Introduction:

As a clinical practitioner, whether being a social worker, counsellor, therapist, clinical 
psychologist, we need to build up a repertoire of therapeutic interventions in a 
systematic and effective way.   

This supervision group aims at using an integrative model of interventions to help our 
clients become a holistic integrative person by resuming a reorganized sense of self.  
Based on our evolutionary triune brain, this model is an integration of body-based, 
emotion-focused and narrative-informed interventions.  

This is a theoretical integration of different knowledge bases, including person-centered therapy, Gestalt therapy, experiential therapy, existential therapy, contemporary emotion theory, neuroscience, attachment theory, mindfulness, and narrative analysis. 

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Objectives:

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This supervision group aims at providing a perform for those, who have already 
attended at least one two-day workshop on emotion-focused interventions conducted 
by Mrs. Catherine Poon, to have more practice skills drilling, to present case for 
consultation, and to inquire about any clinical issues encountered in daily practice.

 

Practice skills drilling includes: 

• daily practice in cultivating therapeutic presence 

• developing therapeutic relationship and alliance 

• active listening and empathic attunement 

• tracking narrative process 

• emotion assessment to differentiate different emotions 

• practice of different empathic responses 

• facilitating emotional awareness, expression and reflection 

• facilitating neuro-affective and emotional regulation 

• integrating body-based interventions 

• enhancing internal experiencing 

• case conceptualization 

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Supervision Format:

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• One 3-hour session per month (registration every three months) 

• Experiential exercises 

• Simulated practice of counseling sessions 

• Case consultations 

• Q&A on clinical difficulties

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Supervision Format:

Cantonese supplemented with English

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Date: 15 January, 12 February and 26 March, 2025 （Wednesday）

Time: 2:00 pm - 5:00 pm 

Venue: 9/F, No. 9, Shing Mun Road, Tsuen Wan, NT

Target: Social Workers, Counselors, Clinical Psychologists and other helping 
professionals  

Number of Participants: minimum 6 persons, maximum 8 persons

Attendance: Participants with 80% or above attendance would be granted certificates 

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Fee︰$2400 (early bird) (Enroll & pay course fee On or before 25/12/2024) 
$2600 (regular) 

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Trainer︰Mrs. Catherine Poon

• B.A., M.S.W., M.BuddhStud. 

• Personal and Marriage Counselor 

• Registered Social Worker 

• Certified Counselor (HKPCA) 

• Associate Fellow (HKPCA)  

• Approved Supervisor (HKPCA)  

• Certified EFT Trainer (Individual Therapy) recognized by the International Society for Emotion Focused Therapy (isEFT)

 

Mrs. Catherine Poon has worked with the Hong Kong Catholic Marriage Advisory Council (HKCMAC) for over 20 years as a marriage counselor.  She specializes her clinical work with clients of emotional dysregulation, depression, anxiety, and childhood attachment trauma, and couples with chronic physical/mental illnesses, addictive behavioral problems and extra-marital relationship.  Apart from clinical practice of individual and couple counselling, she has supervised social work students at different universities and family mediator trainees from different social service agencies.  She maintains a humanistic person-centered approach in her clinical practice and supervision. 

Mrs. Catherine Poon has been trained in Emotion-Focused Therapy (EFT) with Professor Leslie Greenberg since 2004. She has given presentations, provided skills coaching in the Module Workshops, and conducted monthly supervision groups in the yearly Training Programs in EFT (Individual & Couples) jointly organized by the EFT Clinic of York University and HKCMAC from 2007 to 2017.  Over the years, she has led hundreds of supervision group sessions.  She is recognized as a certified EFT individual trainer since 2016. 

She is currently in private practice.  She continues to provide individual and couples therapy, training workshops on EFT (Individual and Couples), Advanced Empathy and Mindfulness-informed clinical work, and EFT supervision for local practitioners.  She is an Honorary Lecturer at the University of Hong Kong since 2015, teaching Emotion Focused Interventions and Marital Counseling for Master degree students of counseling and social work.