Opening hearts, Opening minds

Caught between the needs of patients and the demands of insurance companies, therapists are burning out. They need help: help with difficult cases, and even help with their own personal therapeutic journeys.

 Authors Richard Raubolt and Kirk Brink believe they can help therapists address all these problems with a single approach: Therapeutic Group Consultation (TGC). In their new book, Opening Hearts, Opening Minds: Therapeutic Group Consultation, Raubolt and Brink show readers the unique approach of the TGC model, explore its many benefits, and illustrate how it works in groups of practicing therapists who are already benefiting from it.

 Packed with insights and examples from two veteran therapists who are pioneering a new approach to the care and professional development of people in the field, Opening Hearts, Opening Minds is the roadmap therapists need to navigate the unprecedented challenges they face.

What People Are Saying

“This is a great book for all therapists about how to be honestly human and vulnerable. . . . It outlines basic guidelines for conducting group consultation which work to create a safe, deep, meaningful, and authentic experience to help foster growth.”

Stuart Perlman Ph.D.
Author: The Therapist’s Emotional Survival and Open Your Heart through Art

“The authors have developed a group supervision model that shifts the supervision conversation from how to help the patient to how to help the therapist who is treating the patient! This book is a landmark contribution.”

Roy Barsness, Ph.D.
Author of Core Competencies in Relational Psychoanalysis: A Guide to Practice, Study and Research

“Becoming a psychotherapist requires us to lean into emotional discomfort, confront psychic pain, and genuinely examine our relations to self, others, and the world. In their consultation and supervision model, Raubolt and Brink provide just that kind of holistic environment lacking in formal training programs.”

Prof. Jon Mills, PsyD., PhD, ABPP
Author of Debating Relational Psychoanalysis: Jon Mills and his Critics