This IEDTA-certified 3-year ISTDP core group training offered in Aarhus, Denmark, is designed to provide participants with a strong foundation in the theory and practice of ISTDP. The IEDTA-certified programme is integrative in the sense that it integrates different directions within ISTDP, so that the clinical insights and techniques from Davanloo’s ISTDP are further integrated with the newest approaches within ISTDP, such as the attachment-based approach and other innovative intervention techniques that can quickly and effectively promote relief in clients with more challenging issues, after severe and early traumatization.
The overall purpose and goal of the IEDTA-certified 3-year core group in ISTDP are therefore to provide participants with strong competencies of these core principles of ISTDP and ways in which these insights and intervention techniques are expressed by Davanloo and others, so that they can learn to establishing a safe base while working with their clients highest capacity at the same time and from the first session across the psychopathological spectrum (Spectrum of psychoneurotic disorders and spectrum of fragile character structure). To achieve this goal, participants will be supported in finding their own unique way of practicing ISTDP therapy. Something that will be done, among other things, through training and recognizing one’s own healthy countertransferences (empathetic attunement and synchronicity) as well as recognizing, and taking care of one’s own unhealthy countertransferences, which, especially the more attachment-based approach in ISTDP, considers important and allows, if necessary, in supervision. Participants can therefore expect to graduate with strong clinical and personal competencies after participating in this programme.
The group size is limited to 5-7 participants to create as safe and optimal a learning space as possible.
Program Information
Program Name: ISTDP Core group training in Denmark with Betina Søbirk Svane
Location(s):Aarhus, Denmark
Tel: +45 50480947
Email: kontakt@betinasoebirksvane.dk
Web site: https://betinasoebirksvane.dk/3-aarig-efteruddannelse-i-istdp/
Responsible for Training
Lead trainer: Betina Søbirk Svane
Other trainers:Lead Trainer
Betina Søbirk Svane, MSc in psychology and social sciences, is a certified psychodynamic psychotherapist (MPF) educated at the Institute for Gestalt Analysis in Denmark. Betina has 15 years of experience as a psychotherapist in prisons and private organizations such as "Dialog mod Vold" and “Hjulsoegaardfonden”. Since 2018, she has been a full-time practitioner in her own psychotherapeutic clinic in Denmark.
Betina has completed core and advanced training in ISTDP with Robert Neborsky, Patricia Coughlin, Allan Abbass, and Joel Town. This includes, among other things, 10 years, 2 years, and 7 years of education, training, and supervision with Robert Neborsky, Patricia Coughlin, and Allan Abbass, respectively. She is an IEDTA-certified ISTDP teacher and supervisor, and has taught both nationally and internationally at workshops and conferences, including teaching and supervising ISTDP in core training groups in Helsinki and London since 2022 with Dr. Sharon Lewis of ISTDP London.
Other Trainers
Robert J. Neborsky and Sharon Lewis. Other experienced ISTDP colleagues will also be invited to contribute to specific topics during the three years of training.
Who Should Attend
All Core Training participants will need to provide certificates showing that they are either: (a) registered/licensed mental health professional: psychotherapist, psychologist or psychiatrist (b) at the end of the training/a degree programme in an accredited institution that leads to registered/licensed mental health professional: psychotherapist, psychologist or psychiatrist
Type of Training
Core Training
Other training offered: In addition to ISTDP training, I offer individual and small group supervision in person and online. I also offer workshops, seminar and conference presentations. Further information can be found at: www.betinasoebirksvane.dk
IEDTA Certified: Yes
Format of Training
The overall Structure, including teaching methods, learning methods, and certification:
The 3-year ISTDP core group training offered is built around a total of 15 modules. The 15 modules each consist of 2 days, of which 2 days each year will be half days spread over a month. In addition, as an extension of the last module, each year there will be a 2-day seminar with a specific topic focusing on the year's overall purpose and goals. A total of 36 days spread over 3 years.
