April 9, 2019
Child & Adolescent Trauma Seminar
Wednesdays, April 3, 2019 to June 4th, 2019 at 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm
Child & Adolescent Trauma Seminar
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10107
The Child and Adolescent Program at NIP considers Childhood Trauma to be the silent public health epidemic of our decade and is pleased to announce a new ten-week evidence-informed program designed to help you feel more grounded in ways to work with children that have experienced trauma. It is well documented that interpersonal, environmental and systemic trauma causes toxic stress in developing children and can impact a child's developing brain and body so that they are more at risk of developing mental illness and chronic illness, which can ultimately lead to early death. Even though as clinicians we know this, we also know clinicians describe feeling helpless and overwhelmed when children present with trauma responses.
Participants will be introduced to the foundational underpinnings of trauma and gain a deeper understanding of the ways in which trauma impacts child development, the family and family dynamics. This program is designed to provide you with skills and tools to help our child clients manage and lessen their trauma reactions and restore them to a path of healthy development.
Lectures will include introductions to evidence informed methods of working with children that have experienced violence within a psychoanalytic framework that is designed to heal the attachment ruptures and dysregulation that result from exposure to trauma. Participants will gain transferable skills to manage trauma responses that can be integrated into their current practices.
The program will begin Wednesday, April 3rd and will end Wednesday, June 4th. Each Wednesday evening class will begin at 6:30pm and end at 9:00pm. The cost for the ten weeks will be $900. It will be held at the NIP offices at 250 West 57th street, room 501.
This class is approved for 25.0 CE contact hours for social workers, psychologists, licensed psychoanalysts and licensed mental health counselors.
Learning Objectives
The learning objectives include:
Learning about the theoretical underpinnings of the Group Attachment Based Intervention (GABI), as well as evidence of the effectiveness of this intervention.
Understanding the effects of complex trauma on the parent-child relationship and child development.
Learning a comprehensive approach and specific techniques for delivering effective therapeutic interventions for a dyad exposed to trauma.
Colette Linnihan LCSW is a certified psychoanalyst from the Mid- Manhattan Institute of Psychoanalysis and Group therapy. An EMDR Consultant, she introduced EMDR into her practice in 1998. In addition, she has pursued extensive training in AEDP (Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy), IFS (Internal Family Systems) and Coherence Therapy. She has been on the faculty of the NIP Trauma Studies now, the Integrative Trauma Treatment Program, from 2011 to the present and maintains a private practice on the Upper West Side.
Hannah Knafo, Ph.D. is a New York State Licensed Psychologist. She earned her doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from The New School for Social Research in New York City. Dr. Knafo completed her pre-doctoral internship and post-doctoral training at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine/Montefiore Medical Center. She currently works as a clinical psychologist at the Rose F. Kennedy Children’s Evaluation and Rehabilitation Center (RFK-CERC) at Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx, NY where she conducts family therapy, individual psychotherapy (with parents), dyadic therapy, and play therapy. Dr. Knafo is also on faculty at Albert Einstein College of Medicine, and supervises and trains psychology graduate students, psychiatry fellows, and medical residents in trauma-informed treatment of vulnerable families.
Tara Starin-Basi, LCSW is the Co-Director of the Child & Adolescent Relational One-Year Certificate Program, a Clinical Supervisor at a Safe Horizon Counseling Center and a Couple and Family therapist at Ackerman Institute for the Family. She has over 15 years of experience in community-based agencies serving under-resourced communities and families that have also experienced complex trauma. She is trained and trains others in multiple trauma focused evidence-based treatments.
Robin Donath, LCSW is the Co-Director of the Child & Adolescent Relational One-Year Certificate Program, and is an Assistant Adjunct Professor at the NYU Silver School of Social Work. She is a graduate of NIP’s Three Year Child & Adolescent Psychoanalytic Training Program. She has a private practice in New York City where she sees children, adolescents, and adults.
Continuing Education
This event is approved for 25.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, and licensed mental health counselors:
In order to receive CE credits, you cannot arrive more than 15 minutes late to each session or leave 15 minutes to each session. If you miss one session, you will receive partial credit at the discretion of the instructor. No credits will be given if more than one session is missed.
This live in-person course is approved for CE credits for Pscyhologists, Psychoanalysts, LMHCs, LMSWs and LCSWs.
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.
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 psychoanalysts #Psyan-0004.
Refunds, & Cancellation Policy
No refunds for partial attendance. Refunds will be given up to a week prior to the first session.
