Introduction to Relational Psychotherapy Integration
With Lainie Goldwert, PhD
September 15 - 29, 1pm-3pm
This course is grounded in the evidence-supported belief that the intentional integration of multiple therapeutic modalities enhances a practitioner’s clinical flexibility, creativity, and resourcefulness—allowing for more responsive, tailored, and effective work with diverse clients.
This introductory course is part of the PIP certificate program but is open to anyone interested in the art of psychotherapy integration. Covering psychotherapy integration from a relational psychodynamic perspective, we review relevant history, basic concepts, and diverse approaches like common factors and assimilative integration. Ideas are discussed in relation to therapeutic action and the ways people change in therapy, helping students develop a coherent, disciplined integrative practice. Note that the course does not teach specific modalities (which can be learned through other PIP courses during the year), but we will discuss clinical examples along with works by leading psychoanalytic integrationists such as Bresler, Frank, Gold, Safran, Bucci, and Wachtel.
The course is taught on Mondays from 1:00 to 2:50, September 15, 22, and 29, 2025.
Introduction to Current Trends in Couple Therapy: Integrative Relational Perspective
With Michal Seligman, PsyD
September 30 - October 28, 10:30am-12:00pm
Couple therapy as a field has developed to include multiple models of therapy. In spite of significant differences, the integration of some models of couple therapies and techniques has been practiced over the years with great success. This course will review the history of couple therapy, introduce the psychoanalytic couple therapy model, and focus on four of the current influential couple therapists and theorists; John Gottman, Dan Wile, Sue Johnson, and Esther Perel. We will explore models of aggression and conflict in couples as well as love and sexuality. Lastly, a purely behavioral, non-psychoanalytic, approach to the issue of problematic substance use in couples will be presented as a contrast. Couple therapy, to quote Sue Johnson, is “for people from all walks of life and all cultures; everyone on this planet has the same basic need for connection”. The models and principles that will be presented apply to couples independent of their gender identifications, sexual orientations, race, culture, and even individual diagnoses.
Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy
With Michael Mondoro, LCSW
October 6 - December 1, 1:00pm - 3:00pm
This 8-week course introduces clinicians to the core theory and practice of Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy (AEDP), a healing-oriented model grounded in attachment theory, emotion theory, somatic therapies, and interpersonal neuroscience. AEDP aims not only to alleviate suffering, but to activate transformational processes and support flourishing. Participants will learn to apply key interventions — such as undoing aloneness, dyadic regulation, experiential focusing, Transformance detection, and the metaprocessing of transformational affect — within a relational frame. The course emphasizes moment-to-moment somatic tracking, relational parts work, and the co-creation of reparative emotional experiences. Learning modalities include readings, didactic material, clinical video, and experiential exercises, with opportunities to consider how best to adapt and integrate AEDP interventions into your existing practice.
How Affect Organizes the Mind: Implications for Clinicians
With Daniel Hill, PhD
October 18 · 10:00am - 1:00pm
Psychoanalysis is undergoing a quiet revolution. Increasingly, affect is being recognized as the central organizing force of mental life. In this timely and compelling lecture, distinguished author, scholar, and clinician Dr. Dan Hill draws from his forthcoming sequel to the acclaimed Affect Regulation Theory to deepen our understanding of how affect shapes the mind—and how we engage it in clinical practice. Building on the work of Damasio, Fonagy, Schore, and others, as well as his own influential contributions, Dr. Hill will examine the nature and regulation of affect, present a neuroscience-informed model of implicit and explicit mental processes, and show how these systems generate starkly different subjective realities. For clinicians, this lecture offers essential insight into the affective foundations of psychic life—and a powerful lens through which to view psychoanalysis as a dynamic, evolving discipline responsive to contemporary science and clinical need.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is approved by the American Psychological Association to offer continuing education credits for psychologists. The National Institute for the Psychotherapies maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Social Work as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed social workers #SW-0018.
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The National Institute for the Psychotherapies is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed psychologists #PSY-0131.
National Institute for the Psychotherapies (NIP) is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Mental Health Practitioners as an approved provider of continuing education for licensed mental health counselors. #MHC-0059.
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