ISTDP Supervision

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Looking to improve clinical skills as a Therapist?  

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Both my parents were educators; my father a high school teacher and my mother a language Instructor in Spanish and Italian.  

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Over the years, before entering the mental health field in 2008, I worked in a variety of educational settings. In my younger years I coached youth sports, taught English abroad in China, and obtained my substitute teacher permit working with elementary and junior high-aged children.  Years after completing graduate school, from 2016-2021 I was Adjunct Faculty with the California State University, Los Angeles School of Social Work, teaching both undergraduate and graduate-level courses.  

I've completed 3-years of "Training of ISTDP Trainers" with Jon Frederickson, MSW of the ISTDP Institue.  Over the past 10 years I've given a variety of presentations on ISTDP and Psychotherapy in both clinical and academic settings, and recently presented my framework, "The Triangle of Vitality," at the 2024 International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association's conference in San Diego. 

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Supervisees must have video taped clinical work in order to receive ISTDP supervision.  

ISTDP Supervision can help you:

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• Think clinically vs. reflexively.

• Build Confidence in yourself!

• Improve capacity to co-create an internal, emotionally focused therapy 

• Track and work the Triangle of Conflict 

• Develop and improve Psychodiagnosis 

• Assess and regulate symptoms of Anxiety 

• Improve defense work (identify various resistances)

• Improve capacity to work within the transference

• Increase capacity to invite and work with higher levels of affect

• Work with countertransference

• Learn more about Psychodynamic Principles such as: transference, enactment, unconscious vs. conscious, and conflict