Welcome to the course!

Metaphor is a powerful therapeutic tool and wonderful natural resource that enables people to conceptualize their lived experiences in new and helpful ways. When we think of an experience or relationship as something else, like a boat ride, a roller coaster, a growing plant, or a windy day, we have a fresh perspective to understand significant parts of our lives. We use these metaphors to help us understand the world and ourselves differently, and by drawing out the important details of those metaphors, people often find helpful tools, new strategies to try, and peace in understanding! We are always creating the world around us and making meaning of our experiences, thoughts, and feelings, and metaphors expand our universe and language to describe these experiences.

In this course, participants will hear from two counselors who use metaphor in their personal lives and in their clinical work. They hope to offer you ideas for bringing the wonderful world of metaphor into your therapeutic conversations, and help you detect useful and potent metaphors in your client's language already. By the end of the course participants will:

1.) Define metaphor and develop their own definition of metaphor

2.) Learn how to deepen metaphors and draw parallels to lived experience

3.) Take away practical interventions to use metaphor in clinical work



Presented by: 

Kyle Dzintars MS, LMHC, CCPT

Allison Meyers MS

Duration: 1 Hrs

Continuing Education (1 CE)
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Course Curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • How to Complete this Course!

    • Welcome!

    • Tell us more about YOU!
  • 2

    Course

    • (Audio) Metaphorically Speaking: Diving deep into a world of abstract conversation
  • 3

    Resources

    • References

    • Links
  • 4

    Continuing Education

    • Continuing Education Quiz
  • 5

    Course Feedback

    • Course Feedback Survey

MS, LMHC, CCPT

Kyle Dzintars

Kyle is a licensed mental health counselor in New York and works at Integrative Counseling Services, a mental health private practice in Oswego, NY. He counsels people of all ages, and is a certified Child-Centered Play Therapist through the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement (NIRE). Kyle is an adjunct professor at SUNY Oswego and teaches an Introduction to Narrative Therapy course and Introduction to Expressive Art Therapy for the Department of Counseling and Psychological Services. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Creative Writing, and earned his Master's Degree in Mental Health Counseling at SUNY Oswego.

About the instructors

MS

Allison Meyers

Allison is a mental health counselor in New York working toward her licensure. She works at Integrative Counseling Services, a mental health private practice in Oswego, NY where she counsels people of a range of ages. She is also working toward becoming a certified Child-Centered Play Therapist through the National Institute of Relationship Enhancement (NIRE). Allison recently received her Master's Degree in Mental Health Counseling from SUNY Oswego, where she also received her Play Therapy Graduate Certificate. She earned her Bachelor's Degree at Utica College where she majored in Psychology Child Life with a concentration in Child Studies.