Training Programs

About IRPP

Our programs are designed for therapists who have completed graduate training in psychology, social work, counseling, or psychiatry, who seek to deepen and expand their therapeutic work.  As a relational school, we have focused, from our beginning in 2007, on the ways in which each therapeutic encounter is inherently a meeting of two people; the heart of working in this way is a reflective co-participation. Both persons bring aspects of which we are unaware, which will be evoked in interaction, and our training is focused on fostering ongoing development of this capacity to reflect on what is happening in both people while being a part of what is taking place.  (Refer also to History embedded in About IRPP)

Like most psychoanalytic institutions, we are marked by persistent whiteness, and this makes us complicit in the insidiousness of racism in its many manifestations. This whiteness limits the contributions to how we think, the nature of our own community, and the people whom we serve.  We have been working to challenge ourselves, making changes to our mission and curriculum and working to increase the diversity of our community; however, we recognize we have a great deal more to do. We are engaged in a number of initiatives within the institute, and we invite applicants who are committed to this necessarily broadening vision of relational psychoanalysis. 

Training Model

IRPP has offered a variety of training options for clinicians interested in learning more about relational psychoanalytic work.  In addition to the full psychoanalytic training program that concludes in a Certificate in Psychoanalysis, we have also offered shorter programs, including a two year didactic-only program for those who do not wish to complete the full training but want some advanced exposure to relational psychoanalytic ways of thinking and practicing.  We have also offered a Child and Family Training for those interested in developing more specific experience and skill working in those modalities.

We are continually learning from our efforts in pursuing our mission of offering psychoanalytic training and are especially excited by the opportunities to grow from our recent training efforts with our 8th cohort of trainees, a diverse group of clinicians who have pursued completion of each of these various programs.  As this most recent cohort of trainees nears completion of their programs, we are preparing to accept a new, 9th cohort of trainees for only our four year full psychoanalytic training.

In the future, we will be announcing alternative opportunities for training.  For more information about the four year training program, click on the tab "Four Year Analytic Training Curriculum."