NYPCRC Person-Centered Supervision Opportunities
The New York Person-Centered Resource Center is the only Person-Centered mental health center in New York City, and, one of only two Person-Centered mental health centers in all of the United States. Being Person-Centered, we hold the work of Carl Rogers as our theoretical foundation that drives all of our clinical practices.
Our center offers the full gambit of psychotherapy services to individuals of all ages including: individual, family, and couples psychotherapy. In addition to our fundamental acceptance of Roger’s work, our Person-Centered foundation motivates us to question the dominance of the “Medical Model,” the usefulness of psychopharmacology, as well as the legitimacy of diagnosis as directed by the Diagnostic and Statistics Manual of the American Psychiatric Association (DSM). Consequently we offer a truly alternative form of mental health treatment here in New York City and we have earned success because of our alternative views.
Our center is becoming known for our alternative perspective that seeks to speak to the needs of New Yorkers who are tired of judgmental diagnosis and directive analysis. Specifically many of our clients come to us after having been though difficult experiences of being judged, diagnosed, or medicated by other mental health professionals. We have become a true asylum where we help our clients recover from the judgement of previous treatments as well as gain the knowledge to slowly come off the psychiatric medications they have been put on. Getting off psychiatric medications does not have to be a difficult process as long as the client is fully participatory, has a self-directed plan, and is aware of and has a plan to address the withdrawal symptoms.
Our main challenge comes from our small number of practitioners. There are an estimated 10,000 mental health practitioners in New York City. Yet we know of maybe ten individuals who have Person-Centered training and consider themselves Person-Centered. Most of these individuals are older or were trained in foreign countries. Therefore, we see a serious crisis and lack of awareness in our mental health community of the work of Carl Rogers and of the existence of the Person-Centered Approach.
Moving towards our goal of increasing the presence of the Person-Centered Approach in New York City we offer "Person-Centered supervision (we also like to call it "Peer Intervision") to mental health professional and students, as well as other professionals who seek face-to-face consultation about our approach.
If you are interested in further investigating our opportunities for Person-Centered Supervision please contact us.