Phillip Horner, LCSW, CGP (he/him)

Accepts:
Currently Full. Except for Group Clients

Phillip is supervising at Whole Connection and does not have much space for individual clients, but does have room for group clients

Phillip Horner, Founder, Co-Director, Clinical Supervisor, LCSW, CGP (he/him)

Phillip (he/him/his) works with individuals struggling with relational trauma from a perspective of repair. He is a Certified Group Psychotherapist who is trained in many different individual modalities such as attachment, psychodynamic, mastery control, and relational theories. He uses these theories to help clients reconnect and retell difficult stories and traumas in their attempt to heal relational attachments. This is accomplished only through the relationship that he focuses on from the very beginning with all of his clients. He aims to work with those who want to feel seen or who have had trouble connecting before. In order to help people feel seen he will create space to bring in all the different intersecting identities that are part of us. He integrates approaches on Internal Family Systems, Mindfulness, Narrative Therapy, and his foundation in Attachment and Psychodynamic theories.

Part of working with Phillip usually involves joining one of his Relationship Groups as a way of supporting the individual work. These groups are created from years of training in group and are where Phillip focuses on building new attachment patterns between clients and working on understanding difficult patterns. In this space Phillip and his clients can together repair attachments, work on past traumas, and discover intimacy without fear in group together.

On top of seeing clients individually and in groups, Phillip also holds the role of Co-Director at Whole Connection and supervises many of the therapists here.

What is Phillip like as a Supervisor?

Much like as a therapist Phillip focuses a lot of his attention to the relationship that the supervisee and Phillip develop. This building of trust is so important in order for Phillip to be able to work, teach, train, and mentor any new therapist in the field. In order to do this he models how to engage and be in relation with clients that can promote trust and repair, by making sure that he puts full effort into this with his supervisees.

Phillip focuses his attention to notice the interactions between client and therapist everything small and large, which can be the subtle movements and displays of emotion that are missed by the therapist that could give large opportunities for growth and engagement to the larger entanglement of therapist and client intersecting identities. This means how not only the client is impacted by the ways they are impacted by the world that differ from our own, but also how we are impacted by our clients and how that can hinder and sometimes support our work with them. It is common place for work on counter-transference, enactments, inductions, and the complexity of our intersecting identities in ourselves and with our clients, to be center and focus in supervision with Phillip.

Trainings led and co-led:

2021 - Racism’s Cost of disconnection: Can We Reconnect? (10 week Special Topic Institute) w/ Marcée Turner PhD, online through AGPA E-Learning

2021 - White Allyship: figuring Out Our Roadmap (2 day Special Topic Institute) - AGPA Connect

2020 - Racism’s Cost of disconnection: Can We Reconnect? (2 day Special Topic Institute) w/ Marcée Turner PhD, at AGPA Connect

2019 - Racism’s Cost of disconnection: Can We Reconnect? (2 day Special Topic Institute) w/ Marcée Turner PhD, at AGPA Connect

2018 - Racism’s Cost of disconnection: Can We Reconnect? (1 day Special Topic Institute) w/ Marcée Turner PhD at 4 Corners Group Psychotherapy Conference

2018 - Warp and Woof: How Race Roles Influence the Tapestry of Our Worlds (2 day workshop) w/ Marcée Turner PhD, Christine Schmidt LCSW, and Rudy Lucas LCSW - at AGPA Connect

2017 - Reaching Across the Racial Divide: It Starts with Me, It Ends with Us (2 day Special Topic workshop) w/Marcée Turner PhD and Marcia Warren LPC

2017 - Warp and Woof: How Race Roles Influence the Tapestry of Our Worlds (1 day workshop) w/ Marcée Turner PhD, Christine Schmidt LCSW, Rudy Lucas LCSW at AGPA Connect

2017 - Understanding Microaggressions in Group and the Impact w/ Karen Cone-Uemura - Training for AGPA Faculty

2016 - Effective Facilitation when Microaggressions Occur in Group w/ Karen Cone-Uemura at AGPA Connect

Outside of Whole Connection - Consulting

Phillip consults on interpersonal business improvements in order to help business, groups, and organizations grow cooperatively together and thrive. He can be contacted more for more information at phillip@cooperativegrowth.org

Personally

In Life Phillip loves to spend time crafting, building, and designing through his construction and repair work. He has enjoyed carpentry since he was a teen and continues to use it and his electrical work to build off grid systems and small homes, tiny fine carpentry, and moveable art (homes on wheels). His favorite thing to do is to find a way to make something in a tiny space, being presented with a problem is something that excites him and continues to push his desire to learn. Anytime he can do this with his family and of course Mila makes him happy, particularly while it takes them all into the mountains and snow.

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