ISTDP Pre-Core Training (Limit 8 Spots)

Pre-Core Training is intended to introduce and immerse trainees in the fundamental principles of ISTDP psychology.  ISTDP Pre-Core trainings are held with a space of total non judement/acceptance that new learning invokes anxiety!

We will laugh and support one another through experiential skill building exercises that are designed to synthesize the concepts learned during the lecture components of the training. Some of the main clinical concepts you will learn to put into practice 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
• Identifying and working with anxiety and defenses in the face of efforts to establish a working therapeutic alliance
• Assessing and Regulating Anxiety of Patients: the biophysiology of Anxiety
• Moment-to-moment assessment and intervention of Defense: how to identify and address defenses

This trianing aims to raise your own affect tolerance, promote positive anxiety regulation, and compassion/patience for ourselves as we learn and grow as therapists. An emphasis is placed on learning to think clinically vs. ritualistically or reflexively.

Schedule:

Friday September 6th - Sunday September 8th

Training Cost: $650 USD, please send a $100 to hold your spot,  paid by Venmo, Zelle, or Paypal (using friends/family option)

Each day will follow the same time frame

9 am - 4 pm (with 1 hour lunch)

The flow of each day will be slightly different but will follow a similar pattern of :Didactic lecture followed by group processing and integration, experiential skill building exercises, group processing and integration.  Some psychotherapy videos will be used as a teaching tool.

A daily schedule and materials will be e-mailed to the group prior to the start of the training.