April 11, 2019
NIP Open House
Thursday, April 11, 2019; 6:30 - 9:00 PM
Saturday, April 27, 2019; 1:00 - 3:30 PM
NIP Open House
National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
Conference Room
New York, NY 10107
Learn about our training programs in Contemporary Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy:
Four Year Adult Program
License Qualifying Program
One Year Child and Adolescent Program (4/11 only)
One Year Psychodynamic Program
Hear a stimulating clinical case presentation and discussion illustrating our unique approach to psychoanalytic training. Discover how analytic thought can deepen and transform your clinical work.
Meet faculty, supervisors, current candidates, alumni, and board members in informal, small group discussions.
Learn about admissions criteria, training requirements and curricula.
Discover our inclusive community.
What is psychoanalytic training?
When you think of psychoanalysis, does it bring to mind a New Yorker cartoon of a bearded man sitting behind a couch while a patient free associates? That caricature bears almost no resemblance to today’s psychoanalysis. Contemporary psychoanalysis is a vital, interactive psychotherapy that emphasizes a collaborative relationship built on authentic expression and mutual respect. Today’s psychoanalysis is no antiquated theory but a vibrant, ever-evolving way of understanding people’s inner worlds and the complexities of human relationships. Training in psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis fosters deep access into the elaborate networks that make up mental life, illuminating and loosening entrenched patterns of behavior and fostering the growth of new ones, leading to profound, long-lasting change. In addition to enhancing clinical skills and expanding intellectual understanding, psychoanalytic training brings about life-altering self knowledge and psychological development in the trainee, helping him or her cultivate a unique, authentic, and actualized clinical voice.
Why Train at NIP?
Training in psychoanalysis and psychodynamic psychotherapy is both didactic and experiential, creating a powerful immersive experience that promotes personal and professional development. NIP’s approach to training is unique in its comprehensiveness and attention to the needs of each candidate. The psychoanalytic training program consists of classes in theory and technique; direct clinical work with patients under expert clinical supervision; and personal psychoanalysis. Our didactic courses are taught by a highly esteemed faculty who are well known in the field for their publications, presentations and leadership in professional organizations. The faculty’s expertise and the small class size foster an atmosphere of intellectual curiosity and creative dialogue that contributes to an intense, scholarly, and in-depth educational experience. The extensive curriculum includes a thorough history of traditional psychoanalytic thought, from its Freudian origins up through the latest contemporary developments in neuroscience and attachment theory. NIP’s program of study foregrounds cutting edge approaches to therapeutic action, encompassing contemporary Freudian, object relational, interpersonal, and self psychological theories with a strong emphasis on contemporary relational psychoanalysis. In addition, trainees benefit from a strong, warm, vibrant community dedicated to ongoing learning and professional development. Now in its fifth decade, NIP enjoys an international reputation of clinical and scholarly excellence, a thriving in-house treatment center, and the ongoing, dedicated involvement of its many distinguished alumni.
PRESENTER:
Merav Ben-Horin, LCSW, RYT, is a psychoanalyst and yoga and meditation teacher. She completed her BA in Psychology at Hunter College, her MSW at NYU, and her psychoanalytic training at NIP, where she received the Educators Award for outstanding scholarly contribution. She practices in Manhattan, integrating therapeutic yoga and mindfulness within an analytic framework, teaches yoga for emotional well-being and trauma relief, and leads retreats worldwide.
DISCUSSANT:
Sarah Hill, LCSW, RCST, is a psychoanalyst and craniosacral therapist in private practice in New York City. She teaches an ongoing course at Union Theological Seminary called Psychoanalysis, Race, and Culture. She is also a faculty member at NIP and at the Stephen Mitchell Center for Relational Studies, as well as a consultant at the Center for Spirituality and Mental Health in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. www.sarahhilltherapy.com
April 14, 2019
Interpersonal Treatment of Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating and Body Image Issues
Sunday, April 14, 2019
11:00 am – 1:30 pm
Presented by:
Jean Petrucelli, PhD
Interpersonal Treatment of Eating Disorders, Disordered Eating and Body Image Issues: Integrating Neurobiology, Attachment, Affect Regulation and Clinical Conundrums
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10107
Much contemporary analytic thinking focuses on how to allow patients to voice threatening aspects of self and body, often not encoded in words. For those suffering from eating disorders, disavowed longings are experienced as insatiable, powerful, and dangerous, with an excess of energy and self invested in vigilantly measuring ways of living which lack spontaneity, creativity, or play. Symptoms concretize and defend against the danger inherent in any intimate exchange, which requires tolerance for uncertainty and vulnerability, beyond these patient's reach. Using clinical material, a detailed, practical exploration of how one works analytically with ED patients beyond symptom alleviation will be explored. Understanding cultural influence, neurobiology, attachment theory, self-regulation, affect regulation, self-states, body-states, and the intergenerational transmission of body image issues will be considered.
