Continuing Education Events
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.
*Please note: not all events that provide CEs are eligible for LMHCs.
Please read the details for each event's CE eligibility
Annual Conference
Each year, NIP hosts a full-day conference, featuring world-renowned presenters on current psychoanalytic topics. Recent conferences have focused on dreams, integration, dialogues on therapeutic action, psychoanalytic perspectives on reproduction, the immigrant in the consulting room, and mortality.
The Generative Action of Psychoanalysis: Comparative Discussions and Clinical Explorations
Jessica Benjamin, PhD; Robert Grossmark, PhD; Irwin Hirsch, PhD; Estelle Shane, PhD; and a clinical presentation by Rachel Sopher, LCSW
Saturday, March 11, 2017; 9:00 am - 3:30 pm
4.5 CE contact hours
Advanced CE Workshops
The NIP Advanced Continuing Education Program offers a series of unique professional workshops addressing key clinical issues and controversies featuring leading contributors to psychoanalysis and related fields. These events are particularly geared toward psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic candidates, as well as those interested in analytic training.
Dramatic Dialogue: Contemporary Clinical Practice
Lewis Aron, PhD, ABPP & Galit Atlas, PhD
Saturday, October 1, 2016; 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
4 CE contact hours
Playing with the Unconscious
Joseph Newirth, PhD
Saturday, December 3, 2016; 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
4 CE contact hours
The Suffering Stranger - CANCELLED
Donna Orange, PhD, PsyD
Saturday, January 28, 2017; 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
Infant Research and Adult Treatment
Beatrice Beebe, PhD
Wednesday, March 1, 2017; 7:15 - 10:15 pm
3 CE contact hours
Micro-Traumatic Experience
Margaret Crastnopol, PhD
Saturday, March 25, 2017; 10:00 am - 3:00 pm
4 CE contact hours
CE Seminars
The NIP Seminar Series offers analytically-focused continuing education seminars for those seeking CE contact hours to fulfill New York State social work and licensed psychoanalyst licensing requirements.
The Psychoanalytic Blackboard
Mindy Utay, LCSW, JD
Thursday, May 11, 2017; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
Sexual Avoidance, Dysfunction, and Malaise
Leora Manischewitz, PsyD
Thursday, June 8, 2017; 7:30 - 9:30 pm
2 CE contact hours
Enhancing Sexual Expression, Desire, and Performance
Leora Manischewitz, PsyD
Thursday, June 15, 2017; 7:30 - 9:30 pm
2 CE contact hours
Integrative Trauma Program
The NIP Integrative Trauma Program is a professional community dedicated to the exploration, understanding, teaching, and clinical treatment of traumatic experience. Colloquia presentations and Integrative Trauma Courses, on a range of specialized topics relevant to trauma, are offered by experts in trauma treatment.
Racism as Trauma: Clinical Considerations & Conceptualizations
Boris Thomas, JD, PhD, LCSW-R
Thursday, October 20, 2016; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
Moving Through Therapeutic Impasses with Trauma Clients
Monica C. Blum, PhD
Thursday, January 12, 2017; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
Understanding and Treating Adult Onset Trauma
Ghislaine Boulanger, PhD
Thursday, February 23, 2017; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
Working with Highly Dissociative Clients
Elizabeth Howell, PhD
Thursday, March 30, 2017; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
Integrative Trauma Course
Focusing - Cancelled
Anna Christensen, LCSW
8 Tuesdays, March 14 - May 2, 2017; 2:00 - 3:30 pm
12 CE contact hours
Psychotherapy Integration Program
The NIP Psychotherapy Integration Program (PIP) is a unique advanced training program for psychodynamic practitioners who are interested in integrating other treatment modalities into a baseline relational psychoanalytic approach. Workshops, presented by leaders in the field of integration, include a wide range of topics relevant to current thought and practice in relational integration. All mental health professionals interested in broadening their concept of relational practice are invited to attend.
Working Integratively: Evolving Models of Therapeutic Action
Kenneth A. Frank, PhD
Thursday, October 13, 2016; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
Beyond Words: The Procedural Dimension in Integrative Psychotherapy
Paul L. Wachtel, PhD
Thursday, January 26, 2017; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
Thinking about Thinking: Multiple Approaches to Awareness
Jill Bresler, PhD
Thursday, April 27, 2017; 7:00 - 9:00 pm
2 CE contact hours
NIP Professional Association Events
NIPPA Fall Colloquium
What's Good Got To Do With It?: Conceiving a New Perspective on Object Relations when Dealing with Trauma
Merav Ben-Horin; Discussants: Marc Sholes, LCSW & Neil Skolnick, PhD
Sunday, April 27, 2017; 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
2 CE contact hours
NIPPA Focus Seminars
This series is a sequence of seminars presented throughout the academic year, offering the NIP community the opportunity to present original papers, works in progress, or compelling case studies. These events are free, but pre-registration is required. CEs are not offered for these events.
The Dissociative Mind in Psychoanalysis
Elizabeth Howell, PhD & Sheldon Itzkowitz, PhD
Sunday, October 16, 2016; 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Analytic Coparticipation and Free Speech: Ethical Guidance from the Patient
Anton Hart, PhD
Sunday, November 13, 2016; 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Beyond Belief: Spirituality, Religion and Faith in Psychoanalysis
Lisa Cataldo, MDiv, PhD
Sunday, March 19, 2017; 11:00 am - 1:30 pm; RESCHEDULED
Mutual Vulnerability: Intimacy, Psychic Collisions, and the Shards of Trauma
Lauren Levine, PhD with Discussant Adrienne Harris, PhD
Sunday, February 12, 2017; 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
Siblings in the Room: The Forgotten Dimension
Allison Katz, LCSW with Discussant Susan Obrecht, LCSW
Sunday, April 2, 2017; 11:00 am - 1:30 pm
NIPPA Case Presentations
This series aims to foster clinical dialogue and community among analysts from various stages of their careers. Come join the clinical discussion as case material is presented and discussed in an open and informal conversational setting. These events are free, but pre-registration is required. No CEs are offered at these events.
Intentional Termination
Cora Goldfarb, LCAT, LP
Friday, March 10, 2017; 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Babe in Arms: Holding, Being Held and Letting Go in the Wake of War and Violence
Barbara D. Gilbert, LMSW
Friday, April 21, 2017; 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Other From Another Mother: A case study of the centrality of race in a psychoanalytic treatment
Rebecca Posner, LMSW
Friday, May 12, 2017; 6:00 - 8:00 pm
Creative Literary Salon
The Creative Salon — founded in 2011 by Bonnie Zindel, and inspired by Gertrude Stein's literary salon in Paris in the 1920s — presents creative evenings celebrating originality and imagination through, poetry, theater, film, music and song. The Salon is supported by NIP and NIPPA.
Thursday, March 16, 2017; 7:30 pm
Open Houses
NIP's Open Houses are offered annually and are open to those who are interested in NIP's psychoanalytic training options.
Thursday, March 9, 2017; 6:30 pm
Saturday, April 1, 2017; 1:00 pm
Thursday, April 20, 2017; 7:30 pm - Integrative Trauma Program Open House
Thursday, May 11, 2017; 7:00 pm - Psychotherapy Integration Program Open House
Practice Workshop
NIP's Paths to Private Practice Workshop is offered annually and is open to those who are interested in opening a private practice.
There is no event scheduled at this time.
