Deliberate Practice Consultation Group

Jason Brand, LCSW

Senior Deliberate Practice Trainer 

MacKenzie Stuart, LMFT

Senior Deliberate Practice Trainer & Faculty

A Deliberate Practice consultation group for supervisors and clinicians led by two Sentio lead instructors. 

Sentio DP Consultation group teaches you how to:

  • Use DP to be a more effective therapist and supervisor

  • Hear client and supervisee challenges with greater clarity

  • Target specific areas where you get stuck with clients and supervisees

  • Provide effective performance feedback

  • Practice skills for specific models and common therapy factors

  • Use DP to develop the “Person of the Therapist” and therapist self-awareness

This group is appropriate for BOTH supervisors and clinicians. Licensed and unlicensed clinicians are welcome.

When: The group meets for 1 hour- 12:00-1:00 pm PT on select Fridays

Where: Zoom

Cost: $60 for 1 hour, $300 for 5 hours, $600 for 10 hours

Group Size: Group is limited to 10 participants.

Group Leaders

MacKenzie Stuart, LMFT

Senior Deliberate Practice Trainer and Faculty

MacKenzie Stuart, LMFT, is a Senior Deliberate Practice Trainer and Faculty at Sentio. She is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist who works with adults, couples, partners, and families. She specializes in nontraditional relationship structures, including polyamory and other forms of consensual nonmonogamy, as well as chronic depression and suicidality. Her other clinical interests include psychosis, psychopharmacology and drugs, LGBTQIA2-S and GNC/non-binary communities, kink and BDSM practices, and sex work. MacKenzie enjoys psychodynamic case conceptualization, the enneagram, biofeedback, narrative and solution-focused interventions, and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) and cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) skills. She is a member of core faculty at The Wright Institute in Berkeley and leads a private practice in Alameda.

Jason Brand, LCSW

Senior Deliberate Practice Trainer 

Jason Brand, LCSW is a Senior Deliberate Practice Trainer at Sentio University. He is certified in Deliberate Practice Supervision through the International Deliberate Practice Society. In his private psychotherapy practice Jason specializes in supporting the growth and development of men in an increasingly complex world. His work with men includes facilitating a group for fathers of young children. In his couples work, he is certified in PACT (The Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy) and serves as a faculty member at the PACT Institute. Jason lives in Berkeley with his wife of twenty years and their two teenage daughters. Find out more about Jason on his website: www.jasonbrand.com

Deliberate Practice Supervision in Action