Psychiatrists, Psychologists,
Psychotherapists, Clinical Counsellors
and Social workers…
Are you:
- Dismayed when clients who did well in therapy return again months or years later with the same problems, patterns and symptoms you treated them for originally?
- Struggling to make truly significant gains and breakthroughs with complicated or challenging patients?
- Frustrated by progress that seems to move at a glacial pace and wishing you could be more effective more quickly with patients?
- Overwhelmed by the number, intensity, or chronicity of patients’ repeatedly self-destructive behaviours—despite your best clinical efforts?
- Dissatisfied or bored after years of practice and yearning for more intellectual stimulation, expediency, precision, challenge, and meaning in your patient interactions?
- Doubting your self…or that therapy really produces long-lasting change?
Your practice doesn’t have to be this way! You can learn an empirically-validated, short-term, psychodynamic therapy to effectively address the challenges in your practice and to work confidently with even your “treatment-resistant” clients.
Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy (ISTDP) is a sound, research-based theory and technical practice that can help you become confident and assured in your clinical work. More importantly, you can be excited in your practice again!
ISTDP can help you:
- Utilize a simple, expedient assessment and diagnostic model to really help your clients effect change from the first session.
- Develop effective, precise interventions to deal with patients’ affect regulation and conscious and unconscious defenses.
- Determine which interventions to use and when by following a precise “roadmap” to unlocking core conflicts and “unblocking” your stalled therapies.
- Draw on transference and counter-transference from the outset of the therapy to accurately identify the patient’s relational dynamics and core attachment traumas and to effectively reduce (and often eliminate) acting out, boundary violations, problems at termination, etc.
- Ground and solidify your clinical practice in a meta-psychology continuously formed by the confluence of attachment theory, affect regulation, and neuroscience and backed by the results of long-term, research-based outcome studies.
- Achieve the skills to precisely work with clients—and to help them achieve meaningful, long-lasting change and improve their quality of life
- Expand your confidence in (and professional reputation for) successfully dealing with “difficult to treat” cases
- Stimulate your practice—achieving mastery in treating new problems and symptoms you might normally have referred on and being respected for and proudly satisfied for the quality work you do
West Coast Canada Institute for ISTDP is the only professional training program for Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy in Western Canada. Our mission is to not only advance the theory and practice of ISTDP—but to help you become the best clinical professional you can be.
At the West Coast Canada Institute for ISTDP, we are committed to bringing the top international clinicians, presenters, researchers and teachers to Vancouver and to create a “hot bed” of ISTDP-trained professionals here on the West Coast that can really help clients. Although ISTDP originates with Dr. Habib Davanloo’s forty years of clinical work in Montreal, the therapy is relatively unknown here on the West Coast. Yet training in ISTDP is widely sought after in Europe and in centres across the Unite States.
West Coast Canada Institute for ISTDP aims to change that by offering and developing a range of ISTDP training programs and events for the novice and seasoned professional alike:
- Introductory seminars on ISTDP Basics
- 1 and 2-day clinical case presentations with world-class clinicians
- Individual and group supervision with ISTDP clinicians and supervisors
- 3–year Foundation Clinical Training program
- 2-year Advanced Clinical Training program
- Summer School Immersion Courses
- Conferences…including co-hosting the International Experiential Dynamic Therapies Association Congress in 2010 (decision pending. Please sign up for our Experientia newsletter to be informed on the upcoming conference information).
Why ISTDP? What makes this type of psychotherapy and training so unique and exciting is that trainers, presenters, and students “walk their talk!” ISTDP is one of the only therapies that let’s the work speak for itself! No ISTDP presenter is going to simply tell you what happened during the therapy session. Instead they’ll show you–and you’ll see for yourself–how ISTDP methods were utilized and worked in actual case presentations. You’ll witness the high congruency between theory, practice, and outcome. And all training, teaching, and supervision at the West Coast Canada Institute for ISDTP will be done with video-taped presentations of actual client sessions. That’s our promise!
So Don’t Wait Another Minute for Your Practice to “just get better”
- If you want to take yourself and your patients to the next level in your clinical work, CLICK HERE to register for our first 1-Day Clinical Case Presentation with Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije October 17th, 2008.
- Click Here to AUDIT an ISTDP supervision session with Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije October 18th, 2008.
- Not quite sure if ISTDP is for you? Let the work, itself, convince you. Attend the 1-Day Clinical Case Presentation with Dr. Josette ten Have-de Labije or audit a trainee supervision session and see if this won’t qualitatively change the nature of your practice!
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