ISTDP Pre-Core Training (Limit 8 Spots)

Pre-Core Training is intended to introduce and immerse trainees in the fundamental principles of ISTDP psychology.  My pre-core trainings are held with a space of total non judement/acceptance that learning new things invokes anxiety!  We will giggle and laugh and support one another through experiential skill buidling exercises that are designed to synthesisze the conepts learned during the lecture components of the training. Some of the main concepts you will learn include understanding and integrating:

• The Triangle of Conflict: Feelings, Anxiety, Defenses

• The Triangle of Persons: Past attachment Figures, Current Attachment Figures, the Therapy attachment relationship

• Developing an Effective Therapeutic Focus during Inquiry of a new treatment 

• Identofying and working with anxiety and defeneses in the face of efforts to establish a working therapeutic alliance

• Assessing and Regulating Anxiety of Patients: the biophysiology of Anxiety