As a Washington State-approved supervisor, I provide consultation to psychotherapists.  I'm especially interested in working with analytic and psychodynamic thinkers, as well as those interested in incorporating mindful experience into their work with patients.  I am willing to provide a one-time consultation or ongoing support.

 

Through my experience as a certified Balint Group Leader for case consultation groups, I have learned to help clinicians explore their dilemmas with patients, leading to increased empathy and improved treatment outcomes.  ​

 

About Balint work: Balint case consultation was developed to help primary care physicians understand and work through challenging aspects of their clinical relationships with patients, helping them to “unstick” aspects of their care through a more profound understanding of the patient-provider relationship. Balint groups have a broad application to all clinical settings, including ongoing psychotherapeutic work.

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Balint group work builds community and support for our professional selves as clinicians and is neither aimed at providing clinical supervision nor imparting technical treatment advice. Instead, the group works together to offer the case presenter speculations and reflections about the relationship between the clinician and the patient. This enhances the clinician's capacity for empathy and opens their mind to new ways of understanding and responding to their patients.

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By gently and non-intrusively exploring the relational dynamics (transference and countertransference dynamics) in down-to-earth, experience-near ways, Balint groups help cultivate a clinician’s imaginative comprehension of the patient's whole experience, which in turn expands their creative options for engaging in the treatment relationship.

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Celebrating collective wisdom: Balint Group starting Oct. 2026

 

Balint Group for case presentation: Supporting clinicians in reconnecting with their passion for their work, preventing burnout, and increasing positive outcomes for patients.

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Attention clinicians: Psychotherapists, Psychologists, Counselors, Social Workers, MDs, Nurses, Psychoanalysts, MD-psychotherapists

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Trevor Slocum, MA, and Kris Wheeler, MA, both credentialed Balint Group leaders with the American Balint Society, will be offering a Balint Group starting this autumn.  

 

The dates are mostly 2nd and 4th Monday evenings at 7 pm Pacific over Zoom.

 

There will be two upcoming rounds: Autumn (5 groups) and Winter/Spring (10 groups). 

 

Autumn 2026                  Fee: $175

 

Dates: 10/12, 10/26, 11/9, 11/23,12/14 

 

Winter/Spring 2027        Fee: $350

  

Dates: 1/11, 1/25, 2/8, 2/22, 3/8, 3/22, 3/29, 4/12, 4/26, 5/10

 

You are invited to join one or both.

 

This consultation group is facilitated to focus attention on felt experience as we imagine what it is like to be the patient and the practitioner in their treatment relationship.  The conversation remains experience-near and though we don't explicitly use the words transference and countertransference, this orientation to consultation is a unique way to discover and explore exactly that phenomenon.  

 

Finding the language of empathy for both parties engaged in the therapeutic endeavor, rather than offering a treatment strategy, respects the presenting practitioner's clinical acumen and supports deepening of the treatment.  This focus requires discipline, and exercising this discipline cultivates emotional intelligence and intimate engagement in the healing relationships of all participants.

 

Contact either one of us if you have questions or want to register.

 

Trevor Slocum, trevor@slocumcounseling.com

Kris Wheeler, kris@kriswheeler.com

 

Trevor Slocum, MA, is a credentialed Balint group leader with the American Balint Society and has led Balint groups since the pandemic, mainly for psychotherapists but also for collaborative divorce attorneys. He has been faculty for a Balint Group Leadership Intensive, and has been in private psychoanalytic psychotherapy practice for 20 years, currently in North Seattle.

 

Kris Wheeler, MA, credentialed supervisor with the American Balint Society, maintains a private practice in NE Seattle.  She has been a teacher of psychoanalytic psychotherapy for 30+ years and currently teaches through the Center for Object Relations as well as with the American Balint Society. 

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Collaborative Divorce Attorneys and Professionals: Balint Group Starting Fall 2026
 

Balint Group for Collaborative Professionals: Co-lead by Trevor Slocum and Joanna Roth of the Family Transition Center.

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Monthly, every third Tuesday afternoon from 12 to 1:15 pm.

Starting September 22nd, 2026, through June 15th, 2027.

For more info visit: Family Transition Center

To join, contact Joanna Roth by email: info@familytransitioncenter.org or by calling: 206 489-4986.

Taking Referrals?
 

I am interested in building a referral list and networking with other psychotherapists and health care providers in Seattle.  I believe a carefully thought-through referral can make the healing process come to life.  If you are interested in being on my referral list, feel free to contact me.

I am especially interested in networking with holistic health providers, including but not limited to:
 

• MDs and specialists interested in psychosomatic conditions 

• Naturopathic medical providers, NDs

• Psychotherapeutically or psychoanalytically-oriented psychiatrists and ARNPs

• Neurologists

• Nutritionists

• Traditional medicine and Acupuncturists

• Massage and yoga therapists