Homeoffice Austen Riggs Online IOP Psychodynamic Psychotherapy Training Certificate Program- 2026 bei The Austen Riggs Center Inc

Description

The Erikson Institute for Education, Research, and Advocacy of the Austen Riggs Center offers a nine-month, fully online IOP psychodynamic psychotherapy training certificate program for doctoral-level clinicians in the state of Massachusetts or licensed clinical social workers in the state of Massachusetts beginning in February of 2026.

Participants in the certificate program will receive a stipend of $3,900 and can expect to:

• Increase their professional and clinical expertise in helping patients negotiate developmental tasks of young adulthood
• Develop the ability to make psychodynamic formulations and to use these formulations to frame the task of intensive short-term therapy
• Experience and learn the benefits of working within a psychodynamic team approach

The program features five hours a week of psychotherapy training and didactics related to treating a young adult population using a developmental and psychodynamic team approach. Participants carry a caseload of one patient enrolled in the Online IOP whom they see twice weekly for a minimum of six weeks (and up to several months).

Participants will join one 50-minute team meeting per week, and attend a weekly course seminar taught by Austen Riggs Center staff. In addition, participants present their work with their patients at case conferences, utilizing supervision support to formulate the case and present the therapy work.

Training Seminars will cover the following:

• Key concepts in Psychodynamic Theory
• Beginning treatment: Boundaries, role, and the frame
• Psychoanalytic diagnosis: How development interacts with character structure, conflicts, and defenses
• Technique + supporting research
• Psychodynamic formulation and therapeutic action
• Psychodynamic team approach to integrated treatment

All meetings are conducted over Zoom (all times Eastern). Seminars take place on Monday from 5:30-6:30 p.m. Team meetings are on Wednesdays at 11:30 a.m. and patients are seen on Tuesdays and Fridays at a mutually workable time. Supervision times are determined by the participant and their supervisor.

Participants may elect to attend group supervision on Fridays at 9:30 a.m. and have access to the Austen Riggs Center online library. Participants are eligible to receive continuing education credits from the seminars and a program certificate.

Requirements

• Must be a doctoral-level clinician in the state of Massachusetts or licensed clinical social worker in the state of Massachusetts 
• Must have malpractice insurance
• Must have an interest in psychodynamic psychotherapy, young adult populations, and a team approach to treatment

To apply please submit the following:

• Completed online application
• Letter of interest
• Curriculum vitae
• Three references
• Graduate Transcripts
• Copy of professional license
• Copy of malpractice insurance