A Year-Long Learn-Along

Discernment Counseling in Practice

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A Year-Long Learn-Along

This year-long learn-along is for clinicians who are currently in, or preparing for, Discernment Counseling certification and want a steady, supportive place to integrate the work while moving through the training.

Discernment Counseling looks straightforward on paper. In practice, it lives in the small decisions — how you hold the frame, how you respond when clients pull you toward therapy, and how you stay anchored in the model without losing sight of each person’s lived experience.

What We’ll Focus On

Over the year, we’ll work through the Discernment Counseling model section by section, with particular attention to the moments where clinicians most often feel stuck or pulled off course, including:

  • Knowing when you are practicing Discernment Counseling — and when the work has shifted into something else

  • Connection is a core part of the process. You’ll learn just as much from the group as from the content itself.

  • Examining the micro-moves — language, pacing, sequencing, and stance — that make DC distinct

  • Responding when clients resist the discernment frame or want you to “just help them fix it”

  • Staying grounded in structure and protocol without becoming rigid or dismissive

  • Practicing containment without shutting clients down or slipping into therapy mode

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Monthly Live Meetings

  • When: Last Friday of each month

  • Time: 12:00–1:30 PM EST

  • Format: Virtual, live

  • Length: 12 months

Each 90-minute meeting focuses on a specific piece of the model, with teaching, discussion, and shared clinical thinking. This is a collaborative space designed to support integration, not performance.

Meetings are live only. If you miss a session, you’ll receive a written summary with key takeaways.

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Weekly Check-In Emails

Between meetings, you’ll receive brief weekly emails that include:

  • Reflection prompts connected to the current focus

  • Questions to notice your stance, reactions, and pulls in session

  • Light accountability to stay engaged with the material

Additional Support

  • Each participant receives one complimentary 30-minute 1:1 consultation to use at any point during the year

  • Participants are welcome to reach out between sessions to talk through questions or reflections as they arise

  • Learn more about Lyn Here

Who This Is For

  • This learn-along is open to clinicians who are:

  • Actively pursuing Discernment Counseling certification, or

  • Certified and wanting to revisit and deepen their practice

  • Find out more about certification here

A Year-Long Learn-Along: Discernment Counseling in Practice
$150.00 $250.00

A monthly, live learning space for clinicians pursuing or holding Discernment Counseling certification who want support integrating the model in real clinical work. Through structured monthly meetings and weekly check-in prompts, we focus on staying in the discernment frame, managing common pull-offs, and refining the subtle clinical moves that make Discernment Counseling distinct.

Frequently Asked Questions

  • This learn-along is designed for licensed clinicians who are currently pursuing Discernment Counseling certification or who are already certified and want to revisit and strengthen their practice.

  • No. This learn-along supports clinicians as they move through certification or continue integrating Discernment Counseling into their work. It is meant to complement formal training, not replace it.

  • The focus is on learning the practice of Discernment Counseling over time—examining structure, stance, and the micro-moves that keep the work from drifting into couples therapy. The emphasis is on shared learning and clinical thinking rather than directive case guidance.

  • We focus on how Discernment Counseling actually unfolds in session, including staying in the discernment frame, responding when clients push for couples therapy, holding containment without shutting clients down, and recognizing the subtle clinical choices that make the model distinct from other approaches.

  • No. Meetings are live only. If you miss a session, you’ll receive a written summary with key takeaways.

  • Participants are welcome to reach out between sessions. Each clinician also receives one complimentary 30-minute individual consultation to use at any point during the year.

  • Meetings are held live on the last Friday of each month from 12:00–1:30 PM EST.

  • No. Some clinicians join while actively seeing cases, while others participate to prepare before offering Discernment Counseling or to revisit the work after time away.

  • You can join at any point during the year. The learn-along is designed to be flexible, allowing clinicians to jump in when it best fits their training timeline or caseload. Some participants choose to join later in the year to move through the material in a more condensed timeframe, while others prefer to start early and integrate the work gradually.

  • Reach out anytime! Lynda@attachedny.com