Jean Petrucelli, Ph.D. is a Supervising Analyst, Faculty, Director & Co-Founder of the Eating Disorders, Compulsions and Addictions Service and Educational Program(EDCAS); at The William Alanson White Institute; Faculty at NYU Postdoctoral Program and the Institute for Contemporary Psychology (ICP); Associate editor for Contemporary Psychoanalysis; Editor of five books: including winner of the American Board and Academy of Psychoanalysis (ABAPsa) 2016 Edited Book, Body-States: Interpersonal and Relational Perspectives on the Treatment of Eating Disorders (Routledge,2015).
Continuing Education
NIPPA Focus Seminars do not offer CE hours.
The event is free, but pre-registration is required.
April 17, 2019
ITP Open House
Wednesday, April 17, 2019; 7:00 - 9:00 PM
Integrative Trauma Program Open House
National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
Conference Room
New York, NY 10107
You are invited to attend the Integrative Trauma Program's (ITP) Open House, where faculty members, supervisors, and administrators will welcome you and introduce NIP's trauma training options.
The Open House will include information on:
• The Certificate Program in Integrative Trauma Studies (9 months, CE credits available)
• The Integrative Trauma Program's Clinical Affiliate Program (Supervised clinical practice opportunity)
Hear a stimulating clinical case presentation that illustrates our unique approach to integrative trauma treatment. You are welcome to join the Q & A and discussion that follows the presentation.
For additional information about the Integrative Trauma Program:
https://nipinst.org/integrative-trauma-program-details
Questions? (212) 582-1566 or info@nipinst.org
April 25, 2019
What You Eat and What’s Eating You
Thursday, April 25, 2019
7:00pm - 9:00pm
Presented by:
Pamela Thorp, LCSW
What You Eat and What’s Eating You: The Gut-Brain Connection-Considerations in the Treatment of Trauma
The National Institute for the Psychotherapies
250 West 57th Street, Suite 501
New York, NY 10107
Over the past few decades scientists have discovered there is direct communication between the gut and the brain. Embryologically the two start out at the same point. Then one goes up and one goes down. Cells that begin in such close relationship retain a lifelong memory of each other and the bidirectional highway that runs between them is trafficked by a constant stream of messages. The complex and multifaceted aspects of the gut-brain axis not only ensures proper maintenance and regulation of the gastrointestinal system, but has profound impact on mood, behavior and higher cognitive functions.
This presentation will speak to the importance of understanding the relationship between the gut and the brain, and the impact of food on mood. As integrative clinicians working with trauma this topic is of particular relevance, as attention is paid to both cerebral cognitive activity as well as to limbic, bodily experience. Helping patients bring balance to the system is of forefront importance in trauma-informed work, and nutrition can be enemy or ally in the service of restoring equilibrium and harmony to the whole being.
Learning Objectives:
Educate the clinician on the basic science of the brain-gut axis and its importance in regulating stress-related response, how neurotransmitters function and communication between the two systems occur.
Participants will learn about the importance of the microbiome, the organisms that inhabit it and their impact on mood and behavior.
The introduction of this topic into any clinical work should be considered on a case-by-case basis. Discussion around who, how and when to bring it into a treatment will be addressed and include case examples that provide demonstration of how this might be done.
Participants will leave with a basic idea of foods that both inflame the stress response and regulate it. Boundaries around scope of practice will also be addressed.
Presenter Bio
Pamela Thorp, LCSW is an Integrative Psychotherapist who combines concepts from Psychoanalysis, EMDR, Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction and Energy Psychology in her work. She got her MSW from Wurzweiler School of Social Work in 1988 and completed her institute training at National Institute for the Psychotherapies in 1994. She has taught in NIP’s analytic training program and supervises in both the analytic and trauma training tracks, and is an active participant on the Integrative Trauma Program’s Executive Committee. She has also served as faculty in the Continuing Education Program at The Mount Sinai Medical Center.
Pam is an EMDRIA Approved Consultant, an advanced EFT Practitioner and certified by The Institute for Integrative Nutrition as a Health Coach. She has been in private practice in NYC for thirty years and loves her work.
Continuing Education
This event is approved for 2.0 CE contact hours for psychologists, social workers, licensed psychoanalysts, and licensed mental health clinicians:
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.
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 psychoanalysts #Psyan-0004.
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.
Personalized CE certificates will be distributed at the end of this event. Due to New York State requirements, persons arriving more than 15 minutes late or leaving more than 15 minutes early will not receive a CE certificate.
Fees
$50 General Public
$40 Candidates & Students
$10 NIP Candidates
Refunds, & Cancellation Policy
Cancellation requests made more than a week prior to the event will be given a full refund of registration fees. Refunds will not be granted for cancellation requests made within a week of the event or for no-shows on the day of the event.