Clinical Practice
Are you, a family member, or friend looking for psychological help to deal with challenging issues from the past that may be negatively affecting your or their current lives?
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Psychoanalysis and psychotherapy can be incredibly valuable for working through trauma, developmental challenges, and patterns of thoughts and behaviors that interfere with well-being and fulfilling relationships. While therapy is often emotionally demanding and requires vulnerability and hard work, it also has the potential to be life-changing in providing the help and support needed to heal, grow, and thrive.
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Dr. Gwyn Erwin, an expert in developmental processes and working with trauma, offers Psychoanalysis and Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for individuals, couples, adolescents, and families in her private practice in Orange County, California. In addition, she provides assessments and collaborative treatment guidelines for children who are struggling.
(Providing Confidential Telehealth Services via Zoom, FaceTime, and WhatsApp makes treatment much more accessible to more people in a protected and safe environment)
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” — Lao Tzu
As a Post-Graduate Psychology Student or Analytic Candidate, are you seeking either required therapeutic or supervisory hours? Such hours are invaluable as you begin working with patients and embracing the profound responsibility of helping others who are in distress.
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Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Dr. Gwyn Erwin offers training hours or supervision to Psychology Student/Candidate Analysts during their training experience. Together, we explore the psychological dynamics in a variety of cases (Pre-or- Post Control Supervision), or we may devote a year’s work of supervision on one case (Control Case Supervision) in once-a-week meetings.
During this time, the supervisory focus is on:
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establishing a trustworthy therapeutic alliance between student therapist and patient, which is vital in supporting the collaborative work of the internal object world of the patient, the co-created intersubjective world, and how that inner psychological realm affects the various areas of the patients’ lives that are challenged
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navigating the transition from working solely in a supportive therapeutic mode to an in-depth psychodynamic approach
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facilitating the supervisees in learning how to build their private practices
Training & Supervision
Consultation
Any new, developing, or seasoned therapist can find themselves needing help with a particularly challenging case, sometimes because of a stalement, disjunction, or temporary breakdown in the therapeutic relationship or because of the therapist’s own disabling responses to therapeutic material or interpersonal dynamics. Being a therapist/analyst is one of the most rewarding professions one can engage in, but it can also be particularly demanding due to necessarily strict limitations of discussing one’s work and the emotional requirements of being fully present with and processing a wide range of patient needs.
For such therapists/analysts, Case Consultation in a safe and confidential environment offers the opportunity to discuss deeply those areas of special challenges that may arise in any case and and forge fresh approaches in treatment. Being able to “think together” with a seasoned colleague can be invaluable in finding trustworthy and creative paths toward healing.
As a Training and Supervising Psychoanalyst, Dr. Gwyn Erwin works with other professional clinicians, individually or in small groups, in consulting on a variety of their cases or on a specific case. She brings to her clinical partnerships thirty years of clinical experience and innovative expertise in developmental issues as they play out in current lives, as well as working with trauma.
Group Supervision & Consultation
Supervision may also be found within confidential group settings of peer Students/Candidates or Consultation with other Licensed Therapists/Analysts. The opportunity to share with other clinicians provides the participants multiple perspectives from which to consider therapeutic dilemmas. As well, the exchange of theoretical ideas
may shed new light on cases when applying various approaches to clinical work. The rich experience of a safe and private group setting may be the perfect environment in which to put many heads together for the good of individual patients.
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.” — Henry David Thoreau
Expert Witness
Valued as a Psychoanalyst with an Emphasis in Corroborative Family Law Solutions, Dr. Gwyn Erwin provides a number of services within the family law arena:
she sees parent and/or child referrals from 730 Evaluators and Family Law Attorneys in High Conflict Divorce situations, while also serving as an expert witness in Court in the areas of Development and Trauma.
“We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.”
— Anaïs Nin
Teaching
Dr. Gwyn Erwin has taught for several decades in a variety of educational institutions from analytic training to graduate programs to private groups. Her areas of expertise include many originally created Psychoanalytic courses, Developmental Programs and classes, Working with Trauma, Writing, and Creativity. Often an invited Instructor at graduate schools, college and university writing programs, and psychoanalytic training institutes, Dr. Erwin can teach for a special weekend or a semester or quarter.
“You miss 100% of the shots you never take.”
— Wayne Gretzky
Speaking Engagements
Conferences
Dr. Gwyn Erwin has been a keynote and panel presenter at many conferences over the years in the areas of Psychoanalysis, Development, Trauma, Writing, and Creativity. To request her as a Guest Speaker, please see her Contact Information.
Workshops
Dr. Gwyn Erwin also offers a more interactive form of learning than larger trainings and classroom
or lecture settings. In these small Workshops, whether analytic, writing, or creativity, participants share in confidential and safe environments.
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Each group allows for everyone’s full involvement. Monthly schedules are co-created and reliable, supporting each person’s development of
their goals over time.
“At the center of your being you have the answer; you know who you are and you know what you want.” — Lao Tzu
TRADEMARKS ARE THE PROPERTY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE OWNERS.
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