Charlotte Howorth, BSc, LCSW, ACC, has taught Focusing-Oriented Therapy for 25 years and practiced as an individual, couples, and group therapist for over 30 years, as well as an organizational psychologist for the last 15. She led The International Focusing Institute's two-year FOT certification course for twelve years - a role personally entrusted to her by Mary Hendricks, Eugene Gendlin's wife and the Institute's former director - and continued teaching it privately for six more. She has been a Lecturer in Social Work at Columbia University; former Clinical Director, and current Clinical Consultant for The Center for Human Development and Family Services, NYC; and is lead faculty of the Advanced Coaching Program for Interactualizer. She also teaches for FORGE, NYC (Focusing Oriented Relating in Group Environments), and has taught workshops internationally for the last 17 years.
Beginning Sept 2026 her latest offering is: Six Steps of Therapeutic Transformation with Charlotte Howorth, LCSW.
“Not technique - something subtler. In six live sessions, Charlotte maps the felt, relational movements beneath the words: the ground a session grows from, the moment a felt sense forms, the shift that carries new meaning forward.”
For therapists, coaches, and helping professionals looking to deepen their work.
More information below.
Register now for: What creates change in therapy? About the Course
THE SIX STEPS OF THERAPEUTIC TRANSFORMATION
6 class introductory series in Focusing-Oriented Conversations
with Charlotte Howorth LCSW
For therapists, counsellors, coaches, focusing practitioners and helping professionals who want to deepen their understanding of therapeutic change and the one interaction.
Biweekly - now starting October 4th · 135 minutes each
10 Social Works CEUs · $500
A therapy session is a kind of dance - between therapist and client, between the client and their own inner process, between what is known and what is only beginning to stir. Several tracks are often alive at once: the relational field, the emerging felt sense, the forward movement, the therapist's own resonance.
These workshops help you become more at home in that complexity - not by simplifying it, but by developing a richer feel for each of its dimensions - raising awareness, sensitivity and the skills to move in each.
Eugene Gendlin's six steps of focusing have long served as resonant handles into the subtle border between words and the larger dimension of the wordless. Inspired by them, I've developed a parallel set of six steps for Focusing Oriented Therapy - not a rigid protocol, but a map of the essential movements that make a session come alive. They're offered in Gendlin's spirit - not as technique, but as doorways into a process that is experiential, relational, and always unfolding.
We miss the essence of therapy when we reduce it to instructions. These workshops are about something else - the heart of Focusing Oriented Therapy - as a way of thinking and being. Not only what we do, but how, why, and from what place.
The Six Sessions
Each session includes:
October 4, October 18, November 1,
November 15, December 6, December 20
10:00am-12:15pm Eastern
Registration & Enquiries
Contact Charlotte directly: charlottehoworth@gmail.com
+1 (347) 489 9587 · www.charlottehoworth.com
Recent Past Teaching:
Entering the Mysteries of the Big Therapy Process For Focusing-Oriented Therapists and all those who offer deep, transformative support Course Outline: Each session will weave experiential learning, teaching, and space for reflection and integration. Through live sessions, experiential practices, and video clips we will enter together into the mysteries of this big process — not to solve or fix, but to deepen our capacity to be with. 2026 Course Schedule If you’ve felt called to explore the deeper potentials of your work — to move beyond tools and techniques into something more whole, more human, and more alive — this course is for you.
6 TWO-HOUR LIVE SESSIONS starting January 2026 (completed April 2026)
Please join me on a unique learning journey of the power of the healing relatedness of the therapeutic ‘us’. The larger unfolding relational process that Gendlin called “the big therapy process”. Designed for therapists, healers, and helpers of all kinds who have some familiarity with Focusing guiding &/or Focusing-Oriented Therapy (FOT) and are ready to explore the larger, unfolding process that Eugene Gendlin called "the big therapy process."
Class 1: The Therapeutic Us
Therapy is not a process that is within the client or the expertise of the therapist, but it is a process of unfolding the living interaction that we make together.
Class 2: Pointing, Making Something, & Right Distance
Unpacking the “something” together - allowing the implicit to speak, be more known and alive making what is implicit more known and alive while exploring the moment-to-moment dance together of making intimate contact without intrusion.
Class 3: Embodied listening and responding.
The complex art of sensing into the deeper point and of the kind of reflection that brings more of the felt sense, more aliveness, and more possibility?
Class 4: Asking into Forward Movement
Navigating the leading edge and trailing edge - and recognizing the difference.
Class 5: The New Was
How to work with the past experienced as a new living process in the present.
Class 6: It Fills Itself In
Trusting the process - how healing can touch even the deepest places, and how it’s never too late to grow, heal, and become more fully ourselves.
Sundays 10am-12pm EDT
Jan 25th, Feb 8th, March 1st,
March 15th, March 29th, April 12th
Fee: $500
I hope you’ll join me.
Contact Charlotte to arrange a time to speak and for more information
(2022-3)
One-Year Online
Advanced Course in How to Use Focusing in Therapeutic Conversations
and work with Your Felt Sense of the Client/Focuser and of the Relationship
For therapists, coaches, body workers and anyone who wants to bring focusing more seamlessly into their conversations who are already certified, or who have trained in the fundamentals of focusing.
Gene was a psychotherapist and most of his focusing work was within the faster more improvisational style of therapeutic conversations.
More information here.
contact us to arrange a time to speak with Charlotte and for more information
CLICK HERE FOR A FREE INTRODUCTORY CLASS
Sept 23 2019
You are invited to join us in our second year of
FOCUSING ORIENTED RELATIONAL PSYCHOTHERAPY
IN ACTION (FORPA)
A Biweekly Online Study Group for Therapists
lead by Charlotte Howorth and Lynn Preston
We have a few openings in our every other week online focusing oriented therapy study group. In this group we co-create the kind of learning experience that exemplifies and instances the focusing concepts and skills we are studying.
Focusing is known primarily as a transformative approach for helping our clients to access what they are experiencing beneath the level of their words and thoughts. Focusing enables clinicians to enliven and deepen counseling and psychotherapy by responding in such a way that can bring the conversation into the feelingful, immediacy of the present moment. What is less known is the ways in which a Focusing approach brings the therapy relationship alive. It provides understandings and skills that open up new pathways to deepening and empowering the healing partnership.
In this Zoom Online group we explore the “HOW TO” as well as the CONCEPTS that can nurture our work. In an atmosphere of open exploration we discuss readings, look at videos, do demonstrations and explore clinical challenges.
This group is helpful, not only for psychotherapists, but for counselors, coaches, body-oriented therapists, and spiritual advisers,
TOPICS
9/23 Forward Movement: Carrying the relationship forward – the new ‘us’.
10/7 Using resonance in sessions: The one interaction in action.
10/21 Focusing Conversations and encounters.
11/4 Asking into and pointing – making a something of the felt sense of the relationship.
11/25 Using the focusing conversation in therapy.
12/9 Focusing as the therapist – holding a few tracks at the same time in your awareness and helping to digest and carry forward for the client.
12/16 Case examples and summary.
STARTING DATE Sept 23 2019 but it is possible to join after this date.
TIME. 9:45 - 11:15
First Semester Seven 1 hour and 15 min classes biweekly
FEE: $280
TO REGISTER send a one paragraph introduction of yourself and a picture to FORPNY@gmail.com