually influenced each other's thinking. Minuchin's structural family therapy is a part of Haley's strategic model.
He described the therapy in one of his many notable books-"Problem-Solving Therapy," which helps to describe the therapy. He encouraged live supervision, whereby beginning therapists learn the art and skill of this new way of doing therapy by practicing in front of a one-way mirror, supervised by a team that assists the trainees in how to be most effective at helping clients to solve problems. That tradition is carried on here at MRI.
The theory underlying Strategic therapy has been the basis for most of the significant evidence-based family therapies of today.
The Center was established at MRI in 2001 through the vision of Eileen Bobrow, M.A., MFT. The Center offers therapy to individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents. Therapy fees are affordable and based on ability to pay. Clinic hours are flexible.
Under the direction of Ms. Bobrow, the Strategic Family Therapy Center also provides training, consultation and live supervision to interns, licensed therapists and agencies interested in learning the model. Ms. Bobrow has more than 32 years of experience helping families, couples and individuals. She received extensive training in Strategic Family Therapy with Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes and was a regional faculty member of their Family Therapy Institute of Washington D.C.
She has trained mental health professionals from around the nation and the world both through the Strategic Family Therapy program at MRI and as a consultant and teacher throughout her long career. -Read more about our services-
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EXTERNSHIP TRAINING OPPORTUNITY FOR CLINICIANS
FULL *Now accepting applications for 2012.
The Strategic Family Therapy Training Center is looking for several clinicians who would like training in Strategic Family Therapy, Hypnotherapy, and Gestalt Therapy from a systemic perspective.
In exchange for this six month comprehensive training, clinicians licensed in California and registered interns must be available to provide therapy at the Strategic Family Therapy Clinic, up to 2 cases per week and pay tuition. (contact us for new 2012 tuition rates). Clinicians may set their own schedule.
Clinicians, who are not licensed in California or are from outside the U.S will pay a tuition for the six month training (contact us for new 2012 tuition rates), and may not practice therapy due to legal requirements.
The hours for Gestalt are tentatively scheduled for Tuesdays from 9:00-11:00 a.m. Case discussion is from 11:00-12:00. Viewing and doing cases from behind the one-way mirror are from 2:00-6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays. Hypnosis training will occur on Tuesday or on a weekend day to TBA.**
*Days and times are tentatively scheduled and are subject to change depending on the schedules of teachers and applicants.
Trainers:
Eileen Bobrow, LMFT
Director of MRI's Strategic Family Therapy and Training Center and a Senior Research Fellow of the Mental Research Institute. She has been both a Faculty Member of the Family Therapy Institute of Washington, D.C. and an Associate Professor of the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco. She trained with Jay Haley and Cloe Madanes and incorporates many of their ideas and influence into her practice.
Lucanna Grey, LMFT
Is licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist. Lu trained as a Gestalt therapist and was a trainer at the Gestalt Institute of San Francisco from 1984 to 1991. Her orientation is primarily existential and Gestalt and she enjoy developing teaching experiences for students and trainees.
Carol Erickson, LCSW, MFCC
Director of the Erickson Institute, which offers individual and staff training for therapists, clinics and agencies. Subjects include Ericksonian Hypnosis and dynamic Ericksonian short term therapy. Carol has a life-long experience in the fields of hypnosis and therapy dating from her childhood as eldest daughter of Milton Erickson, M.D.
Tentative starting date: September 19th, 2011 – March 19th, 2012.
*Years two and three are by invitation only.
For more information, please contact the Director of the Strategic Family Therapy at eileenbobrow@gmail.com or email the MRI Director at mariapiaallende@mri.org. Our direct phone line is (650) 321-3055.
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INTERNSHIP FOR MFTs and SOCIAL WORKERS
Great Opportunity to Intern with the MRI!
Learn first hand knowledge and gain experience by interning at the Strategic Therapy Center. The Center offers therapy to individuals, couples, families, children and adolescents. Looking for interns who have an interest in mental health and enjoy working with people.
Applicants must speak Spanish. Please contact Eileen Bobrow at eileenbobrow@gmail.com or call (650) 322-2252.
