Two days training on Gestalt Approach in working with
Traumatic Experience
Two days training on Gestalt Approach in working with Traumatic Experience
Objective of the training:
The training aims at highlighting the principles and skills of the trauma therapy in an embodied relational field model (relational gestalt ) It aims at extending the knowledge, skills and clinical experience on trauma work with enhancing participants’ awareness about trauma is a field phenomenon that place emphasis on the relational dimension.
The content of the training:
1. Impact of trauma on the victim’s sense of self in relation to the others and the bigger world.
2. Understanding the cognitive and somatic features that are common to traumatic clients.
3. Understanding the defensive mechanism and the monitoring of dysregulated arousal.
4. Expanding choices of support and resources to increase safety and to reduce the impact of trauma with focus on stabilization.
5. The role of the therapist, the resources and the reconnection : the embodied, the experiential contact to mutual regulation and healing.
The format of the training: Lecture, experiential exercises, small group sharing and discussion
Target: Social Worker & Counselor
Medium of Instruction: Cantonese, supplemented with English
Program Number: PT-270201
Date: 12/2/2027 & 13 /2/2027
Time: 10:00 am- 17:00pm
Venue: Room 906, 9/F, No.9, Shing Mun Road, Tsuen Wan
Fee: Original Fee: $2,500
Early bird fee: $2,200 (On or before 12/1/2027)
Two persons enrolling together or Caritas Staff : $2,100 /each
Attendance: Participants with 80% or above attendance would be granted certificates
Ms. Annetta Wong 黃秀薇女士
Senior Counselling and Training Consultant
Gestalt Supervisor, Istituto di Gestalt H.C.C. Italy
Accredited Gestalt Therapy Practitioner
Brief Therapist
PgD in Family-centred Social Work (HKPU)
Prepare Enrich Certified Counselor
Triple-P® Accredited Group Facilitator
Ms Wong is the senior training and counselling consultant in HEAT, Caritas Family Service. She was the Chief Training and Counseling Consultant in the same project from 2004 to 2016. She had worked as family caseworker, school social worker since her career in Caritas Family Service since 1991.
Ms Wong has extensive clinical experience in counseling especially in marital issues, family relationship work and crisis prevention work. She provides training and clinical supervision on marital issues to social workers in Caritas Family Service and in the field since 2013. She has been invited as guest lecturer in topic of crisis intervention work and family counselling to social work students in university.
Ms Wong graduated from The Chinese University of Hong Kong in 1989. Ms. Wong received her Post-graduate Diploma in Family-centred Social Work in 1995 and Master of Social Work in 2012 awarded with Dean’s List. Ms Wong joined the Brief Therapists’ Team in the agency in mid 90’s. She had received extensive training by renowned international trainers on Solution-focused Brief Therapy and system therapy such as Ms Insoo Kim Berg, Dr. Scott Miller and Ms Lee Mo Yee and case supervision by local academics such as Dr. Ho Wui Shing, Dr. Chu Chi Keung and Dr. Yeung Ka Ching
Ms Wong also received her gestalt therapy trainings from Paula Bottome from 1997 to 2000 and was accredited of therapy practitioner. In 2002, she attended the one-year certificate training program by Dr. John Banmen on Suicide Prevention and Treatment by Centre for Suicide Research and Prevention of University of Hong Kong. She has been learning and adapting different counselling theories in practice but mostly on the existential and experiential approach. Since 2017 onwards, Ms Wong follows Dr Margherita Spagnuolo Lobb in international trainings on Relational Gestalt therapy and accredited as Gestalt Supervisor in 2019.
