The Southern Region provides an opportunity for
graduate students and new therapists to get a taste of the American
Academy of Psychotherapists. AAP believes in the value of experiential,
expressive, depth and humanistically oriented psychotherapies.
AAP also believes in the importance of the development of the therapist
on all levels. Toward this end, AAP's activities have process groups
and experiential groups throughout. We are a unique national organization
for this reason. Our members believe in the essential value of
these therapies and the emphasis on personal development of the
therapist.
One of the goals of the Southern Region is to attract and
welcome students. Over delicious potluck suppers at salons and
through experiential workshops at our conferences, you get an "unplugged" experience
with seasoned therapists who practice depth psychotherapy. Conference
workshops are primarily experiential instead of didactic, emphasizing
the emotional/psychological process of the participants over content.
We are the beacon for long-term therapy in a time when graduate
programs focus is on short-term, empirical interventions.
We offer students free registration at our Spring Conference and
make every effort to welcome and encourage those who pursue this
rewarding profession. So, all students please join us and bookmark
this web site to keep posted on our activities.
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An Invitation to be a
Participant in the
American Academy of Psychotherapists,
Southern Region
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is a very active part of AAP. We’re dedicated
to keeping the art of psychotherapy alive and dynamic.
The
Southern Region helps to actively grow the Academy by introducing
new therapists, graduate students and practicing therapists to
our regional events. Those events include two informal Salons each
year and an annual Spring Conference.
Southern
Region Salons are informal functions in the home of an AAP
member. We normally hold one Salon in September/October,
prior to the national AAP Institute and Conference, and another
in January/February, prior to our own Spring Conference.
At our Salons, provocative and seasoned psychotherapists
offer an experience of the Academy that is always entertaining,
often educational, and frequently uplifting and healing. We all
share in bringing food for a delicious potluck dinner that precedes
the presentation.
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Our Spring Conference occurs in March or April in settings across
the Southeastern United States. We try to choose Conference sites
that offer beauty and an intimate and relaxing atmosphere. Past
venues include the Balsam Mountain Inn in the North Carolina
mountains and the Daufuskie Island Resort along the coast of
South Carolina.
Our Spring Conferences are imbued with a warm
and inviting, distinctly Southern, culture. In this supportive
aura, attendees can learn, grow, and experience a unique organization
of psychotherapists devoted to the highest caliber of personal
and professional growth.
We
look forward to sharing the academy with you. Come to a Southern
Region event and share in an experience you won’t soon forget.
:
Kirven Weekley, Chair
Stephanie Ezust, Immediate Past Chair
Sharman Colosetti – Past Chair
Kay Starr Rachelson – Treasurer
Jonathan Dodd – Secretary
Joe Turner – CE Chair
Jane Davis
Ken Turner
Joel Rachelson
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