The first year will focus on “the road to unlocking the unconscious”, where the tringle of conflict, the tringle of person and the central dynamic sequence (especially phases 1-3) as central management tools are in focus: Establishing an intrapsychic focus here and now from the start of a session and from the first session (also called the trial therapy), the analysis of the unconscious psychic defenses and defense work, the analysis of the unconscious anxiety and anxiety work. In addition, the psychopathological spectrum and establishing a secure attachment between client and therapist, while working with the client's highest capacity in each session. Here, we will also focus on, among other things, being able to see and recognize transference patterns as soon as they appear in the client-therapist relationship, as well as healthy and unhealthy countertransferences. The first year's seminar will therefore also focus on how to start strong – working with clients' highest capacity while establishing a secure base – from the first session (the trial therapy) to the end of treatment across the entire psychopathological spectrum. A focus that also leads to the final phases in the central dynamic sequence, including mobilization and breakthrough to emotions and/or partial or complete unlocking of the unconscious and thus the attachment traumas, which we will discuss in more detail in years 2 and 3.
The second and third years will again focus on “the road to unlocking the unconscious" based on the triangle of conflict, the triangle of person and the central dynamic sequence, but the focus will now be on all phases of the central dynamic sequence as well as on clients with more challenging and difficult issues such as ego-fragile clients and clients with a high degree of resistance. Here we will, among other things, discuss the importance of going slowly (the graduated approach), having patience, and accommodating oneself and the client when working with ego-fragile clients. Clients who most often use many unconscious primitive regressive defenses, such as projections and projective identifications, that you, as a therapist, can also identify with. Including as a therapist accepting that it takes time to build these clients' capacity to accommodate anxiety and to hold more and more complex emotions before they can feel (2-stage rocket). In addition, we will focus more on clients with a high degree of resistance who use more neurotic defenses, such as passivity, non-involvement, or even self-sabotage, where clients unconsciously invite the same or the opposite in the client-therapist relationship. Again, there will be a focus on being able to see and recognize transference patterns as soon as they appear in the client-therapist relationship, as well as healthy and unhealthy countertransferences. The second and third-year seminars will therefore focus on clients on the psychopathological spectrum who are ego-fragile and clients with a high degree of resistance. The final seminar in the third year will also focus on the completion of a therapy course, including when ending with clients is time-limited.
The teaching method and learning methods will be a mixture of theory and method review with demonstrations in plenary, where examination and close study of the teachers' own client videos will be used to visually support this learning. However, the main emphasis of the 3-year Core training in ISTDP will be placed on video supervision of one's own client videos. This involves - in addition to theoretical and methodological examination and close study of video clips that require supervision (as a general rule clips from the beginning of the session as well as one or more self-selected clips) - also the use of role-playing (client-therapist) to support learning and immersion in the methodological principles and intervention techniques in ISTDP. This will primarily take place between the teacher/supervisor and supervisee, and role-playing exercises (client-therapist) may be used in pairs or in plenary to support learning and immersion in specific issues that are relevant to the entire group. In the role play with the teacher/supervisor, there will be an opportunity to work on one's own unhealthy countertransferences, which the more attachment-based approach in ISTDP in particular considers important and provides an opportunity for, if necessary.
There will be various textbooks to be purchased, and a lot of articles will be sent to the participants before the start of each module. A more detailed description of the individual modules and a bibliography will be sent to the participants after registration.
Certificate of Education/certification - the 3-year ISTDP training program (also called ISTDP core group training) has been certified by the International Training Committee of IEDTA (The International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association). This means that the participants will receive a certificate after completing the training that reads: “Certificate of Completion – has successfully completed a core training Program Certified by The International Experiential Dynamic Therapy Association (IEDTA)”. 90% attendance of the 3-year training is required to receive the completion certificate.
Commitment Required:
A commitment to one year of training is required. This means that the participants choose and commit to the last 2 years of the 3-year Core training in ISTDP when the first year has been completed. This is done by mutual agreement with the teachers.
