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Professional
Training
Right from the start,
Louise Fréchette is interested in her own professional development
especially because, in addition to individual consultations in guidance
counselling, she also co-leads various personal growth activities for the
students, with her colleagues from the Psychology and Guidance Counselling
Service, at Collège Ahuntsic.
In order to develop her skills in psychotherapy, she gets trained in
psychosynthesis
under the supervision of
Martha Crampton, psychologist and co-founder of
the Canadian Institute for Psychosynthesis. Her training at the Canadian
Institute for Psychosynthesis totals more than 500 hours, between 1972 and
1975. Towards the end of her training, she also participates in a summer
workshop given by the Institute, in Deerfield, Massachusetts, where she acts as a therapist for participants who
come from Canada as well as the United States East Coast.
Following her training in psychosynthesis, she becomes interested in
body psychotherapy. With some of her colleagues, psychologists and guidance
counsellors from other colleges in Montreal, she organizes a series of
bioenergetic analysis
workshops, lead by
Denis Royer, which will
eventually evolve into a complete training program acknowledged by the International
Institute for Bioenergetic Analysis, directed by
Dr. Alexander Lowen,
founder of the approach. The bioenergetic training program consists of at least
800 hours of training spanning over six (6) years, during which
Louise Fréchette is trained mainly by
Denis Royer and
André Lafrance, both psychologists. During
that training, she also has the opportunity to work with
Dr Alexander Lowen
as well as with several senior trainers from the International Bioenergetic
Analysis Institute. She begins to see clients in bioenergetic analysis in
1980, under supervision, and she is fully certified as a bioenergetic therapist
(CBT) in 1982.
Since 1982, not only has she been practicing as a bioenergetic analyst,
but she also teaches this approach on an international level.
In order to complement the training she already has,
Louise Fréchette also undertakes a four year training program of over
200 hours in
classic and ericksonian hypnosis, from 1989 to 1993, at the
Institut québécois de thérapie et d’hypnose éricksonniennes, founded by
Michel
Kérouak.
Since the beginning of
her career, Louise Fréchette has also participated
in many professional development workshops of various kinds (NLP, post
traumatic intervention, rational-emotional approach, etc.) |