Learning Objectives
The participants will thus learn about:
• The metapsychology behind ISTDP and the method with the most important intervention techniques in ISTDP, including the newest approaches such as the attachment-based ISTDP (which incorporates more knowledge and research about attachment, the influence of trauma on the brain and emotion regulation, etc.) as well as other innovative intervention techniques that can quickly and effectively promote relief in clients with more challenging and difficult issues due to the traumatization has been more severe and occurred early.
• The conflict triangle, the person triangle, and the central dynamic sequence
• Feelings, including how to identify and recognize the bodily experience of core feelings/basic emotions and the components of an emotion
• Anxiety, including how to recognize, assess, and work with unconscious anxiety signals and regulate anxiety if necessary
• Defense, how to recognize, assess, and work with different unconscious defense mechanisms and dismantle the same defenses
• Establishing a conscious therapeutic working alliance, including how it is transformed into an unconscious therapeutic working alliance
• The psychopathological spectrum, including how to recognize, place and differentiate clients on the psychopathological spectrum regardless of diagnoses, as well as working with the same clients across the psychopathological spectrum
• Transference and countertransference
The participants will thus become better at:
• To gain strong skills in establishing an intrapsychic focus (inner problem/s) from the start of a session and from the first session (also called the trial therapy) that clients are willing to work with here and now with you as a therapist, where you use the conflict of triangle, the conflict of person and the central dynamic sequence as central management tools to intervene based on
• To gain extensive practice and experience in recognizing, assessing and working with various unconscious defense mechanisms, as well as to resolve the same defenses from the more neurotic defenses where clients have a high degree of resistance to closeness, are passive or uninvolved or self-destructive, where more neurotic/tactical projections can also occur in relation to you as a therapist, to clients who use more regressive defenses such as weepiness, hopelessness, somatization and the more primitive regressive defenses such as dissociation, splitting, projective identification, and where more intrusive projections are at play also in relation to you as a therapist, which in turn can lead to high anxiety in the client when resolved.
• To gain extensive practice and experience in recognizing, assessing and working with unconscious anxiety, including high anxiety, and regulating/working with the same anxiety in a graduated manner with clients, if necessary, so that the capacity to accommodate anxiety and hold more and more complex emotions increases before they can be felt, especially with clients with more challenging and complex issues.
• To gain extensive experience in recognizing, placing, and separating clients on the psychopathological spectrum regardless of diagnoses, as well as working with the same clients across the psychopathological spectrum
• To establishing a safe base while working with the client's highest capacity at all times and from the first session, which is really difficult to learn but nevertheless important to learn both to be able to establish a conscious and unconscious therapeutic working alliance, as well as to be able to place the client on the psychopathological spectrum from the start. This is to assess whether the client can dismantle defenses and intensify an emotional engagement in a rapid or graduated way (something that is gradually learned, and you are only expected to be able to do for 3 years)
• To gain extensive practice and experience in seeing and recognizing the unconscious signals from the unconscious (the transference patterns) as soon as they appear, in order to intensify an emotional commitment to "open up the unconscious" and thus the attachment traumas.
• Insight into being able to recognize your own healthy countertransferences (empathic attunement and synchronicity), so that they can be used constructively to establish a secure base and to work with the highest capacity, as quickly as possible. At the same time, you learn to accommodate and deal with the unhealthy countertransferences that can stand in the way of the very establishment of a secure attachment in the therapist-client relationship and working with the client's highest capacity.
Prerequisites for the participants:
- That the participants are interested in learning about their own defenses and their own anxiety, and thereby gain a great emotional capacity that they can use in there therapeutic work
- That the participants have the courage and desire to work with and take care of their own unhealthy countertransference, if necessary (Robert Neborsky's approach) possibly by means of their own therapy, and can see the importance of doing so
- That the participants record their therapies on video and include what they want to have supervised for each block. The client must at least be heard and seen on the recording
Fees
25.500 Danish kroner per year
Refund Policy:Payment due in full. No refunds.